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  1. marmota

    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    There's no replacement for displacement. Same with higher efficiency/sensitivity and low distortion. No small speaker is high end, regardless of price. I agree with @Taiko Audio and @bonzo75, the only progress made is in materials, downsizing and cosmetics. I really like what Lawrence Dickie...
  2. marmota

    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    Thanks! Very interesting, do you guys know about the woofer size and the price (and if the enclosure is ported or sealed)? Must sound very good, seems very well designed at first glance. The idea of mating the small Scanspeak midrange to the horn is great IMO. Oh and the Crystal Cable speakers...
  3. marmota

    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    Any info on this new Cessaro speaker?
  4. marmota

    Munich show 2023 Hifideluxe and MOC .

    This new speaker by Cyrstal Cable is VERY interesting: https://crystalcable.com/minissimo-forte/ https://6moons.com/industry_articles/dawid-does-munich-2023/2/ TL;DR: it has a passive-active crossover, meaning it uses a buffer stage that replaces plenty of crossover parts (yet the speakers...
  5. marmota

    Thorens New TT

    Looks good, nice to see an official Reference successor. The most similar would be the discontinued Rolf Kelch Reference 2 and is extremely rare, barely pops up in the used market. The Rolf Kelch Reference 2 looks better tho.
  6. marmota

    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    No comments, as it will only lead to a 303930339 page long discussion about semantics, like the ones you had with DDK.
  7. marmota

    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    Lol realized now it says 10 foot and not 10 inches, good catch! Gotta pay more attention next time, being used to the metric system and writing in inches/feet is very confusing lmao
  8. marmota

    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    No such a thing as reasonably priced and good analog setup IMO, unless you understand 30-40k eur for phono+tonearm+cartridge+turntable (even second hand prices) as reasonably cheap. To clarify, I do not see lightweight turntables, DC motors with negative feedback, and 12a_7 family tubes non...
  9. marmota

    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    Don't get me wrong, there's very thin, lifeless sounding digital out there, and very thick, smooth, warm sounding analog. But saying all digital is acrylics and all analog is oil painting is a very broad generalization IMO. There's plenty of shrill, thin sounding analog setups out there, just...
  10. marmota

    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    There's no such a thing as a digital or analog sound. Analog setups sound vastly different among each other, and dacs too. I understand the analogy but I do not agree, unless we are talking about mid fi.
  11. marmota

    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    True. When I listened to a good sounding DAC, I just enjoyed music and didn't think about anything else. Sure, a setup with the AS2000, top tier tonearm + cartridge + custom tube phono stage playing a 100% analog recorded and mastered, first press pristine record would sound much better side by...
  12. marmota

    How do you know what you want from your audio system?

    Thanks for sharing your journey with me! IMO, you have to take two things into account: 1) Transformers > tubes. The quality of the transformers and the topology used are way more important than the tubes. For example, GM70 tubes can make up to 32 watts in class A1, if you use them at 8 watts...
  13. marmota

    All New Yamaha NS 5000 Speakers..... World-Beaters ?

    I absolutely adore that they used the same material to build all the drivers, so the tonality remains coherent in the entire frequency range. All manufacturers that want to build a coherent sounding multi way speaker should do this, no excuses other than lack of budget for comissioning the...
  14. marmota

    CH Precision M10 Impressions

    Very understandable, thanks for the honest reply. If you don't mind the question, do you think the MSB has a more "analog" tone than the Wadax?
  15. marmota

    CH Precision M10 Impressions

    Beautiful system, congrats! What are your thoughts about the Wadax DAC and Server compared to the MSB Select 2 you had before? How does the Wadax sound with regards to tonality, perceived naturalness and resolution compared to the MSB?
  16. marmota

    MQA Declares Bankruptcy

    It was a commendable cash grab atttempt. Many people also appreciates things like stealing, coprophagy or sharing their wives with others (to name just a few examples), so I'm afraid that isn't a valid argument. Our conversation ends here btw, don't want to spend years and thousands of posts...
  17. marmota

    MQA Declares Bankruptcy

    It sounds worse, not different. Him and everyone are free to use the ignore button, no need to go anywhere.
  18. marmota

    MQA Declares Bankruptcy

    They love the sound of the remasters. Most MQA tracks I've heard have been studio remasters, and of course would have sounded way better in non lossy, non "unfolded" 16/44.1khz FLAC. That's how shady MQA is, they didin't even allow for an apples to apples comparison most of the time. You are a...
  19. marmota

    MQA Declares Bankruptcy

    Good riddance. Schiit was right when they said this: MQA was just a glorified form of mp3-esque compression. I hope it never comes back and accepts it faith and logical destiny since the beginning: become forgotten like DAT and HDCD.
  20. marmota

    Robert Koda K160 Amps are on their way finally!

    +1 I would love to see an integrated with trickled down tech from the K160 and the K10-15 preamps, with remote control too and at a lower price point (around 20-30k, like other high end integrateds from ie Vitus or Dartzeel to name a few). That would be awesome.
  21. marmota

    Natural Sound

    Love reading your posts, always very well explained and with tons of knowledge, with info that is often not found anywhere else.
  22. marmota

    47 Labs Koma

    Watching the thread. Very interesting turntable which is reasonably priced and comes from an innovative, well established manufacturer. Would also like to read people's experience with it and the matching Tsurube tonearm.
  23. marmota

    Bergmann Galder + Odin Signature

    That's amazing. I wonder how it sounds vs not just the regular Galder, but compared to the 40kg copper platter version too: (picture taken from Bergmann's Facebook) <iframe...
  24. marmota

    Saskia model two

    @spiritofmusic amigo that Saskia has your name on it and you know it, time to wisely spend some pesetas :cool:
  25. marmota

    Organic Audio cables

    Watching this thread. Very interesting company, the connectors are made by them, from the same material as the conductors and attached without solder joints. Makes other companies seem lazy and unoriginal by comparison. There are very, very few impressions on the internet about Organic Audio, I...
  26. marmota

    Visit to Audiophile Bill to hear his horns project

    Agree, couldn't have said it better. @beaur you should read Bill's field coil thread and this one, his approach is anything but cost saving.
  27. marmota

    Visit to Audiophile Bill to hear his horns project

    Everything is a compromise, in a best case scenario he could have AER to build a 15' driver with the same materials as the one used in the Pnoe, and then build a separate horn with the same topology and materials as the Pnoe's that goes down to 20hz (which would be ridiculously huge and...
  28. marmota

    Visit to Audiophile Bill to hear his horns project

    What an interesting turn of events, those Pnoe horns must be awesome to prefer them over his speakers. I think I know how this ends: Bill spends years building a wood version of the Pnoe horn and comissions a custom made field coild driver for it with a custom power supply made by Thomas Mayer...
  29. marmota

    Natural Sound

    This sounds so much denser, relaxed and energized at the same compared to the one with the Micro Seiki SX8000II. Actually amazing difference. The one with the AS1000 also sounds better than the Micro Seiki but not to this degree. Bass here is great, and love how it handles sibilances, must be...
  30. marmota

    Visit to Audiophile Bill to hear his horns project

    I was very sad reading that Bill would leave WBF, but I think that him starting a blog would actually be a good move, kinda like the speaker building equivalent of Thomas Mayer. Just imagine what would happen if Thomas Mayer posted here instead of in his own blog (Vinylsavor), the valuable...

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