The Sound
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Good. How do those 300 Norwegian Watts sound? Yeah. What can we say? Brute? Powerful? Insanely controlled? Dynamic? Go ahead and say it.
Actually, everything is. The Hegel is a particularly beautiful machine. An all-in-one that sounds like separate components. If you had blindfolded me, I would have just guessed there’s an all-in-one integrated device.
It doesn’t matter what we do with it. Refined vocals? That’s fine. Movie? Pop it! Live work with 13 lufs dynamics? Come on, let’s go. House? Yummy! Pop? All right!
It’s almost boring how good this thing is..
Signature
The signature is almost identical to the Hegel Röst. The biggest difference is the headroom of the Hegel H590. Nothing seems too much. Hard blows… give it to me… no compression audible. We take a dB-meter and see that the 101 dB is tapped. Unbelievable. And without effort, hardness or fierceness.
Hot Chocolate
But if we then go back to human volumes: refinement. Heat, music. The Hegel transforms into a lovely partner. The warm blanket with hot chocolate as you just step inside, soaked from the rain after a tough job in the garden.
This all sounds exaggerated. But unfortunately, it’s not. We’re seriously impressed with this machine. All that quality from one piece of equipment. The step from the reference set to this is not a big one. No punishment. No renunciation and longing for the end of the review. No, this is just very, very good.
