Hello Sirs,
As posted earlier, I asked JongHyun from Hifistay to send his flagship footers, Absolute Point, to me and try here directly in my system. He's very kind and did send me one set with all the caps from standard stainless steel, bronze and pure coppers. As he had to give the rest to...
How is the msb select 2 dac going Itay?
My old friend bought the innous statement 2 boxes last year since we came back from Munich but still not connected to his system yet after 10 months.
I will have it here for a week to try and see how things go. Should be great fun as it’s one of the best...
Hey Itay, no I have not. I missed a chance to try the msb select 2 dac here last October because it coincided with my wife gave birth to our 3rd child and I’d have a week or so with it so I couldn’t make it.
In addition msb doesn’t have a transport like the dcs vivaldi that I need to play my CD...
I’ve just come back home from the Audio Show Deluxe. Actually the room with all the list prices combined together reach £1.5m really not worth the money, especially the Borresen speakers that cost £500k alone for the pair I was told by the Danish guys demonstrating their stuff.
as always, I...
Thanks Dan for coming over and it’s fantastic to have you here again after years since your last visit to check how koda amp and tripoint grounding box sound with my previous karan/magico/esoteric system.
Like with Adam, hopefully I’ll be able to visit you one day when my family situation...
Thanks Adam for coming over, it’s my absolute pleasure to have you here and hopefully one day I’ll be able to give you a visit :).
I appreciate all your comments and suggestions to improve my system even further although we’re different in this very subjective hobby. However, I did contact John...
Happy Friday everyone and I'm having a late night tonight with wonderful music. Luckily I won't have to work tomorrow so can indulge myself a treat with my favourite albums and tracks.
Alongside Besame Mucho which is extremely popular for not only listening to but also for testing systems, my...
That’s the right choice and congratulations to have this amazing pre in your system. If not because of equipment matching and H&S, I would never change it for anything else regardless of price. I’m just lucky that the full pilium combo sounds just super and maintaining many similar...
Thanks Lloyds, they’re are actually fantastic people and I will definitely find opportunities with them in the future as well because simply they’re having stuff that I might be interested.
after they left my house at midday, my old friend came over for a visit and listen to my system. He found...
Finally the vivaldi apex dac is here with me. Hopefully the upsampler and clock will arrive soon too to complete my digital. I felt in love with the look of the vivaldi years ago since I first saw them, while they sound utterly beautiful. I missed a chance to buy a brand new combo of the...
A very quick update from me, Dual DSD can’t be used due to compability. But I went to the local shop and borrowed a coax cable then now it’s working like magic. I can’t wait until the apex dac arrives here to get the full magic of the dual DSD then the upsampler and clock will complete it.
Today I went down south to a shop which is 160 miles from home to buy the dcs vivaldi transport. They’re the authorised dealer of dcs and I was told that the item was used just less than 10 hours and literally it’s in as new conditions.
it’s very unfortunate that they’d sold their apex dac...
Finally the festive season has arrived, so I wish you all a Merry Xmas and very Happy New Year.
For me, I've just experienced some very nice stuff recently and truly want to share this with you.
A week ago, Stefano, the Sigma Acoustic distributor in the UK, came to my house bringing a pair of...
Wow, very many congratulations Sir for your new purchase. I was seriously considering the Ultime Ref 2 as my long term speakers as well when I was looking for a new pair last year after using the magico q5 for 10 years plus. They are actually in my top 3 contenders by that time and...
Fantastic, you won’t be disappointed with your choice. I was very impressed with the combo at Munich last year driving magico a5 speakers, just fabulous.
I've been using them for around 4 months now and having no problem with operation at all.
I'm not sure how other users find it as surely some have Pilium much longer than I do, but it's really reliable so far :).
Also if you follow this thread, you can see Konstatinos and his crew are super...
It’s interesting that today I received an email from Audiogon with Mike’s EA speakers are for sale and not sure what’s next for his journey.
I was thinking about his speakers before but I didn’t have the current room for them while I never had a chance to listen to any pair of EA as well to...
Thanks Kedar, interestingly I was looking at the FM phono a few days ago and not sure how it’d sound in my system.
I was not totally convinced when listening to the full FM system at Munich last year despite various types of music were played when I spent 30-45 minutes there. But as always...
Thank you for your advice, much appreciated and I totally understand the fun gained from that upgrade journey.
I’ve not researched anything about phonostage yet, so any recommendations for me please? The best possible one :)
I can’t travel anytime soon until next year. I think I am in no rush to force myself buying anything at the moment although I have the itch to change my digital and bringing a tt home.
While researching about TTs, I bumped into an old article about Walker, it’s just crazy to read through the...
After a long time using digital as my only source, I might be crazy enough to go into analog now and buying my first ever TT then cart and phono to follow shortly.
The only problem is I have never set up an analog system before and what I have read about that and the maintenance of the tt and...
It seems only Hyperion who has got everything listed on his website, otherwise I am struggling to find them online too, especially for other countries but not Sweden
I’ve got your point as it’s easier for you to compare the whole set of karan to pilium while I only had the monoblocks but a different pre which I think is just stellar.
Konstantinos told me not to go above 28 with the Olympus although the max volume is set at 33. So I never dared to go above...
I’ve never tried the karan pre before so can’t comment on that, but having owned quite a number of high quality tube pres and then the koda, it just ticked all the boxes for me.
Even when Aldo was here, so Dave etc. Everyone was just utterly impressed by how the Karan/Koda combo did with the...
A sunny Saturday afternoon with wonderful music, after a crazy time when many things went wrong, is absolutely a treat for myself.
I listen to various types of music including classical and neoclassical, but really selective in what I like. I hope you like this piece too, especially the intro...