The Craziest Flagship-grade Phonoamps Shootout!

[CKKeung]

I am often asked by WBF brothers to report on or to arrange direct shootout of hifi components.
Yes, Hong Kong is a compact city with many hifi dealers and I have many audiophile friends.
However direct shootouts of flagship-grade components are difficult to arrange, because of obvious reasons ...

The followings are the craziest reports on direct shootouts of flagship-grade phonoamps done in Mainland China.
So many of them playing together!
Please read with google translate.

Part 1 :

6台顶级唱放对比测试，超跑级黑胶系统为参考（1）

唱放之间的差异，远远超出我们的脑放，尤其在参考级唱盘上。

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Part 2 :

11台顶级唱放对比测试，超跑级黑胶系统为参考（2）

德国Trinity黄金参考前级的加入，把本次测试推向了高潮。

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Part 3 :

12台顶级唱放对比测试，黑胶元年真的来了（3）

顶级玩家那里黑胶一直没有衰落，软硬件革命性突破更是火上加油。

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Part 4 :

唱放中的"金陵十二钗": 唱放测试终结篇（4）

哪个是黛玉？哪个是宝钗？大家最关心的可能是哪个是秦可卿。。。

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Their opinions are of course very subjective.
But I think all of you must agree with me that these Mainland China vinyl audiophiles are fanatics!
Unbelievable!

 

[cjfrbw]

Wow, that's a shootout of shootouts. They all had their merits, it seems.

 

[TLi]

Hi end phonostage is the most difficult component to select in a hifi system. There are not that many flagship grade phonostages in the market and there is the problem of matching with cartridge and amps. One phono sounds good in one system does not mean it will also sound good in other system.

 

[ShawnZH]

Interestingly those posts appear here. I know this blogger personally. He’s running a Social Media channel on WeChat and posting daily for hiend/hifi gears and classical music commentaries. It is a very commercially biased channel, especially the articles about hifi gears. The blogger is not an experienced vinyl player, though being able to assemble and collect those gears. You can read them for fun but not necessarily take them seriously.

 

[howiebrou]

Interestingly those posts appear here. I know this blogger personally. He’s running a Social Media channel on WeChat and posting daily for hiend/hifi gears and classical music commentaries. It is a very commercially biased channel, especially the articles about hifi gears. The blogger is not an experienced vinyl player, though being able to assemble and collect those gears. You can read them for fun but not necessarily take them seriously.

Shawn, we are waiting for a video of your Uber-system!

 

[ShawnZH]

Shawn, we are waiting for a video of your Uber-system!

I'm not a fan of recording my system, but will try. I'm still messing around with my 3 tables, 5 arms, 7 carts and 2 phonos and all sorts of cables. In the past couple of months, I added a Kuzma XL DC TT and 2 Kuzma 4P 12inch arms into my system and also 2 Lyra carts: Atlas and Enta SL. Phono stage finally goes for a Soulution 755 and a Kondo Combo: M7+SFz, all tube setup. Too many new toys, too little time to play with those.

Need to figure out which one to record for the best.

 

[howiebrou]

I'm not a fan of recording my system, but will try. I'm still messing around with my 3 tables, 5 arms, 7 carts and 2 phonos and all sorts of cables. In the past couple of months, I added a Kuzma XL DC TT and 2 Kuzma 4P 12inch arms into my system and also 2 Lyra carts: Atlas and Enta SL. Phono stage finally goes for a Soulution 755 and a Kondo Combo: M7+SFz, all tube setup. Too many new toys, too little time to play with those.

Need to figure out which one to record for the best.

Don't worry. We will gladly take anything!