Thanks for sharing your experience in the heat. Ouch that price. Makes me wonder about alternatives. Playback Designs may have as good a DAC. Cheaper. And a reasonably good streamer, soon to try a Melco N series. Let’s see. You seem to have posed a benchmark. Actually I don’t mind cheating by...
Another feature of this system is the tube based ARC Ref CD9 supplying a fully balanced solid state system that smacks of transparency. Certainly the best I’ve heard. Especially for the price.
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Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Interesting fact you have surfaced on serviceability.
Trying to find competent resilient service techs here is a pin in a haystack proposition. They swore it wasn’t a dry power switch connection. No further information was available. I wish...
Recently my Audio Research LS10 refused to turn on. It was an unsurprising final step after pressing the on-switch increasingly harder until it just stopped starting up.
Sure, I took it to the local service centre, here in Melbourne. And waited. And waited. Until 8 weeks passed. No call. No...
I owned the Berlins for three years or so. They were in a small to medium size room, powered by various amps, PassLabs XA25, Esoteric F05. Appearance: they were my wife's faves. I liked them so much I upgraded to the L'Instrument model. They are soundstage kings, the Berlins since first hearing...
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Thanks, mate.
They are large impressive and thankfully sound incredible. My wife hated their looks on paper but listening to them she told me I can keep them, phew! They’re works of art actually, that happen to sound fabulous too. Better than any other horns I’ve listened to...
Dear All who may visit here... thanks for stopping by.
I've finally reached Audio Nirvana and thought it was time I updated those who visit about my system changes.
As luck would have it, I found my end-of-search power amplifier in Perth Australia. It was one of a pair being used in mono...
I feel it’s excess actually.
I purchased the MB2SE when the horn speakers were delayed two years across the Covid period.
Now I simply have too much gear that needs to be monetized
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The amps I’ve got in hand at the moment are
ARC LS10SE preamp - very smooth full range - highs and lows are strong) and transparent clarity esp high end decay is a feature
ARC D240SE MK II - poweramp - strong amp with similar profile to the preamp.
PASSLABS M2SE - great poweramp that...
I found a simpler path and a cheaper path through Luxman. Having sold my 03Xs I’m not missing anything rather I’m able to enjoy great resolution without strain or harshness. I’m waiting for the return of my ARC Ref CD9. The unit had a power supply issue. I heard it only briefly before it failed...
Thanks for sharing your update.
I’ve just installed a Luxman M900u in my system and I’m cautiously confident that this is a keeper. Later this year December most likely I’ll return to Australia and pack up my D06u to ship here to see how it competes with my upgraded BDP Oppo and Pioneer...
Only on the various recordings made and published. I’d love to because I expect them to be significantly different in design and experience than traditional speakers.
That is an amazing result. The review I read in WhatHifi said it’s a detail beast. That put me off actually. Your review here is quite something after listening to Hans review of the Chord set you have on YT. I still may stay with my Lux D06u... great value
Can anyone suggest what you add to my esteemed ARC Ref CD9 SE to enable me to play SACD and DSD discs?
Please, no Esoteric. Give me your other thoughts and experiences that fit my situation please.
Thanks.
So I did a search here and didn’t find anything about these speakers or cables from this company based in Croatia.
Given this review on Mono and Stereo I was duly impressed.
https://www.monoandstereo.com/2016/12/colibri-labs-electrum-speakers-review.html
I had recently ‘met’ the designer...
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Did you go ahead with the Luxman D06u? Funnily enough I purchased a D06u and have it in my set up in Australia. It sounds good but I’m sure it would be even better in my master system. I’ve sold the K03Xs SE. And have no direct replacement other than two Blu ray players. Not the same...
Brief as it is this is a great comparison...
"I compared and auditioned LUXMAN's D-10X and D-03X, and ESOTERIC's K-03XD!
All three had their own personality, but the sound presence of the D-10X was amazing."
@sbo6 I rarely hear any gear first hand except in my villa here in Saudi Arabia. As you might guess...
So my primary source is my pair of Sony WH1000XM3 and whatever source videos are available. I’m comfortable with that having been here for more than six years. I’m pretty good at calibrating...