Stellavox Introduces a New State of the Art Amplifier IDEM Monoblocks

[Dierkx1]

factory would be choice #1 for sure.

of course . Herve and team have always been responsive.

 

[pk_LA]

of course . Herve and team have always been responsive.

I assume this is sarcasm given the reports around Dartzeel?

 

[Dierkx1]

I assume this is sarcasm given the reports around Dartzeel?

I won't speak about what others may or may not have experienced. My interactions have been uniformly positive.

As a native New Yorker, I judge myself to have a refined sense of sarcasm, but none employed in my statement.

 

[Mike Lavigne]

I assume this is sarcasm given the reports around Dartzeel?

no, it's not at all.

from my own knowledge about darTZeel owners, and checking just tonight with friends who are in touch with many more dart customers and Herve; at least in this part of the world, Herve has been very available for service and support these last 2 years. don't want to oversell the realities, but current dart owners are covered. i know dart owners doing preamp upgrades from Mk1 to Mk2 right now.

you are not going to see anyone talk about what darTZeel is doing until darTZeel itself does public things to talk about. it's on them to show activity. not on their customers to convince anyone. but when questions get asked about darTZeel then the dart nation living with the product can answer them.

 

[gleeds]

well....er.....there is the very first post i wrote about the 468's in 2019. i'm pretty decisive about it. tubes. and i've wrote it many times since in one way or another.

and from the bigger picture of darTZeel feedback over the years they are pretty much recognized as the solid state amp for tube lovers. enough of that tube liquidity and nuance to hold onto. without the tube hassle and with lower noise and more linear powerful bass. can scale without losing cohesion or getting more tubey and excess coloration. music has color and that is not inherently bad. but it can be.

as far neutrality; the classic solid state sound might be sonic neutrality, but not musical neutrality. or as Peter might say, not classically natural sound. natural sound to me is a touch of tubes. but staying in the neutral zone. the Tenor OTL's were there too. my system is balanced for my darTZeel's to disappear and not be prominent.....but bringing in another more neutral amp does highlight the differences.

as far as the Stellavox and it's neutrality, the amplifier i have had in my system it most reminds of "so far" is the Berning 211/845.....but with balls, and that can scale and control my speakers. read my posts on this thread for my comments. a very very neutral OTL topology (to the degree that i understand it).

so between the Tenor OTL's and the Bering 211/845 OTL's to me both the darts and the Stella fit into that reference sound for me and also into the natural neutrality thing too. provisionally at least so far regarding the Stella's. it has to play out.

The 458s (the model I have listened to for hundreds of hours) also used EA MM-7s, which were delivered along with the 458 and 18NS preamplifiers just after Mike got his. The 458s delivered nearly unlimited power and a beguiling single-ended purity simultaneously.

Recently, I spent the day with Robert Harley and his custom silver transformer Berning 845s, driving the Alysvox Michalangelos, which are now added to my list of singular amplification devices. Mike, since the Evolution Acoustics MM-7s are rated at 97db efficiency, the Bernings may be the perfect marriage of neutrality and SE magic in one package. In Robert's system, I heard a lack of distortion that at first felt soft/muted but then settled in. After about 30 minutes, I realised the system was producing music with a purity in the high frequencies I had never experienced before. The preamplifier was the well-known CH Precision 10 series preamplifier, which was instructive.