1. It's so called Luxury Edition limited to 26 pairs of Trio G2 series before the introduction of Trio G3 owned by Todd ( @sbnx) .The main differences to the regular G2 Trios are : more rigid frame, better capacitors and internal cabling ( gold/silver afaik).
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BTW Jérôme André was the man behind the Audio Aero La Fontaine and La Source projects. I still keep the former, is a very good sacd/cd player and usb DAC and can be upgraded by Vermeer Audio which also provide a service for those two AA models.
I have one album of Ma Vlast in sealed box as an long time « investment » and the other one for listening.
Now I ordered Dvorak 9th with jpc.de, the best price for european customers if am not mistaken.
Thank you @MikeHorns and @Mike Lavigne for recommendations...
I do not know if I may but Lukasz told me at the reception of my Pac that in his private system he listen now to Pac 2 for the charme of DHT. I am also sensitive to this kind of distortion ;)
I upgraded my Pacific to Pac 2 specification and listened without any burning in for 2 hours . The DAC is audibly quiter, no hum whatsoever, darker background, I have also the impression it has a bit lower gain which is good in my effective system with Trio LE 26.
The next day I left for...
I buy on regular basis Fone in native DSD files from nativedsd.com , it happened to me to buy also several Fone sacds .
I have " Madame Terra " in native DSD , outstanding music and sound quality. Now I will download "Canto Stafano", one can't be wrong with Fone:)
Clear, you know Ked that I admire and respect your experience but probably our sound preferences are a bit different.
For me it is obvious that the choice about the components we make is always a matter of accessible options. Then the setup at home is a matter of visual, acoustic and - last but...
I am for last 13 years or so a " horn guy " and I had a lot of magic moments listening to Duo Omega and Duo Mezzo XD :)
I start to think that there is something wrong with me ;)
I like also other constructions - among others some Cessaro, Acapella , Living Voice , hORNs , Destination Audio or...
Yes and no;) Sounds very much taoist, no?;)
Yes - the living room is quit big ( around 100 sqm) but no - I have no so much space for basshorn/spacehorn because I want to keep the 3 sources and amplification between the speakers.
I have a line of power sockets behind the rack and all cables ...
My experience with 4 REL subs and Trio 26 LE ( much heavier and thus less resonant that the standard XD version ) is that the best place for the subs was the inner space - not outside - and just behind the big horn. The integration is not an easy task, I started with 2 subs behind the...
No Christoph, I have never tried RK 5u4g in Crossfire.
I am now using hybrid A100 in my setup but when I will be back to C3 I will follow your and Brad recommendation for NOS 6n6p.