Russ- I think you might just love it. I got it home, set it up as if I were going to keep it forever. I had to do some cabinet drilling & mods to put it side by side w/ the Triton. Plugged it in and went out for a 4 hour gallery opening, Got home and...........it just was magical! We listened until 2 am. Beyond a doubt it is remarkable.
Having said this I realize I am one who listens to a very diverse range of music & love the TT combo in particular because it actually sounds like real instruments w/ decay, ambient information and spatial information. The soundstage is simply huge & only limited by the recording itself and the space of one's listening room. My space is a perfect venue to show off the TT combo so I love love it!
A word about bass/LF abilities: The TT combo can reproduce very low level info that is almost scary in it's presence. Our audiophile cat, a japanese bobtail who has huge ears was perplexed as she tracked spatial clues in a constant 360 degree motion.
You must have a birthday coming up!!!
Mark,
I have now had a Typhon in my system for 6 days. Ironically it came as part of my latest Shunyata order that also included 5 Alpha HC PC's to replace a bunch of Anaconda's that I sold to generate enough money to buy the Typhon and still be able to pay for my daughter's wedding.
Due to my circumstances and the prolonged break-in with a bunch of Alpha Digital PC's I inserted the Typhon into an available socket of a dedicated SRZ1 outlet in parallel to my Spectral 260, which was running on a temporary PC (a HT AC-10) while its new PC broke in. My Triton was also offline because its new PC a 20A Alpha HC was also part of the 5 cord break-in daisy chain powering fan. Granted the Typhon had a brand new Typhon A-HC umbilical connecting it to the wall so the odds were against a good showing for the Typhon out of the box.
Well, let's say that out of the box (less than 10 minutes with a new umbilical) I was already blown away. I had been without a Triton, Anaconda's and a Python for 3 weeks while my new cords were built and shipped. During that time, I simply lost my interest in listening to music because my system sounded like a lifeless system, made up of various components again, and not like the live music it sounded like before I sold all of my previous Anaconda's, including the one powering the Triton.
The insertion of the Typhon in parallel to my amp, powered by an inferior cord brought back at least half of what I lost, and I still did not have the Trition in the system. During the next 4 days the sound improved dramatically as the Typhon and its umbilical settled in. At times, when thinking about paying for a wedding, I wondered if I needed the other power cords and the Triton.
Then yesterday I started inserting the Alpha HC's one by one with at least 8 hours between additional insertions. The first one went into the Spectral, on the same duplex as the Typhon. The sound improvement was instant, although bass deficient as judged by the Fairfield Four basso, but the articulation and imaging were now better than what I had before I began this most recent shift, and still no Triton. Last night I added another Alpha HC to my tube preamp that I plugged into another duplex on the same circuit as the Typhon and Spectral. Initially this was a step backwards, but then started to come to life after about an hour or two of annealing. Now I was definitely ahead of where I was pre change, but still no Triton in the system
Today, I put another Alpha HC into the Triton into another dedicated circuit and then shifted my other 5 Shunyata Alpha Digitals, plus the Alpha HC plugged into my preamp into the Triton, but still left the Typhon in the same circuit in parallel with the Spectral. At first, due to all of the unplugging and then replugging into the Triton in combination with the Triton being off for 4 weeks, plus a new Alpha HC connecting it to the wall, the sound was darn unimpressive, probably due largely to the need for annealing.
Now 4 hours later, the sound is already in the range of definitely superior to what I had pre change, although the bass is not fully there because I have not inserted the two remaining Alpha HC's into my JL F 113's, which is supposed where they are supposed to shine according to Caelin.
I am going to insert the remaining two Alpha HC's in the JL's after I take Myrtle for a walk, but leave the Typhon in place for 2-3 days before trying it directly into the Triton as Caelin suggests. The problem is that I will surely miss it in the amp/sub circuit, probably meaning that I will now have to ask my daughter to drop some guests from her wedding so that I can afford another Typhon. However, there is another wild card that will not comment on now because it is truly baffling me in a very positive manner, namely the insertion of a Defender into the front end in parallel and now plugged into the Triton.
