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    Rosso Fiorentino "Volterra" speakers at SouthWest Audio Fest

    They were showing the Ultra 55s, with a rear firing tweeter. I have always been skeptical of speakers with rear firing drivers, steep order crossovers, and drivers not wired in phase, as it relates to their ability to throw a deep soundstage with believable 3D images in that soundstage. But...
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    Rosso Fiorentino "Volterra" speakers at SouthWest Audio Fest

    The Von Schweikert room was, by far, my favorite room. The sense of space and dimensionality was the best at the show, by a mile. To my ears.
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    Benchmark ABH2 Mono Block Configuration

    I have two AHB2'S. Initially having one and then adding the second. In my system, to my ears, adding the second amp made everything bigger, easier, and on a larger scale. Even though I have relatively sensitive speakers at 91db, and I listen very much in the nearfield. I would say that two...
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    Lampizator Valve / Tube Rolling Review Thread

    How does it sound? What changes did it make to the sound?
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    Visit to Marc C.'s (SpiritOfMusic's) House in England

    I've heard and heard of, similar changes in other systems when they've unplugged from various power systems.
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    Why no love for Focal?

    I've heard the Grand Utopia in an amazing system. It struck me as being very resolving, very fast, and incredibly free of distortions. It was also very flat sounding (though, like most systems, I think it was more a function of the distance from the speaker and the speaker to the wall). It...
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    New experience with the dac of the gods - Lampizator Pacific

    I use a Goldpoint SA2XM, modified with silver internal wiring, with my Pac 2. I love the combination.
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    More Consensus That Streaming Is An Inferior Format & Not High End?

    I don't understand why anyone is pretending that it's a controversial take to say that, all things being relatively equal, CD playback is superior to streaming. It seems as though people take issue with a specific individual(s) or the way something was presented, and then decide to argue.
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    Coming Soon: High End Balanced Interconnect Shootout: Odin 2, Valhalla 2, AQ Dragon, Stealth Sakra V17LE, Ansuz D2 & more?

    I don't know that I agree that speaker positioning needs to be changed when changing a component. For me it makes more sense to change the component and not the speaker placement. In my experience, there is a place in the room where the speaker interacts with the room in a way that would be...
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    Ramblings: 2022, my year in hi-fi with the Innuos Pulse, SOtM iSO CAT7 and Lampizator Amber 4

    What did the two sound like when you had them in your system? And did everyone that listened, including the dealer who brought the Pulse, agree? Or are you, like everyone else, just talking about a comparison they didn't hear? Regardless of what everyone else, who haven't heard the SD9, says ...
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    Mass order of KR242 from KR Audio

    What are the differences you hear better the PT14s and the 242s? I have a balanced Pacific 2 and I'm contemplating tube changes.
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    Downsizing from dCS Vivaldi Stack? Is this dumb?

    The DCS Lina or the Lina and clock would keep you with the DCS sound, but at a much lower cost and footprint.
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    Pacific dac: Lampizator's new top of the line dac

    Has anyone tried a solid state rectifier?
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    Coming Soon: High End Balanced Interconnect Shootout: Odin 2, Valhalla 2, AQ Dragon, Stealth Sakra V17LE, Ansuz D2 & more?

    I have a pair of cables I could send if you're still able to include additional cables.
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    DAC comparison and recommendation request

    I had the little brother to the N01XD for a while. The N05XD. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. It was detailed, had depth and dimensionality, with very good depth of tone. I didn't find and real fault with it. Besides the weird top. If it weren't for my tube diversion with the...
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