Hi fellas,
I woukd like to reintroduce myself into this very interesting thread( i posted here before,but forgot about the thread).
I ve been thru this thread fully,and there are very interesting findings for me like ,upgrading spikes and isolation platforms.
I have the nenuphars since almost a year ,and i can say they are fully break in .
I ve tested and heard meticulously the nenuphars with different amplifiers and i will share my thoughts here.
My thoughts and findings are the results of listening in my system and my couple friends systems owning the nenuphars.
( one more friend is going to order soon nenuphar).
These 3 friend ; ( one of them is in this thread ,and added the cube audio subs recently),all of them bought the nenuphars after hearing them in my system.
So let me go straight to the point about my findings: these speakers are the most transparent speakers ive heard so far,ive heard quite many.
Thru nenuphar i heard the most natural vocal and timbres as well.
Very dynamic speakers and they can deliver real freaking bass but but.. with the right amp....more at the end.
Details often jumps at you more than you jump on them.
Imaging,soundstage,all there ..pinpoint.
If there is a negative aspect,and to be picky,i woukd say bass.but let me be clear,i m talking about bass quantity and not quality.
Bass is really precise,clear,feels real ,airy but i feel i lack some oumph,or some chest pressure sometimes......( more below for this negative point wich appeared to be not the nenuphar fault)
I like and share the same what david -ten i think said,you stop caring about speakers and you start working on your upfront,and every small change you do, either cable,fuse,server is easily distinguishable.
I heard them be driven by,mbl c51;gryphon 300,lm845 premium( upraded with elrog845 ,elrog 300b) silver ombilical cable upgrade ,aries cerat genus 845 ( elrog 845).( currently since yesterday elekit 300b with stock tubes of my friend lm845 premium).
During the last year or so,i stopped caring about speakers and focused on server/streamer choice and this gave me the opportunity to listen to my friends nenuphar driven by amps above, the mbl c51 being mine.
To summarize,the lm845 premium is wonderful driving them but the magic came out of the AC genus 845: set design ,25 watt class A.
All the other amps drove well the nenuphars and are really listenable choices, but the 2 on top are la creme de la creme,with the genus being mr i do it all with finesse and a smile.
The nenuphar are masters in a disappearing act,with genus driving them it s like you are really in front artists playing for you,instruments standing in front of you,crazy depth,crazy sounstage,and bass........amazing.
Yes the nenuphar lack some oumph when placed into the room,but give you very good bass response when placed close to front wall,but i thought loosing depth on the latter,and sticked with them placed into the room.
Before hearing the genus i was thinking augmenting my system with 2 rel subs,but not anymore now after hearing genus.
I ordered the genus845,wich will land beginning may.
My current system:
Modem ( ifi 12v ps)—generic copper eth -ubiquiti wifi less router(ifi 12v ps)-copper eth-optimodule( sgp ps)-optical cable—————etherregen switch (keces p8 lps)- vodka AQ————server-(2* keces p8 lps)=======sablon usb—— AC kassandra ref2 dac——- silteck classic 110 mk2 rca ic—mbl c51— audience 24 se sc———nenuphars.
I ll share more thought when i receive my genus.
Thks