Heed Obelisk Si
Clearnly defined spacesrooms, unbelievably delicate tone colours, sharply outlined structures, and a good keen sense for subtle dynamics, accents, delays and nuances in the music.
Especially good nice here, particularly just because it is so rarely combined in this price range, the Obelisk Si is something of may well be a 'feingeist', a sophisticate. On the other hand, it is definitely no, a flatterer: however it is not. While it shows hardly any trace of artificial 'warmth', but it is not remotely 'cold' sounding at all, either. It can emphatically conveys the difference between a mature and a young voice or between a baroque violin and a refurbished Stradivarius. The Obelisk Si brings you right up to the music: it maintains is very close by the music. It keeps its tension arcs of tension, tfollows racks its cantilena and , bounces with its rhythms.
One would think that Most certainly, the amplification of an audio signal is a fairly straightforward and rather technical task, job without too much mystery. But this amplifier does it, as if it kneows something more about it. How else could it render the most intricate tiniest sonic details of such a complex piece as like the Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Bartók, played by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra? How else could it project the sound of the strings of Pepe Justicia's flamenco guitar from the speakers with such a sweeping impact and so explosivelyness out of the speakers? How else could it make let Peter Kooy's voice float in the room floating with such euphoric optimism, calm and comfortassuranceing, when he sings Bach's the aria "Schlummert ein" from Bach's cantata Ich habe genug, BWV 82 (Ich habe genug)? How? Simple: because it does it consistently serves the music. The Obelisk Si is its a brilliant mediator of it. The worldwide 'cult' is fully justified."
