It’s defo the reason to buy this and the looks too and well made.

Couldn’t agree more

Thanks Gary, what speakers do you run with it?

@@13thnotehifireviews7 at the moment wharfdale linton 85th

How do you like the dac in the cd player? Also have the amp150 .. was think about picking up the cd player

​@@ericp8094I own CDD and Amp, and I love it... It's an very good and solid sounding CD Player/DAC. Lot better than the build in DAC in the DIA models. For me, the CDD is all I need. Endgame Player for me and the most important device in my system...

It is a great amp. I personally slightly prefer my Hegel but it’s a speaker matching thing and the two are competitive to each other but it’s also slightly less money. You’ve bought with confidence.

@@13thnotehifireviews7 just noticed and saw your review of the Buchardt i150 amp. In your opinion how do the Gato AMP 150 and the Buchardt compare?

I’m sorry if it wasn’t clear. Anything you want me to explain happy too. But thanks so much for the vote of confidence on being interesting. I do try and make it interesting to watch and I’m always trying to make the presentation better because the graphics and videography come easy now, but improving presentation is always something to improve on. 😀

@@13thnotehifireviews7 No, you have nothing to improve on. You are brilliant!

Cool, what else did you try and pit them against?

I had a Marantz pm 14 mk2 because I had a wonderful amplifier for 21 years... it was too old then I tried the Audio Fly 3, it was good but the bass was missing and the mids were too weak.. Hegel 190 was good but The Gato 150 is in a different league and is simply awesome. The bass, mid and high everything is much better. I have remained loyal to Dynaudio for 32 years

Wow thanks so much Irene 😀🎶🔊

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Glad it was helpful!

Thanks very much

Thanks Hamid. Will check that one out and thanks for suggesting 🔉👍🎼😀

Thanks very much Ron, I’ve been suggesting to Hegel to make a H390 less dac and digital inputs and streaming as it could get people onto the powerful Hegel amps for less cash. 😀

I read Emotiva is servicing Gato audio as well. I believe Emotiva is in TN

It’s part of a longer conversation on patreon about your tastes, system synergy and what the Gato might bring, then all contextualised with my thoughts about value for money and as I do further system advice on Patreon, I can’t answer on KZfaq. Plus if I want to commercialise this channel I can’t say what I prefer on KZfaq. I’ve done this for far too long and it means I don’t get products, I take all the risk and consumers who don’t reward me benefit. They may also have different tastes and opinions to me. No KZfaqrs can give purely customer advice on KZfaq as to what all their preferences are. It is going to be competitive to certain requirements as I got across but there are fine margins too. I’m sure you can understand.

I didn’t. You do with the h390 Hegel - from the toroid , but that’s normal

@@13thnotehifireviews7 It sounds to me as the toroid too. The sound from the woofer is the same as the amp. Mind you I have to put my ear to the woofer and case of the amp.

@@CedricRachmad it’s normally dc on the ac with humming toroids, or it could be a ground loop. Using a turntable and not grounded…..get a simple dc blocker if it annoys you or if drowned out by music, why worry.

No ground loop. I guess its the DC. I’ll play around with cables and maybe a dc blocker. Not too worried but if it might affect SQ, why not fix it. Thnx for the tip!

No, my 150 AE is dead silent.

Don’t know but I know the two owners did come from the hifi industry to form gato themselves

I’m happy to help people who invest in me but it is not right I take all the risk,

It is hard to design hifi to look good and it’s all personal , but I think Gato audio need to be congratulated on being bold enough to come up with a design that is different from the many square hifi boxes.

it is like art - if everybody likes it, it cannot be art.

I chosen the 150 AE because the sound. The good design was a bonus.