My Imp Amp arrived today courtesy of FedEX, and I was going to wait for my Athena bookshelf speakers to arrive until I played with it, but really I wan’t going to wait, and I hooked it up to a old pair of Technics SB-CR33 speakers I had laying in my ofice.

So what does it sound like? Great so far is the answer, but with any luck, maybe even better with the Athena speakers.

I have my iPod hooked up to it (just happened have a stero jack to dual RCA lying about) and am listening to a wide variety of my favorite songs. So far I’ve noticed the following:

- various clicks and hiss on some songs (from CDs and iTunes) that I’d never noticed
- real silence, through the amp is very clean and hiss/crap free

Other than that, you plug an iPod in and it makes great room filling music. I’m kind of at a loss for what to say since I’m not an audiophile. I have an old Aiwa walkman from when Aiwa was high-end (1988) and it sounded great, but not as good as the bass-boosting Sony crap boxes. This amp is similar, but it actually is bassy enough. I can always crank the EQ on the iPod if I really need to.

It does look absolutely rocking though.