![]() The Compact 845 inspired me to audition some new LPs and a few old ones. The Compact 845 ran hot, and so did the music that flowed from its mighty triodes. Music had energy, speed, dynamics, punch, and depth. ![]() Against this backdrop, music blossomed, consistently creating a you-are-there, live-performance quality that made my DeVore Fidelity O/96s resemble Quad ESL-57s. The 845 wowed me with its immense soundstage, which I attribute partly to its aforementioned silence: the long decay of reverb tails contrasting that outer-spaceĀblackness each enhancing the other. I had to push my reference DeVore Fidelity O/96 loudspeakers back 6" to optimize coherence and clarity once I did that, the system sang. It was a natural fit for the Mastersound. I began my audition with the two-way DeVore Fidelity O/96 loudspeaker (footnote 1), a rich, warm, incisive speaker that uses a 1" silk-dome tweeter and a 10" paper-cone woofer and sounds good with every amplifier and in every room I've heard it in. ![]()
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