Soulution 710 Power Amplifier

The Soulution 710 is one of those rare audio products that has ascended to iconic status. It is, in a word, legend. The awards and accolades this amplifier has garnered over the last few years are far too numerous to list here, but easily researchable. The literature, including the owners manual are all available at the Soulution website. Read the reviews of this amplifier on line, and you will certainly understand the class of this product. It is regarded by many as the finest solid-state amplifier in the world, period.

As you will see in my pictures, I was using this amplifier in an 2 Channel + 7.1 set up, as there is a little known, but highly useful feature of the amp - and that is that it can accommodate both balanced (audiophile preamp) and single ended (AVR or SSP) front R & L inputs, and they can be switched on the front panel, between a 2 channel preamp and an AVR, in any configuration of RCA and XLR connections. This is a fabulous "flexibility" feature but hardly overshadows the simply awesome audio performance of this amplifier.
This amp is the fastest, most powerful, most musical amplifier that I'ver heard, and I'm sad to sell it, but I simply do not have the space for it in a new, smaller home.

I have all the original things - manual, power cord (worth about $1400), shipping crate, etc.

This is "last amplifier you'll ever own" amp.. and I'm hopeful it will go to a good owner as it will be spectacular for life.

Some excerpts from the Stereophile review. The TAS one is even better. :-)

Soulution pulls a fast one
But superb measurements don't always yield superb sound. Amplifiers designed to produce vanishingly low distortion can sound cold and uninvolving. That's how I felt about the Halcros. There was no there there.
While the Soulution 710's sound won't appeal to everyone, as demonstrated by the reaction of a few visitors here, it will appeal to anyone who values unparalleled transparency, startling transient cleanness, and a level of overall refinement that easily surpassed that of any other amplifier I have heard. The 710 gripped my Wilson Audio MAXX 3 speakers as has no other amplifier in my experience, acting and reacting with effervescent speed. A few visitors were reminded of Spectral's overall sound, but I have no experience there.
Usually, the tradeoff in transients is between fast and sharp or slow and smooth, with the former usually becoming edge and etch, the latter soft and boring—a choice between wet blanket and blocks of carved ice. Settling on something usually requires making sonic peace with one side or the other.
Yet the 710 was faster and smoother, and faster and sharper, and just plain fast. I thought I'd break it in and get acquainted by playing tracks from the Sooloos server using the Playback Designs DAC, expecting the Soulution to sound at first sharp and perhaps a bit ragged. Instead, it immediately seemed to transform "Red Book" CDs, producing an unusual serenity based on the opposite of soft and smooth, and an equally unusual (for me) sense of musical engagement caused by heightened transient clarity and speed—the kind that usually produces a tradeoff resulting in etch and edge, of which there was neither. The speed with which the 710 handled the entire audioband (never mind to DC, and to infinity and beyond) seemed constant, producing a heightened sense of coherent wholeness that felt like a stream of rapidly moving pulses, with no lag time or residue between events.
Put all of that together and I heard, from "Red Book" CDs, background blackness, three-dimensionality, image solidity, and diminishment of grain and smear that left me wondering whether some of my griping about "Red Book" CD was really about the inability of slower, less coherent electronics to keep up with the signal.
Subsequent spins of the Wretches & Jabberers LP using the Classé CA-M600 monoblocks and the Music Reference RM-200 Mk.II tube amp proved the worths of the recording's engineering and production, and of the quality of the electronics used to play it. While both the Musical Fidelity and the Music Reference had considerable strengths, neither could touch the 710's speed, purity, transparency, three-dimensionality, and "black" backdrops. In terms of the portrayal of musical events minus tacked-on "electronica," the 710 topped anything else I'd heard.
Conclusions
Spend some time listening to live music and you'll be forced to conclude that there are no perfect audio products. In some ways, however, there are better and sometimes (but rarely) best audio products—and there are definitely audio products that raise the bar and break new ground. These are the rare types.
The Soulution 710 is one of the latter. Designer Christopher Schürmann has definitely met the goals set by Cyrill Hammer and Roland Manz and probably gone beyond them. The company principals realized the design by, apparently, sparing no expense in its manufacture. The Soulution 710 is impeccably built, and in terms of the sonic goals of ultrawide bandwidth, ultralow distortion, speed, and coherence, it succeeds completely. Now that I have spent some time listening to it, I don't find it difficult to understand why the amp has won a strong following, as well as the hearts and currency of well-heeled audiophiles around the world.
The Soulution 710 is a technical and sonic achievement not to be denied. Is it, or is any 130/260Wpc amplifier, worth the cost of a very nice automobile? As the owner of a turntable that costs about 25% less than my first home did, who am I to talk? But as long as I have the soapbox, I have to say "Yes."
Nor is it hard to understand why not every audiophile or music lover will be on board for the long journey, despite what is, in many ways, the finest sound you're likely ever to hear from any piece of electronics—and what I'm sure will be impeccable measurements. However, I guarantee that if you jump on for a few stops, at an audio show, in a dealer's demo room, or in a friend's listening room, you'll have the time of your life.