The Highest - Suprema

How cool to hear such a wonderful set of speakers, but I’m surprised they weren’t using Mac equipment. Even in their suite in New York, they have a large rack of McIntosh feeding the Suprema’s and their sub towers.

I had the pleasure of hearing the exact same system last week too. Paragon did a great job setting them up.  I was there early and had the room to myself. I was able to request a number of familiar songs to get a sense.  I will say it was a fantastic system.  No doubt.  However, it was too much of a good thing in my opinion.  Overly smooth.  I felt the soundstage was lacking.  Dynamics were lacking.  Maybe a different amp would have helped.  I’m not a huge fan of the Burmester sound.  Typically that room has XVX which are a third of the price and in my opinion perform much better in that room. I walked away knowing what I’ve set up for myself at home at a fraction of the price is not that far off from a cost no object system.  

@curiousjim : they pointed out the obvious to us (they ARE a McIntosh store), but consciously decided on the Burmaster.

@jbthurston : I actually LIKED that (smooth, relaxed, ’easy’), and pointed it out to Livio during our conversation, and he confirmed that it very well fits the overall (and traditional) Sonu faber sound philosophy. I later went back and forth between the Stradivari and the Suprema room. Could be the music material, but came away with the Stradivari setup sounding to ’harsh’ on my ears (in this comparison, not sure how they would compare to others speakers/brands in side by side comparison). The Stradivari also had a much different sound stage (which Livio explained by pointing out the WIDE front of Stradivari and their decision/setup to NOT use the rear facing tweeter/midrange after long listening seesion for the Ann Arbor setup.