Hello,
i had the old (produced about 1996) Shahinian Diapasons for some years. They were great for classical music, very good wall of sound, but not very exact in localization and micro images. Not very fast, more a kind of rolling sound.
The later should be better, the actual version 2 maybe even better.
i had Bedini 501, they sounded good, a big Plinius SA-103 was fantastic.
Other recommended amps are the Sanders Magtech! Maybe bigger Jeff Rowland or Pass, and yes, the Mac 501 should be very good.
Shahinian in Europe, especially in Germany is not present at all, it is even very difficult to sell it. I needed about 1 year, another user of even two pairs of Diapasons tried to sell them over 2-3 years for a fair price, but nobody wanted to buy. It is not any more known, the time of the reviews in the magazines are way back in the 1990ies, and the most people don’t know them. Some have maybe heared the smaller ones, but not the big Diapasons.
Maybe the situation is different in the UK, I don’t know it.
i had the old (produced about 1996) Shahinian Diapasons for some years. They were great for classical music, very good wall of sound, but not very exact in localization and micro images. Not very fast, more a kind of rolling sound.
The later should be better, the actual version 2 maybe even better.
i had Bedini 501, they sounded good, a big Plinius SA-103 was fantastic.
Other recommended amps are the Sanders Magtech! Maybe bigger Jeff Rowland or Pass, and yes, the Mac 501 should be very good.
Shahinian in Europe, especially in Germany is not present at all, it is even very difficult to sell it. I needed about 1 year, another user of even two pairs of Diapasons tried to sell them over 2-3 years for a fair price, but nobody wanted to buy. It is not any more known, the time of the reviews in the magazines are way back in the 1990ies, and the most people don’t know them. Some have maybe heared the smaller ones, but not the big Diapasons.
Maybe the situation is different in the UK, I don’t know it.
