In partial answer to Kevziek's latest post, Tora's post shows me that the Rowland sound may have changed. The early Rowland amps, the Models 7 and 5, were fairly warm sounding to me, big, bold and robust, giving a sound that Lewis Lipnick in Stereophile described (and I think correctly) as giving an up-close perspective of the musical event, as opposed to Krell amps of the time, which gave you a picture from further back in the audience (maybe this meant that the Rowland did not convey spatial cues from the hall as well as the Krell did?). I would never call them lean by any means, but I would say they were intensely musical, conveying the emotion of the music very well. Interesting to see Tora's description, which seems quite different from the older models. I have not heard any of the models since the Model 8, so I'm not qualified to offer any thoughts on them.
