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What's Best? Soulution, CH Precision, Vitus, or Ayre?
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the ones you play on your videos.
also, you never refer to any. it is not like you not to not talk about what you know
I play music I like not just what sounds the best but nearly all the posts I did are of at least very good quality …just not usually classical orchestra.
This matches my experience from the listening session with the Magico M9s.
I think this is outdated thinking now that reference SS and reference tube amps have converged to very similar sonic performance.
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Top of mind here are the upper level Audio Research, VTL, and VAC amps. The bass performance is getting close to SS. And on the solid state side, Pass Labs' Class A midrange is approaching tube level imho.
wow at the lack of experience in hifi. Anyone with an iota of experience would know I was referring to low wattage amps, many single ended, with audio research, VAC, or VTL nowhere in scope. Instead, your total lack of experience made you think of all that as one not appreciating the differences.
at least if you had countered back with SETs and efficient speakers can be equalled by SS and associated low impedance lower efficiency speakers, it would have been a counter view. Now yours just showed lack of experience.
kind of like only digital people who have never investigated analog thinking digital and vinyl is now equal because they did one compare
No reason to be insulting. I have loads of experience: 42 years in the hobby, Chesky recording engineer & producer, 200+ professional recordings, professional reviewer, CEO of TAS and hifi+.
It wasn't clear in the post I responded to that you were talking about SET amps.
it was on the subsequent. And even them you could have used both. I really don’t rate AR, VTL that much. That said it will still be a better alternative to use Soulution preamp into AR poweramp than the other way round, which was my point. I did not make a point not to use SS pre into SS power where required.
if you need powerful amps, use SS.
it really requires a guy who is going around talking about lack of diminishing returns, 2m speakers, XVX and dCS being at the forefront of technology to have basic knowledge of other elements in hifi.
And call people way more knowledgable than you as “outdated”, that is insulting, for someone in a glass house to throw a stone at someone in a nuclear bunker. You started a post calling someone a douchebag the other day. I wonder how they let you on here.
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Sorry, but I must disagree with VAC - which we just sold. Our SS was and still is superior … And there are other amps - other than Pass (which I sold a year ago) - which are more tube-like. Please listen to a complete Vitus Masterpiece setup! It’s a consistent tube-like sound. Amazing. You’re welcome to my home near Destin, FL for a listen….
……and I heard the system a few months back with Ked. The learning for me, above all, was how well the system played in a very small room ( when professionally set up and dialed in), completely belying expectation. I also learnt a bit about ‘gain-staging’.
There was no boom, overhang. Just clean and dynamic music. In fact it played grunge rock exceptionally well at very loud volumes, something a lot of systems out there cant do without sounding harsh.
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sujay
I had a Vitus 025 sia for about five years and about three years ago I upgraded to the 030.
My limited experience of CH Precision is of a dry sound which lacks musicality. Some may like that flavour which is also characteristic of the Soulution brand.
To my ears there is a rigthtness about the Vitus sound. It doesn't lack transparency or resolution and there is a lovely liquid organic flow to the sound on all genres of music. Great build quality and they hold their value well.
I apologized for calling XV-1 a douchebag but he has not apologized for calling my thoughtful thread “BS”.
I proudly stand by my comments on the problems with the Law of Diminishing Returns. $2 million speakers refers to technology advances in the future and what realism we might expect. It’s me thinking aloud In wonder. It’s not an endorsement for $2 million speakers. And yes, I do believe the XVX and dCS DACs represent new technology being applied in ways that serve music.
I would love to stop by for a listen. I get to Destin every once and a while.
But I will say the VAC and Acora pairing at Axpona was truly wonderful. Unfortunately the Vitus-Estelon system was not so wonderful there which is a shame for a $1.2 million system.
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