branimir
Responses from branimir
| Best Sonus Faber for 16 sq room. ? Cremona Auditor on dedicated stand or Concerto Domus.Not even Guarneri Memento... Why? Its stand it simply too tall for your room. My friend tried to put Memento's in room little bit bigger then yours(5m x 3.85m) with not so good resluts. You need... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Rene,regarding difference between 01 and 03 combos my idea is that gain in performance is not that big if you go for MC 01 setup. But, price difference is huge...For two channel playback(RBCD/SACD) 01 combo is better IMHO. For your setup little bi... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Rene,First let me tell you that some of your findings are similar to mine. I know about difficulty to get your hands on D-01/P-01/G-0s in EU... I was in similar process...Regarding sound differences between two combos IMHO big(D-01/P-01/G-0s) is b... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Osgorth,If you already decided for all MBL setup then it most logical step to go for 1622 and 1611E. In all MBL system they will be very hard to beat IMHO.But, to my ears MBL 1621/1611E combo is not better then Esoteric D-01/P-01/G-0s or Metronome... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Hi Teajay, Your findings regarding difference between Accustic Arts combo and Esoteric X-01LTD almost mirrors my own resluts. For some people Esoteric player may even be little bit too lean in midrange but, not to my ears(well, almost). Esoteric b... | |
| Audio Research Reference CD-7 I will audition Meridian 808 in mid January next year. More in-depth info and impression then...Info about Lindemann in Reference DACs thread. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective No slouch,I did not audition Bluenote. If you need RBCD sound very close to #2 flavor(or #2 flavor) then you can decide between ARC REF CD7 or Lindemann 820. Both are very good, ARC is little bit more organic in midrange to my ears. Both players a... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective First about Krell Evolution 505... It is IMHO one of the best players on the market in this price class. In all Krell CAST connected system it betters even more expensive combo like Weiss in most areas(but, this is my subjective opinion!).Teajay, ... | |
| A great article on Class D/switching amps Teajay,Usually I agree with you, but not this time...You apparently did not audition any new Krell amp(Evolution One, Evolution 402, 600 or 900) because they simply do not have anything similar to Halcro's(DM88,DM78 or DM38). If fact if Halcro is ... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Al, regarding price my guess is $15K in USA.Since new X-01 D2 is really most exciting new digital player I am more then interested to audition it ASAP.Also, my guess is that Esoteric will release updated version of flagship D-01/P-01(D-01 D2/P-01 ... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Al,New Esoteric X-01 D2 could be revolutionary player! Big difference is that it is using DUAL(!!) DACs for PCM and DSD. PCM1704 is used for CD playback and AD1955 is used for DSD(both in balaced configuration). But, you can also upsample PCM to D... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective New digital gear:Accuphase DC-801 DACAccuphase DP-800 SACD/CD transportAccuphase DP-500 CD playerEsoteric X-01 D2 SACD/CD player(it seems to use AD1955)andWadia 971(rumor reference SACD/CD transport as companion for 921/931)New version of X-01 is ... | |
| Krell LAT 1000 with tubes Francisco,I fully agree with you regarding ignorance of audio press about LAT-1000s. They are together with Avalon Isis my current favorites!LAT-1000 was reviewed by Japanese Stereo with excellent resluts! AFAIK A.H.Cordesman of TAS and Audiophile... | |
| A great article on Class D/switching amps Teajay, I had a chance to audition Jeff Rowland Model 501/Concerto pre combo in my systems and did not like it at all. Despite nice, powerfull bottom end everything else in sound presentation was wrong IMHO. As J.Valin correctly ponit out treble i... | |
| Krell LAT 1000 with tubes Hmm... Honestly, tube amps will have pretty hard time driving LAT-1000s. Lowest point in LAT-1000 impedance curve is around 2ohms(!!) in bass region, this will rull out most of the tube amps.BTW, LAT-1000 nominal impedance is 3ohms...But, if you s... |