As usual, my plans for the future are altered by forces bigger than me. So it should be no surprise that the plan I created at 10 years old for a bucket list audio system has turned out ifferent than projected.
Somehow I thought that when all of the equipment arrived it would take at least three months for the system to begin to stabilize. Now it is 6 months and I have a speaker dead in the water due to a weird power anomaly that produced a surge and took out the input of one of my Ultra 9’s 1000 watt plate amps for the 15” sub as well as the sub driver.
I find it kind of funny that I have two pairs of VSA speakers in my main system currently with the little brothers (E3 Mk2) holding up the big brothers, (Ultra 9’s). What is remarkable is how good the E3’s are and the auditory DNA similarities with the 9’s. Although not the 9’s, the E3 Mk2’s are a joy to listen to. It is also wonderful to see how they scale given the quality of the system driving them. The sound still rapidly envelopes you and helps me escape into the music.
The more familiar I become with current VSA speakers the more I realize that they have more in common with one another than they are different. The consistency of the VSA sound across the line is a testimony to Damon’s and Leif’s unending attempts to emulate reality by addressing any and all known distortions anywhere in the system. Hence the VSA tag, The Sound of Reality.
Monday was to be the day that I thought I would receive the final important piece to my bucket list system, a Taiko SGM Extreme, to replace my Innuos SE which did not work at all with my MasterBuilt Ultra USB, which I am unwilling to forgo. So I am being forced to listen to the E3’s during this system culminating experience with the Taiko Extreme, which I have never heard and still have not heard because it is still lost in customs somewhere. Regardless the little brothers have done a wonderful job helping me not overload during this very trying week and trying time in my life.
I have enclosed a picture because I think it is kind of funny with the little brother helping the heavy weights
Somehow I thought that when all of the equipment arrived it would take at least three months for the system to begin to stabilize. Now it is 6 months and I have a speaker dead in the water due to a weird power anomaly that produced a surge and took out the input of one of my Ultra 9’s 1000 watt plate amps for the 15” sub as well as the sub driver.
I find it kind of funny that I have two pairs of VSA speakers in my main system currently with the little brothers (E3 Mk2) holding up the big brothers, (Ultra 9’s). What is remarkable is how good the E3’s are and the auditory DNA similarities with the 9’s. Although not the 9’s, the E3 Mk2’s are a joy to listen to. It is also wonderful to see how they scale given the quality of the system driving them. The sound still rapidly envelopes you and helps me escape into the music.
The more familiar I become with current VSA speakers the more I realize that they have more in common with one another than they are different. The consistency of the VSA sound across the line is a testimony to Damon’s and Leif’s unending attempts to emulate reality by addressing any and all known distortions anywhere in the system. Hence the VSA tag, The Sound of Reality.
Monday was to be the day that I thought I would receive the final important piece to my bucket list system, a Taiko SGM Extreme, to replace my Innuos SE which did not work at all with my MasterBuilt Ultra USB, which I am unwilling to forgo. So I am being forced to listen to the E3’s during this system culminating experience with the Taiko Extreme, which I have never heard and still have not heard because it is still lost in customs somewhere. Regardless the little brothers have done a wonderful job helping me not overload during this very trying week and trying time in my life.
I have enclosed a picture because I think it is kind of funny with the little brother helping the heavy weights
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