Jeff of Arabica
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Showme,
Absolutely not. The fact of the matter is, you have multiple sources, like many of us. No matter what amp you purchase, you will have to deal with a switch of some type, whether it be internal or external. I have a Decware ZSB in front of my Ultra and ZMA. The way Steve designs these ZSB switches is minimalistic. The goal, in a “World of No Constraints,” is obviously to reduce the number of connections and the lengths of runs. But then reality crushes all of our hopes and dreams. Most of us have multiple sources, and most of us need more than 6 inches of interconnects between components. This 25th Anniversary still improves the conditions for the signal by taking away an otherwise additional lengthy run internally from the RCA inputs to the input tube sockets.
As Steve mentioned in his last post, this is an amp of no compromises, regardless of how marginal of an improvement each design element offers. If I am reading his mind correctly, he created an amp that when he goes to sleep at night (sometimes very late due to listening to this very amp) he can rest comfortably knowing that there was nothing more worth doing do it. Once he hands us this amp, all we can do is attempt to feed it with nothing but greatness in source material, allied components, interconnects, proximity, room treatments, power and everything else. But those elements have nothing to do with Steve or the design of this 25th Anniversary amplifier, and everything to do with us doing our part once the amp is in our hands.
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