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| Finally heard Accuphase Keep in mind most of whats in AN is japanese. Accuphase won't use as high end japanese components inside their gear. I think AN looks amazing with the lid off. Solid state with tons of capacitance power tanks will always sound flat and no energy... | |
| Finally heard Accuphase @thriftyaudio By the way, I heard AN at a private dealer. I compared these field coils from the show ($65k) with their lowest end speakers of the same shape. I found the lower end ones (around $7k I think) to sound more emotional and soulful. The ... | |
| Finally heard Accuphase @thriftyaudio what did you find disappointing about the AN room? The Snell box designs are certainly very different from electrostatics. | |
| Finally heard Accuphase @mihorn "I hear thick veiled and glare sounds which makes me a headache and blur vision." Exactly how it was for me IRL. Extremely veiled. And in the gryphon room, the guy says, "I'll play this sax solo that sounds really good" and it was so ... | |
| Finally heard Accuphase Oh, just saw this video of one of the rooms I'm refering to. https://youtu.be/OyGaklvHrVE?si=GSxGHfKmBTTwTwnn I stayed about a minute before I got bored. Musically I could hear the information that I know was in the album, but the presentation w... | |
| Finally heard Accuphase @freediver I heard Soulnotes driving the big YG. It was just ok to me. Wonder if Accuphase would have been better. (But the sound was much better than the Accuphase rooms). @ckr1969 Well, this was CommonWave setting up one of the rooms...they ... | |
| Finally heard Accuphase I wanted to hear it at home, but I thought the show would at least impress me. However, in real life the chassis were impressive. I think most of your $ goes there. | |
| Finally heard Accuphase Well as a comparison, the Audio Note room blew them away. Clarity, realism, low noise floor, instruments sounding real in the room, etc. | |
| Kondo vs Audio Note silver Yes, it's referring to the annealing process. If you shock the metal for quick annealing, it does one thing to the sound. Allowing it to cool over long periods of time does something else to the sound. | |
| Kondo vs Audio Note silver Well how does the Kondo copper compare to Lexus? I am also very familiar with Lexus, which is quite nice. | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? @soix Like you said in the original post, you don't get it. That's correct. | |
| What exactly is PRaT??? Prat encompasses the full energy in the music or instrument to begin with. It’s the natural energy, like plucking a high end guitar versus a cheap one. The high end guitar will give off more prat, and allow more expression. Getting prat in playba... | |
| Recommend a DAC based on Analog Devices? @iseland truthfully, this is correct. I have modded DACs and built power supplies and discovered so. But I was going to look at the topology and parts of suggestions for AD DACs and decide if they were worth going into. | |
| Recommend a DAC based on Analog Devices? I found out that Abbas Audio sells a new DAC with the Analog Devices chip. He said he used to dislike it, but finally found a way to make it sound nice and non-fatiguing. It’s not expensive, but the reviews of his gear seem mixed. Not sure why, t... | |
| Sun Valley vs Sun Audio 300b @wgs57 thanks for the info:) |