i have the attessa steaming amp , i have a 5.1 system in my living room with a yamaha rxa 1080 , was finding that for 2 channel music the yamaha did not excite me , i had some kef ls50 meta for my fronts so i bought the attessa streamer and hooked it to the pre outs on the yamaha and wow , what a difference , l love it , after a while i thought about trying different speakers and i bought monitor audio gold 100 5g in beautiful piano ebony and the difference again , they are superb , and as the same company they where made for each other , they have more base than the kefs , i am using a svs 3000 micro hooked up to them , used to have a bluesound node but sold it as built into the roksan , but it sound much better with the roksan as its a better dac ... never thought much about the volume as you are right you have to crank it up to get real volume ( just thought i was old and a little deaf ) the menu is not the easiest , spent half the day when first got it over a year ago getting it on av bypass , its as heavy as my yamaha home receiver , its had some great reviews , i love it , its not perfect , remote a little cheap , volume nob feels weird pushing it while trying to turn , im in the uk and get 5 year warranty on the roksan and 5 years on the monitor audio speakers so you can tell they are built to last ......................... the 100 golds are reduced as they are being phased out as new model coming so a good buy at present , i paid £950 ( 1180 dollar ) thing they were about £1650 before reduction ......... was going to spend more and buy Bowers & Wilkins 705 S2 , glad i did not now ...............
I have the same speakers, but use a Astin/trew AT2-2100 Integrated Amplifier, I sold the MF m5si in favour of the former . I had a demo of the Attessa and I really like the sound overall, I may be tempted to go with the power amp..
Hey! Great and honest review! Putting aside the caveats you just mentioned... Did you like the overall sound quality? I'm considering this amp and could let pass the caveats if the sound is up to Par. Thanks
Sorry to hear that the amp didn't fit your bill. Hopefully you can return it or exchange it. Not in a market myself, but yep the "auto reset" volume would be a big turn down for me. Also, this is not crazy expensive but it's definitely not a cheap amp, so that cheap remote is also a no-no It feels like an afterthought where they had to scramble to find an OEM to be able to put a remote in the box. Not necessarily a big deal on some devices where the remote is just an extra but in this case you basically NEED it to use the amp properly so a little sad that they didn't seem to put as much care in the remote as they did in the product. Cheers from France.
wow, that's a lot of work to convert analog to digital then filter it out to analog output? Hopefully you can find some solutions to this to change sound signature you are looking for
PS Audio Sprout does volume reset too. And yes, annoying. 😊 An app for an amp is just going too far. What happens when the company goes out of business? 😢
Frustrating , give over , I have had the streamer for over 2 years with the cdt , it's a doddle to use , sounds fantastic with my neat ministra speakers
i have the attessa steaming amp , i have a 5.1 system in my living room
with a yamaha rxa 1080 , was finding that for 2 channel music the yamaha
did not excite me , i had some kef ls50 meta for my fronts so i bought
the attessa streamer and hooked it to the pre outs on the yamaha and
wow , what a difference , l love it , after a while i thought about trying
different speakers and i bought monitor audio gold 100 5g in beautiful
piano ebony and the difference again , they are superb , and as the same company
they where made for each other , they have more base than the kefs ,
i am using a svs 3000 micro hooked up to them ,
used to have a bluesound node but sold it as built into the roksan ,
but it sound much better with the roksan as its a better dac ...
never thought much about the volume as you are right you have
to crank it up to get real volume ( just thought i was old and a little deaf )
the menu is not the easiest , spent half the day when first got it over a year
ago getting it on av bypass , its as heavy as my yamaha home receiver ,
its had some great reviews , i love it , its not perfect , remote a little cheap ,
volume nob feels weird pushing it while trying to turn , im in the uk
and get 5 year warranty on the roksan and 5 years on the monitor audio
speakers so you can tell they are built to last .........................
the 100 golds are reduced as they are being phased out as new model coming
so a good buy at present , i paid £950 ( 1180 dollar ) thing they were about
£1650 before reduction .........
was going to spend more and buy Bowers & Wilkins 705 S2 , glad i did not now ...............
I have the same speakers, but use a Astin/trew AT2-2100 Integrated Amplifier, I sold the MF m5si in favour of the former . I had a demo of the Attessa and I really like the sound overall, I may be tempted to go with the power amp..
Hey! Great and honest review! Putting aside the caveats you just mentioned... Did you like the overall sound quality? I'm considering this amp and could let pass the caveats if the sound is up to Par. Thanks
Sorry to hear that the amp didn't fit your bill.
Hopefully you can return it or exchange it.
Not in a market myself, but yep the "auto reset" volume would be a big turn down for me.
Also, this is not crazy expensive but it's definitely not a cheap amp, so that cheap remote is also a no-no
It feels like an afterthought where they had to scramble to find an OEM to be able to put a remote in the box. Not necessarily a big deal on some devices where the remote is just an extra but in this case you basically NEED it to use the amp properly so a little sad that they didn't seem to put as much care in the remote as they did in the product.
Cheers from France.
Thanks for the comments
wow, that's a lot of work to convert analog to digital then filter it out to analog output? Hopefully you can find some solutions to this to change sound signature you are looking for
PS Audio Sprout does volume reset too. And yes, annoying. 😊 An app for an amp is just going too far. What happens when the company goes out of business? 😢
I agree
Frustrating , give over , I have had the streamer for over 2 years with the cdt , it's a doddle to use , sounds fantastic with my neat ministra speakers