Another life-long objective fulfilled… my very own Mark Levinson power amp. It’s the current model as well. In the flesh it is truly a beautiful beast. It weighs in a full 52kg of precision machined metals, high quality parts and components.

To say the improvement is night and day against my current Rotel RMB1066 is being conservative. There is just to comparison in terms of sound quality btw these two. Considering the price diff, that should be a given.

I’ve always felt that the mid-bass and lower mid from my DIY floorstander to be ‘lacking’. After countless times of xo tweaking, it never really sound right. Today, I finally discover the root of the problem - there was just not enough power to drive the scanspeaks speakers. With 400w into 8ohm and doubling to 800w at 4ohm, there is more than sufficient headroom to drive most speakers to unrealistic levels.

I can imagine myself thumbing through my fav CD collection over the next few weeks. There can be no regret getting this unit ;D