nonoise
Responses from nonoise
| Looking for ideas - new mono blocks for stereo music Maybe these: http://6moons.com/audioreviews2/kinki4/1.html ?My Kinki EX-M1 integrated sounds a lot like what you're after: detail and resolution. The designer of the amp studied extensively Swiss design and brings it to you at a very reasonable pr... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Everything is system dependent. One change can alter the balance. I still have my old Clearwave Duet 6 monitors that sounded fine with my old Marantz. They were similar in sound to my JBLs but at a smaller scale. With the Kinki, it's not the best ... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Hey everyone. I figured out why my soundstage was creeping over to the right. It was not that CD from Japan after all. All of my music was starting that rightward march bit by bit and it was driving me crazy.It turns out that every time I pulled t... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Thanks maritine51. It's not easy to wholeheartedly endorse something without that nagging little voice in the back of your head saying, "maybe it's just you...." 😉All the best,Nonoise | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Yes, it does continue to impress. It seems to get more 3D like. Not really holographic but the players seem more real than when I first started listening.It's easy to take things for granted and think it won't get any better until you put on a CD ... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Considering the Accuphase is 3.5 times the price of the Kinki, that's high praise, indeed. 👍 | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Nice to see that you're hanging around Alvin. It's amazing that I'm still learning all that there is to this gem. After fiddling with speaker placement, all my CDs now sound much more coherent and have more body.At first I was overwhelmed with the... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 I think mblodda1 is correct but I think it's probably the cables being the culprit concerning your highs. I found mine to be a bit hot with only one singer (who has tremendous range and power for a folksy bluegrass singer) and trying out a new set... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 He, he, he...... 😄😄😄Another notch on the Kinki belt. (let the puns fly)As for the battery, its' a 3V circular type. You have to remove 4 screws on the back to get to it. It should last a long time. I just got a 4 pack for the foreseeable future.E... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Out for delivery. 😍There's no finer phrase to please one's ears. 👍 | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 @coldears,That's the beauty of the Kinki: it's ability to literally suss out the details. No matter the singer, or instrument, they all have their own and distinct space, even if they're engineered or mixed to be on top of each other. This Kinki r... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 They are. Looking straight on from the rear, it looks like they simply named them right and left based on that view, and not from the front.It's just an oversight as none of the music I listen to suddenly flipped positions. 👍All the best,Nonoise | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 @toetapauiod,The rest of my system is:Marantz SA-15S2b SACD playerOPPO BDP-103 Bly Ray player w/linear power boardMarantz ST6000 tunerJBL 4319 Monitor speakers and Deer Creek speaker standsCabledyne Synergy speaker cables Darwin Ascension intercon... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Adendum: As wonderful as the Kinki is at imaging, I was still perplexed as to how such a wonderful recording as Suadade is, that they got the staging so far off. Well, it's time for my facepalm moment. Looking at the speaker placement was one of t... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 For prodigious base, try Sotho Blue by Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya.Any Breaking Bad soundtrackAlice Merton, No Roots has a very deep and exacting opening base lineGame of Thrones soundtrackThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo soundtrackReally, anythin... |