@ Pesky wabbit
Of course I ran some opinions which may not be always true, but in general, with most of my classical cds (LPs might vary nuances to a greater degree) Richard Gray's modded Dyanco ST70 el34 sounded very VERY close to the Defy7 kt88
At least from faint memory.
The 3 diigital sources, the Shanling did show up a winner, but onlya nuance superior to the Cayin.
I might even go so far as to say a well designed ss amplification may be acceptable if pair with full range/TI compression. And thats a huge break from my idea that the only way to experience living music is via tubes.
Thats how much important I am placing on the speakers as the main critical compoent in a system.
So if we are talking FR/TI compression tweet, it really might not even matter which amplification one is employing.
And if we could have Richard Gray set up a massive blind test, with all sorts of dif amplification, , sources, both digital, phono, ahhh tell ya what, throw in some cables, wires boutique caps, etc on the xovers and inside amps,
Might take a week to complete this **whole system shoot out**, Then have Richard tally his results,, trust me, alot of old audiophiles mightm, in fact will be very UN-PLEASANTLY surprised at their voting.
These shootouts are slippery.
Richard has staged such events , only with a few **mystery* amplifiers, resulting in a few participants steaming mad that he has been **duped/tricked*
Both with amplifiers and speakers.
**The RG Experiment* would have most of us here on audiogon, scratching our heads, as to how we could ever get so many of our long held, cherished, rock-solid opinions/ideas, stubborn views on equipment and brand names, so so ~~~~ wrong~~~. Leaving scratching our heads.
This is the end result of this ~~~RG Complete Shootout~~~
Voxativ would come out the clean, clear winner of all and every component involved. That is to say a much higher %age would vote Vox as winner in the speaker category.
At least everyone would get the speaker votes right.
caveat here: provided we have honest UN-biased participants.
Good luck with that.
Of course I ran some opinions which may not be always true, but in general, with most of my classical cds (LPs might vary nuances to a greater degree) Richard Gray's modded Dyanco ST70 el34 sounded very VERY close to the Defy7 kt88
At least from faint memory.
The 3 diigital sources, the Shanling did show up a winner, but onlya nuance superior to the Cayin.
I might even go so far as to say a well designed ss amplification may be acceptable if pair with full range/TI compression. And thats a huge break from my idea that the only way to experience living music is via tubes.
Thats how much important I am placing on the speakers as the main critical compoent in a system.
So if we are talking FR/TI compression tweet, it really might not even matter which amplification one is employing.
And if we could have Richard Gray set up a massive blind test, with all sorts of dif amplification, , sources, both digital, phono, ahhh tell ya what, throw in some cables, wires boutique caps, etc on the xovers and inside amps,
Might take a week to complete this **whole system shoot out**, Then have Richard tally his results,, trust me, alot of old audiophiles mightm, in fact will be very UN-PLEASANTLY surprised at their voting.
These shootouts are slippery.
Richard has staged such events , only with a few **mystery* amplifiers, resulting in a few participants steaming mad that he has been **duped/tricked*
Both with amplifiers and speakers.
**The RG Experiment* would have most of us here on audiogon, scratching our heads, as to how we could ever get so many of our long held, cherished, rock-solid opinions/ideas, stubborn views on equipment and brand names, so so ~~~~ wrong~~~. Leaving scratching our heads.
This is the end result of this ~~~RG Complete Shootout~~~
Voxativ would come out the clean, clear winner of all and every component involved. That is to say a much higher %age would vote Vox as winner in the speaker category.
At least everyone would get the speaker votes right.
caveat here: provided we have honest UN-biased participants.
Good luck with that.