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    Kuzma SAFIR 9

    How would an Audio Note Kondo IO-XP perform with the Safir? Anyone have heard this pairing? Or a Dynavector XV-1t?
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    Aavik I-880 Integrated

    Please tell us more about the Aavik after one year. last weekend I listen to a big Aavik(SD+I-880)/Borresen M3/Ansuz system in a demo and it was absolute fantastic, so effortless, fast, dynamic, controlled and present, a real new experience of listening. Maybe any other owner of the big...
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    Best pure MM stage for SUT?

    Mtemur, which Air Tight was it, the 3011, too?
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    My Little Barn

    Just a small correction: the small monitor in Gabriel’s studio is not the 310 but the Neumann KH120, a fantastic little monitor for many years. A quite new, a slightly bigger one is the KH150, that is a little revolution in this range of monitors. Yes, I can absolutely recommend to listen to the...
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    Audio Note Kondo IO-XP cartridge

    Byrdparis, is there a kind of magic, that you don’t find with Etsuro Gold and Sumile? Do you like the IO-XP even without matching SFz SUT (at least i don’t find it in your list of gear) more and even “more magical” than your other really outstanding cartridges? But maybe you can have very good...
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    Kondo Staff

    Is it still Robert Koda the third man from the left?
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    Phasemation PP-2000 vs. Dynavector XV-1t

    “I could not imagine…..“ “No need to spend….“ …maybe you should really try it and hear it for yourself to believe it. Maybe then you will willing to pay more for a cartridge, too. Maybe… But of course, cartridge/phonostage synergy is important in every price range.
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    Audio Note Kondo IO-XP cartridge

    Unfortunately I cannot read anything about the new Kondo cartridge. Nobody uses it in his system? Any listening experiences and comparisons to other excellent Japanese cartridges like Koetsu stonebody, MSL signature platinum, Air Tight, Sumile, Etsuro, Phasemation 2000 or 5000? Thanks a lot for...
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    Phasemation PP-2000 vs. Dynavector XV-1t

    Any news on these cartridges or maybe another comparisons between the PP-2000 and maybe AirTight, MSL signature platinum, Sumile or Etsuro?
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    Contenders for Most Musical and Best Two-Way Mini-Monitors of All Time?

    Any newer speakers since the last postings in 2016, that should be mentioned as nice small speaker here?
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    Esoteric Grandioso SE products announced

    You should think about the Mutec REF 10 clock, a phenomenal professional clock, too.
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    The New Acoustical System A*STELLAR turntable

    Yes, the service done by Mr. Brakemeier ist fantastic and outstanding. It is a pleasure to use his products.
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    The New Acoustical System A*STELLAR turntable

    As I don‘t have either of them, I would ask you…
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    The New Acoustical System A*STELLAR turntable

    which details and what could have been better?
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    The New Acoustical System A*STELLAR turntable

    Interesting, my Palladian plays on a Brinkmann 12.1 tonearm more dynamic and lively than on the Axiom, too.
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    Wilson Audio Sasha V

    I love to listen to my friend‘s system with Sasha Daw and now Mephisto Stereo, earlier with Diablo 300. The step from Diablo 300 to Athena+Mephisto was really astonishing big, much more substance in the bottom region, much more controlled. Never thought to have such a good hearable difference...
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    The New Acoustical System A*STELLAR turntable

    https://audiocirc.com/2023/12/02/astellar-and-cart-protection/ i think, these are just pictures from the factory and audio shows, and he doesn’t have an A*Stellar on his own. (maybe not yet, who knows) But he uses many other Acoustical System products in his collection.
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    CD Transport vs Music Server

    I think, Jeff Rowland/Cardas/T&F ISIS is an excellent basis for good sound.
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    State-of-the-Art Recordings of Classical Works (SACDs)

    The Shostakovich with Masur is really very good, today received and just heard. Thanks a lot. Maybe not as hard, dark and sarcastic as some other interpretations, more on the melodic and lighter side, but indeed very lively, well enlightened acoustics and good details.
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    State-of-the-Art Recordings of Classical Works (SACDs)

    Dear Yuen, please apologize my posting. I hesitate a long time to write it, but now I do it, sorry. All (really all!) your postings are filled with superlatives, everything is first rate, phenomenal, most….. and very ….. and to die for. I have many of these recordings, and many of them are just...
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    (Tube) phono stage with multiple equalization curves

    Congratulations for the nice AMR, that I always looked at…. Just one suggestion: try for nearly all stereo German pressed LPs till to the 90ies Teldec curve and reversed phase. Just as first step….
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    (Tube) phono stage with multiple equalization curves

    Maybe you refer to Faber‘s Power. A fantastic company with very nice peoples, I have met them on a Hifi show. The phono stage is solid state, no remote control. Other nice gear for true mono playback is the Swedish Sentec EQ 10, or later EQ 11 phono stage. With tubes, no remote. Another...
  23. Birdwatcher

    Koetsu

    And the next step? A SAPHIR?
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    CD Transport vs Music Server

    Hi Lloyd, as you know, I have the Zanden, too. But if I would compare a classic CD playback against a streamer, I would take a modern DAC. Of course it could be a R2R ladder DAC, maybe some tube DAC (Lampizaror maybe), but a solution with clocking and of course for high resolution, otherwise...
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    Kondo Ongaku

    How would you rate the G70 and 70i compared to the M77 Ongaku or M77 (not Ongaku) preamp? Both M77 preamps are also available with integrated phono. Or are these integrated phono stages not as good as the separate ones?
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    Found my bliss with Shindo Vosne-Romanee (+ Nagra 300p)

    Can you please name your country, which local distributors have this information?
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    Best Amplifier (and preamplifier) for the Sonus Faber Extremas?

    Some other ideas and recommendations? Would a newer generation Class D as a Jeff Rowland Deamon match the Extremas? Or maybe a Zanden 9600 with 845 pushpull?
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    Roksan TMS (Touraj Moghaddam Signature) with Artemiz and Shiraz

    Hello, are there any TMS user here? What is your opinion on it, what is the setup (tonearm, cartridge, motor supply, phono stage?), which base or table do yo use? Any special tricks outside of the very long manual? Maybe some former owner? What was your next turntable and what was to sonic...
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    Furutech Bulk Power Cable

    Do you use the FI50 with or without NCF and why?
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    Found my bliss with Shindo Vosne-Romanee (+ Nagra 300p)

    Essrand, try to add some other Shindo and A23 gear to your system. Maybe first an amp, interconnect and speaker cables. All these add some significant magic in that direction. Shindo can be sonically very special, as special, as the structures in the dealer/distributor/service can unfortunately...

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