Auditioned one (already burned in) for a week or so.
Basically, it was like the reviewer said "really good solid state". Did nothing really special, but did nothing really bad (glare, grit etc) either. Would put it in the same class as the Bryston SST amps.
It lacked the "harmonic overtones" or "tube-like" naturalness that I have gotten to like. Solid state amps that give me more than a hint of that are ARC 100.2, Vecteur, and H20Audio to name a few.
There's a whole plethora of amps that sound worse to me than the Threshold, but that is another conversation.
IMHO & YMMV . . .
Basically, it was like the reviewer said "really good solid state". Did nothing really special, but did nothing really bad (glare, grit etc) either. Would put it in the same class as the Bryston SST amps.
It lacked the "harmonic overtones" or "tube-like" naturalness that I have gotten to like. Solid state amps that give me more than a hint of that are ARC 100.2, Vecteur, and H20Audio to name a few.
There's a whole plethora of amps that sound worse to me than the Threshold, but that is another conversation.
IMHO & YMMV . . .