Macro dynamics are outstanding. The AA is another of the recent crop of components with headroom to spare. It had riding the volume control, spinning it clockwise on soft passages, and rotating it counter on crescendos. Dynamic peaks are clean and consistent; that is, quality doesn’t change even on the grandest crescendos. Tonally, the bottom is well represented, tuneful and tight. The top has more flesh than you would expect from solid-state. The middle is hard to describe. It is so well integrated that it doesn’t register. The Accustic Art tends to the staccato side. It images discretely, with space separating instruments, and reverb trails don’t linger.