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“Late in the review process I brought the F7 over to a fellow audiophile’s home to try with a pair of Quad 57 electrostatic speakers. The sound was vivid and palpably realistic. I’m not a fan of Quad speakers, they can sound uptight and dynamically limited, but the F7 and Quad 57s were delicious together. Putting the F7 aside, and returning to the owner’s much more expensive 280-watts-per-channel ASR Emitter II amplifier, the sound was brighter and bass definition improved, but that uptight Quad sound was back. The F7 connected the musical dots better!”

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“When I paired this model with the Focal Elear ($999) and my Cowon Plenue M used as a DAC ($899) I’d experienced one of those “Hifi Moments” we audiophiles hunt for years to find. In the track titled In my Fathers House, by an artist called Eric Bibb, album titled Spirit & The Blues…I remembered why I was an audiophile for the first time all year. Of course, after using the Burson, I had swapped to a much more expensive amp to re-experience it, but what is important here is that it started on the Soloist MK2 first. There is a specific point in this track where a new, secondary artist sings into only the stereo-left channel, which caused me to literally jerk my head to the side to see if someone was standing beside me trying to speak to me suddenly.

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“With the Audible Illusions 3A preamp and Acoustic Zen Absolute Silver interconnect, the amp became a little more supple, tracking the music more closely. With the Convergent Renaissance line stage, I heard a substantial improvement in transparency – at the cost of an additional $10,000, another set of interconnects, another power cord, a crowded equipment rack, and loss of the remote control. ”