It sounds lively, dynamic, powerful and quite fast. The result of all this must surely be below par, right? Well, I wouldn’t blame you for thinking otherwise and I did too, expecting the amp to sound sluggish, soft and undynamic. Finally, there isn’t a single audiophile components inside. Although, the latter are officially placed outside of the signal path when in neutral position. In addition, there are a whole row of bog-standard potentiometers in the signal path such as volume, balance and tone controls. From there another bunch of wires go to the output terminals. From there a bunch of wires go to the output transformers which, incidentally, are placed at the front of the amp. The output transistors are in the middle of the amp.
#SIGNAL PATH MUSIC FULL#
Very expensive but purists may not want to look inside, because it is full of very long wires. I’ll explain by taking some components and situations from practice as an example.įor instance, I had a McIntosh MA6900 integrated amp. And it is very understandable to think that powercables, as well as cabling inside an extensionblock, should be as short as possible.īut these are all assumptions that I feel are only relatively true. You’d also be forgiven to think that any power amp that doesn’t have its speaker terminals soldered straight to the circuit board, is a compromise. One might think that long cables inside audio components would add noise and edginess, or softness, depending on the cabling used.
This is sane enough thinking and also true to a large extent, but it is also relative. Among audiophiles, there is a common school of thought which says that signal paths only add distortion and noise and degrade performance and as such should be kept at minimum length.
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