Musical Fidelity Elektra E11 Amplifier

Lately, we've had to interact more often with Musical Fidelity's extravagant keg blocks. The same amplifier, more traditional in appearance, almost completely repeats the previous model E10 of the Elektra series. This series is the initial one in the company's production program. It lacks not only tone controls, loudness, headphone output and remote control, which is also found in other companies, but also a balance control. That is, the amplifier operates in DIRECT mode all the time and does not tempt the owner to experiment with the frequency response. To listen to high-quality "compacts", which were created by professionals (musicians and sound engineers), a linear path is enough. Moreover, the CD-player can be Elektra. And in order not to distract the owner from a pleasant pastime at all, the company provided for the possibility of connecting only one pair of acoustic systems.

In the sound of Musical Fidelity, you seem to see two sides of the same coin at the same time, it attracts and alarms, just as sometimes you want to hug a beautiful girl, but something in her keeps you from doing so. The amplifier easily copes with the most complex fragments in terms of dynamics; large and sharp sound contrasts do not present any particular difficulty for it. Similarly, a circus juggler is admired by tossing heavy weights without visible effort. The improved dynamics also had a beneficial effect on the naturalness of high-frequency transmission, however, the price for all this was the deterioration in noise characteristics, which is more noticeable, of course, at the maximum maximum positions of the volume control. As if to get to the top of the musical cliff faster, its slope is roughened with noise processing, rather than perfectly smooth. The stage is well built, which you look at a little from above, maybe not from the balcony of the concert hall, but from the rows of the amphitheater. Slightly staccato, contrastingly defined bass indicates that the amplifier can tame high-Q speakers that have a prolonged aftersound. Although a strongly noticeable effect, of course, should not be expected.