guidocorona
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| Review: Merrill Audio Taranis Amplifier Teranis definitely brings the magic of the NCore+Merrill house sound in the realm of affordability. And gives a temptalizing glimpse of what one might discover moving up the line.Regards, Guido | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD No prob at all Ctsooner... For next time you are on an integrated hunt... Continuum S2 is the cute 35 pounder with vestigial cooling fins priced just below $10K... Daemon is the one you can't lift because it's a 100 pounder, has a big honking hori... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hi CTSooner and Matt, thank you for the clarification. I had an inkling that the Rowland integrated in question might have been the Continuum S2.... For no other reason that Rowland Daemon is still a very rare breed.Saluti, G. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hi Ctsooner, at which dealer you auditioned both Daemon and the Ayre integrated side by side?Saluti, Guido | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hi CalvinJ, I am very keen on Daemon for the same reasons cited by Matt... Potential of substantial system simplification without sonic compromise. All third party reports this far point to Daemon sounding and looking spectacular. Unfortunately I ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD For anyone attending the NYC show this weekend, the new Rowland Daemon super-integrated will be live in theElija Budd Room Saluti, Guido | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hi Ketcham, I realize that searching on almost 60 pages of thread will be tedious, but the PS Direct Stream has been already examined and discussed at some length on this thread.G. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD What can I say CalvinJ... DIe Muzik is my uber-cup of audible ambrosia.. But I recognize that what I find so immersive that it makes me forget that the outside world even exists, might leave someone else bored to the marrow.Saluti, G. | |
| Review: Merrill Audio Taranis Amplifier Charles's findings on the lovely Taranis are right on the money. I had the pleasure of evaluating Taranis in my own system for a few months in late spring and summer.... Let me premise that my listening room is demanding.... Relatively large at ab... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hi CalvinJ, after a few years of happy ownership, I am still very much in love with my Vienna Die Muzik... Totally effortless, with fantastic stage and extension, and all those fine things that I like to call rich complexity, and bass to die for -... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt, "analog" means different things for different people... For me it is only an engineering term without any positive correlation to what I seek to hear... Far too many times I have been in "analog" suites at RMAF filled with ecstatic gents lis... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hi Mat, at the cost of being deemed uncooth and a country bumpkin, analog is what I abandoned in 1984... And never felt the need to look back since.As for "analog sound" done well, I have a hard time distinguishing it from "digital sound" done wel... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hmmm Agear, you mean to imply that there might be more excitement than mere gain of encyclopedic knowledge gained by interfacing a Babel-fish with an ear canal?G. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Thank you Mitch and Al.... I concur completely with your tightening up of my original definition....Yes Audiolabyrinth, my pref is for neutral+rich.... I often call this kind of sound "complex", which is what I usually seek... Although, I freely a... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD In my interpretation, a warm sound is a tone that has a midrange preference, and perhaps a touch of pillowiness in the mid and mid lower bass. A rich sound for me has significant exposure of harmonics throughout the range, from low bass to higher ... |