Michael Brooks

Hi Victor,

As you know I’ve now had the amp for about two weeks.
 
Initially I have to say I was disappointed. I had to run the amp at about 50 (the max volume is 75 I believe) and music sounded disjointed and thin.
 
I put that impression down to two things. I was surprised that the amp had such a long burn in time. I now find that I have to turn it down to about 38 to 40 and there is plenty of volume and the audio spectrum is becoming fuller. The amp is now much more musical.
 
I am amazed that it is able to extract information from CD’s that I have never noticed before. I have listened to a particular track by the Shadows called Spider Juice for about 37 years. There is a middle 8 section where I’ve never been quite certain what is going on--there are two lead guitars playing different melodies that fit together. I have always heard the sum but I could never pick out the parts. Played it through the Primare and I had an aha moment. I could discern what was going on in the left and right channels. This is a track I had listened to on good headphones. But I had never heard the recording with such clarity.
 
Now I must admit that this enhanced resolution is good and bad. It’s good to hear the sound stage and everything that was actually put down by the artist—some CD’s now sound sublime. But it means that some songs that were old friends have  ... well changed. I have to get used to hearing everything with cleaner definition. I don’t listen to CD’s in the car any more because they now sound poor. There is a cost in having one’s ears better educated!
 
Some of the CD’s I had thought sounded good through the Denon AVR now sound bland—Carly Simon’s Have You Seen Me Lately now sounds a bit bland. And some CD’s that I thought were really ordinary contain hidden gems all over the CD—Diana Krall’s CD’s, Chris Rea’s Auberge CD and Joe Satriani’s later CD’s are now much more musical.
 
Above all, I now can understand the lyrics much clearer.
 
My guess (hope) is that the amp will continue to improve sonically. And that’s good because I am really enjoying listening to music at the moment.
 
Happy New Year
 
Michael

Jeanine Styler

We couldn’t be more pleased with the quality of the stereo system and the service from Victor at Stereophonic! The sound,the technology and the quality is fantastic. Victor you know your stuff!  You are willing to spend time with customers and really help with “what we wanted”. Thanks for all the help and support. I’m having an absolute ball!
Jeanine & Susan

Ruth Carey

Hi Victor
my delivery arrived on  Friday and I have set it up by myself today and I am more than happy with the quality, I had forgotten how great real music can sound, my husband says I need a sub woofer now! Looks like he is hooked now. Oh no, what have I done!!!!!
Thank you for supporting me in my decision, I felt your advice was genuine and not just to get a sale. It was a pleasure doing business.
Thanks Ruth

john hall-freeman

Dear Vincent
Must admit never purchased a major piece of hi-fi before as a blind unheard product and from a company that is on the other side of the continent.[in fact living here in Perth we get airmail and packages usually much quicker from the US and Asia than the eastern states]
The box arrived safely in the hands of the most genial delivery guy that I have ever met and I invited him in for coffee and choc bikkies etc.
Unpacking I found that the amplifier was all black [but because it looked so good I was not going to complain about that] the amplifier is COMPLETLY different in specifications than that of your web site it in fact it has the more powerful KT88 than the specified EL34's and had a real PHONO MM cartridge input rather than the 4 aux sockets as published unfortunatly it did NOT have the tape output that I needed,but that whole problem has been solved by purchasing a NAD usb/phono preamp with a suitable feed for turntable and my Reel to REAL recording system that also includes my MACBOOKPRO working direct from it's USB.

Hooking up with cables to the system was a breeze and everything was working smooth as silk like the sound of Miles Davis on the 50th anniversary edition boxed edition of Kind of Blue as well as the latest tracks from Keith Jarrett and various other stuff from pop to classical music etc.[Dug up a first few copies of the first stereo records ever issued the AUDIO FIDELITY label albums from 1957 they sounded better in fact than stuff recently recorded DIRECT TO DISC.

The only downside to the whole purchase is that there exists a MAJOR function key on the remote control that is not duplicated on the actual product eg the triode/ ultralinear circuit configuration switch so it means I have to keep that MOTE safe in fact I must admit that I hate that sort of thing.
As for the SOUND I must admit that I'm too GOB-SMACKED with pleasure to make any sensible comment and neither are some of my MATES after a few bottles of our local MARGERET RIVER bottles of wine compared to the KT88 bottles and these guys have some REALLY serious bucks tied up in this hobby and they it was a pleasure of a night.

I'm very pleased with my purchase and of course your service,but I have since found out from my son who has been living in the PRC of CHINA for the past 5 years and put quite  a few bucks in the ring for my new h-fi that in fact the factory for SPARK ELECTRONICS is only 2 klicks away from his apartment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and of course could of bought it wholesale but we are ALL pleased the way it has worked out .

YOURS FAITHFULLY HAVING TO MUCH FUN WITH MY PURCHASE john hall-freeman

Tony Jennings

I purchased a pair of noise cancelling headphones from Stereophonic on Monday lunchtime and they were in my office by Tuesday morning. Great service. You will definately see me again.

Trisha Maretoni

I just have to say to the team at Stereophonic, thank you for not making me feel like a fool with all my silly questions. It was a real pleasure and I love my 2 channel system.

Grant Grimes

My wife and I thank you for your support for helping us set our new Multi Room Sonos System. We appreciate your gesture for hanging back after work so you could help us over the phone for over an hour.

Frank Masone

Just had to say thanks for my new system and for your patience with all the different variety of components we listened to.Well done Stereophonic