Lacking Some Detail and Control.
The aim was to replace my Musical Fidelity KW500 with something physically smaller.
I paired the MPA-S125NC power amp with a Lehmann Black Cube headphone/preamp, which I know very well with various headphones and have for a short time used it as a pre-amp combined with a class A/B power amp.
I initially just listened to music to give it a fair test, after a couple of evenings listening, these were my thoughts. Pros: wide soundstage; pretty good instrument positioning; fairly musical / Negs: lack of detail in bass and generally getting a bit muddled in complex layered tracks.
I switched to some test tracks:
1) Elbow, Asleep in the Back. This trips up many systems, the sibilance on this track can make it almost unlistenable if it is not well controlled. Not a total failure here, but was struggling a bit.
2) Clearlake, Lido. A layered album. Struggling to keep it from becoming messy.
3) Animal Collective, Feels. Again struggling to keep control of everything, sounded too harsh.
4) Pepe Deluxé Queen of the Wave. Could quite get the power and majestic and theatrical quality out.
There were other test tracks, but the above were the ones to highlight what I believe are the issues.
Conclusion. Just not good enough to replace the KW500. Perhaps this is a bit of an unfair comparison as the KW500 was a lot more expensive. However, I do not feel I can live with the MPA-S125NC as a main system component.
Cet avis a été posté pour AUDIOPHONICS MPA-S125NC RCA Amplificateur de Puissance Class D Stéréo NCore NC122MP 2x125W 4 Ohm The aim was to replace my Musical Fidelity KW500 with something physically smaller.
I paired the MPA-S125NC power amp with a Lehmann Black Cube headphone/preamp, which I know very well with various headphones and have for a short time used it as a pre-amp combined with a class A/B power amp.
I initially just listened to music to give it a fair test, after a couple of evenings listening, these were my thoughts. Pros: wide soundstage; pretty good instrument positioning; fairly musical / Negs: lack of detail in bass and generally getting a bit muddled in complex layered tracks.
I switched to some test tracks:
1) Elbow, Asleep in the Back. This trips up many systems, the sibilance on this track can make it almost unlistenable if it is not well controlled. Not a total failure here, but was struggling a bit.
2) Clearlake, Lido. A layered album. Struggling to keep it from becoming messy.
3) Animal Collective, Feels. Again struggling to keep control of everything, sounded too harsh.
4) Pepe Deluxé Queen of the Wave. Could quite get the power and majestic and theatrical quality out.
There were other test tracks, but the above were the ones to highlight what I believe are the issues.
Conclusion. Just not good enough to replace the KW500. Perhaps this is a bit of an unfair comparison as the KW500 was a lot more expensive. However, I do not feel I can live with the MPA-S125NC as a main system component.
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