Mike, I'm not the one who's religious on such stringently controlled A/Bs. Guys like PeterA are the ones who often intimate a compare can't be strictly accurate in drawing hard and fast conclusions unless all is equivalent. Me? I'm very happy to draw reasonable inferences from just the kind of comparison you've recently made.
One thing you can elaborate on. Your initial impressions on the Lamms in yr room was whole favourable, but it soon became apparent that they were best suited to more intimate material, less so to full tilt wildly dynamic orchestral, the latter better served by yr Dart monos, which were also not embarassed by the Lamms on that smaller scale music. The conclusion being the Darts were universally better suited to a broader range of music IN YOUR ROOM.
My take on what you've just described on the NVS v Saskia looks reminiscent of the Darts v Lamms situation. The Saskia proving brilliant on smaller scale stuff, the NVS doing the broad spectrum music better, while also great at intimacy.
Is it fair or accurate to draw parallels?
One thing you can elaborate on. Your initial impressions on the Lamms in yr room was whole favourable, but it soon became apparent that they were best suited to more intimate material, less so to full tilt wildly dynamic orchestral, the latter better served by yr Dart monos, which were also not embarassed by the Lamms on that smaller scale music. The conclusion being the Darts were universally better suited to a broader range of music IN YOUR ROOM.
My take on what you've just described on the NVS v Saskia looks reminiscent of the Darts v Lamms situation. The Saskia proving brilliant on smaller scale stuff, the NVS doing the broad spectrum music better, while also great at intimacy.
Is it fair or accurate to draw parallels?