Lumen white: White Light

Hi

interesting! it's true the cd7 desapeared quid rapidly ...

Hi,

I know your thread is old, but I think I know what you experienced. The cd 7 sounded thin and un-dynamic. I used to own it, and I hated it and could not understand the positive rewievs it got. But as you know, ARC replaced it with the cd 8 quite quickly. Wonder why !
I own the ref. 3 and used to own a set of 210´s as well, and I had the combo you had as well, only did I use Wilson WP 7 at the time. I changed the cd 7 to a Wadia 381, and that helped. Later I changed to a Emm Labs CDSA SE. Much much better than the cd 7. So at the end of the day... Ref 3. and Ref 210`s ar very nice components in my oppinion, cd7 was not.

My feeling is that you have listened to an unfamiliar system as a system. You know there were things you didn't like, but since you listened in the context of a complete system you cannot point the finger at any one piece of gear.

But I was at CES a couple of years ago and I think it may have been at THE SHOW that they had the Lumen Whites set up.

When used with a top notch vinyl playback system and Ayon monoblock tube amps they were pure magic. I believe it was the best sound I heard at the shows that year.

There was a considerably more expensive model of Lumen speaker playing in another room with all high-zoot digital gear and solid-state electronics. That system failed to win my attention.

So I wouldn't be quick to judge the Lumens by the demo you attended. Heck, even disregarding room acoustics and system synergy, there are a lot of variables in setting up a high resolution system...