@stereo5
I thought I should say something here regarding the new Michi products. First of all, all new Michi products only bear Michi logo and you won’t see any Rotel name on them. And these new Michi products are designed and built on another different level than say Rotel or NAD or Marantz to name a few. You should see what’s inside those Michi gears. Even the new Michi stereo preamp (with onboard DAC) is equipped with two separate transformers power supplies, one for its analog circuitry and the other is for its digital circuitry since this preamp has onboard DAC. And all the components parts that go into all these new Michi amps & preamp are high grade components and all the units are double copper plated to isolate vibrations and prevent from other mechanical & electrical interferences as well as EMI/RFI. And all parts & components are very well shielded.
One of my audiophile buddy who happens to be a pro high end hifi audio reviewer for one well known hifi publication has recently heard the new Michi monoblock amps + stereo preamp combo driving the B&W 800 D3 and he told me they were very impressive. The music was sooo effortless highly musical sounding gears very smooth and excels in PRAT and other areas. He had a chance to compare them with the McIntosh MC611 monoblock amps + C47 preamp (the one that has onboard DAC) driving the same B&W 800 D3 and the new Michi monoblocks/pre combo were better in all areas. The new Michi monoblock amps retail for exact same price as the McIntosh MC611 monoblock amps which are $14k/pair, but the new Michi preamp costs less than the C47 pre but sounded better than the C47 both when used as a straight analog pre and digital pre (using the onboard DAC). They swapped back and forth between these two preamps with each of these monoblock amps.
So hope this would break your stereotype against Rotel. And again these new Michi products are on different level than the regular Rotel gears. They aren’t in the same league at all, they aren’t the same period and they don’t even bear Rotel logo on them. It’s like Lexus vs Toyota in automobile industry.
The Michi products are designed and built to compete in high end audio world and compete directly with those high end brands eg McIntosh, Classe, Levinson, Pass, Simaudio Moon, etc, etc.
