@solarjam You will be impressed by the packaging, both outer and inner. Mine arrived in the usual brown corrugated cardboard shipping box, but the box was completely sealed with a tough plastic coating. Never seen that before. You could have tossed the box in the Mississippi river at StLouis, floated it down to New Orleans, and still enjoy excellent sound from the contents.
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@kclone Dig your best disk spinner out of the basement and enjoy! |
After a bunch of system troubleshooting and tweaks (unrelated to the Laiv Harmony itself), I feel the Harmony sounds absolutely fantastic and is an excellent value at its price. In case anyone is curious, I'm running DH Labs' Revelations (XLR) with Analysis Plus' Pure Silver USB cable direct to PC with fantastic results. I did test DSD512 in JRiver, but preferred the sound of PCM from Amazon Music (with Windows sound settings maxed and OS enabled). I also noticed a pretty big difference with the Harmony connected to my Furman's balanced outlets rather than not. In regards to OS/NOS, the only difference to me was a very small difference in OS giving a tiny bit more extension to highs. After about 50 hours in, my take is that aside from being very balanced, it's transparent and able to present layers and dimensional space very well. I'm noticing some subtle details that weren't apparent with delta sigma DACs (or perhaps hidden behind a bright edge). I still stand behind what I mentioned earlier that I don't think it'll necessarily transform someone's system into something it's not, but it will allow it to shine if everything is sorted. It took me about a week to really dial in everything, but was worth it. Favorite current demo tracks:
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