Black Op

In Military, Black Ops, are those that go undetected - everything that gets done inside a case - inside, abstraction, inside ...

The way Stereophile puts it, the Bel Canto Black is something of significance. 

Inside an "Operation."

The military chooses to use Hospital logic (and medical language and terminology), to a killing of folk. Not Folk Music.

Now Bel Canto (Good Singer or Beautiful Singing, Italian), chooses to use the label Black in the sense of an AMG. To denote Military-Op technology. The more capable (and thus special).

Looking just at the image, there is nothing special about the equipment. Ignore the text on the cover. You'll see a record - nothing special about that  - a 42 - an on-button. The bevel and the indent on the top is nice.

Such is the nature of Stereophile's nature and technology.

Three items is nice (one pre-amp, and two amps), but not special, if there are power-buttons on the amps (in front). Without those buttons, and the interior dividing line, perhaps moved to the corners to represent collums, the amps would look more special, and worthy of collection. You'd have a master slave relationship, where the master is represented by the display (pre-amp), and the slave (amp) is represented by utter banity (bane, uniform, no markings on).

Inside a Black Op, all sort of terrible things go on (for the profit of the state conducting), and yet inside the Bel Canto - gorgeous - everything is beautiful and lovely.


Nothing sordid going on.

Stereophile.com readers complain that Class D inclusion ($20,000.00 USD pre, $15,000.00 USD / amp) and pricing is wrong and agast. It is only Black Op for Bel Canto to place its firmware circuitry in a black box, and something especially selective for Stereophile.com to still say it is something special.