That's it? No comments? No color? No comparisons? We want to know! ...in all seriousness, how does it compare with other SOTA preamps you have listened to? Congrats, BTW...that is some serious electronics you have on your hands.
Lloyd . Will write up my thoughts , once it settles in and I listen some more . Only inserted it today , into my chain . Thanks for the good wishes , much appreciated .
Does the Nikon ME-1 stereo microphone I just bought to attach to my Nikon D5100 count? I plan on shooting a high-def clip of my stereo system with the sound recorded in stereo. Hopefully it will look and sound better than the clips I shot using my Sony Cybershot. I don't know how far you can push the sound quality once it gets uploaded to YouTube.
Lloyd . Will write up my thoughts , once it settles in and I listen some more . Only inserted it today , into my chain . Thanks for the good wishes , much appreciated .
I've been (and still am) a long-time Audio Research aficionado, but recently decided to splurge on my system and bought a new Spectral DMC 30SS, series 2 preamp paired with DMA 360s2 monoblocks. New Spectral/MIT cables as well, so aside from the speakers and CD player, it is new from the ground up. I'm still tweaking the positioning of the speakers and some minor room stuff, but it has been fun...
Relatively new to the board, but really enjoy it--lots of very knowledgable folks here who have been very helpful. Now, shutting down the laptop and headed to the listening room to play some music...!
I acquired another Real Traps room treatment product. This time a 'mini trap' that will go on the wall behind the listening position. Acoustic room treatments are IMHO possibly more important than any other upgrade one can make in the system. Not "sexy" but so VERY important. It still amazes me how many people have spent thousands on gear and nothing on room treatments.
I acquired another Real Traps room treatment product. This time a 'mini trap' that will go on the wall behind the listening position. Acoustic room treatments are IMHO possibly more important than any other upgrade one can make in the system. Not "sexy" but so VERY important. It still amazes me how many people have spent thousands on gear and nothing on room treatments.
Are you aware that the traps can be ordered as full range absorption in addition to bass trapping only ? I recommend full frequency trap option for one's placed behind the listening position. I use three mondo full range traps behind my seat.
Hi Christian, thanks for the heads-up. I was aware of that and this is the kind that I am using ( full range). Due to my room size, I'm only going to be using one trap. BTW, a friend of mine says that one should only place acoustic traps on the wall so that a maximum of 1/2 of the wall is covered. Have you heard this?
So correct. People will buy $1000 power cords; multi-thousand dollar interconnects; $12,000 preamps; $40,000 amplifiers; and $70,000 CD players.
And the sum of those products will come in a far distant second in audible improvements to what a few thousand dollars in well placed acoustic treatments will provide. Dollar for dollar, companies like GIK, RealTraps, RPG and a few others easily provide the best (but as noted, the least sexy) "audio" products available.
And while a family room that doubles as a listening room presents some challenges relative to the cosmetic appeal of some of these treatments, there are solutions to those issues as well. (e.g. GIK Art Panels, heavy drapes, well place wall hangings, etc.)
Acoustic room treatments are IMHO possibly more important than any other upgrade one can make in the system. Not "sexy" but so VERY important. It still amazes me how many people have spent thousands on gear and nothing on room treatments.
Acoustic room treatments is generic term that can cover anything you put in your room - my two very comfortable leather large armchairs changed more in the acoustics of the room than two diffusors of similar size. And, from my limited experience, adding the wrong treatments can do more bad than good - most of the treated rooms where I have been had poor acoustics. Unless the treatments are done by experienced and trusty people, you risk entering in a never ending process. At less changing cables is less tiresome and easily reversible (except for your wallet)
It is curious that many people love to write about expectation bias in equipment but no one writes about it about bias expectation in room treatments.
Disclaimer - my room is now acoustically treated. It took me more than four years of experiments and it is not yet optimum. But I could not find an acceptable complete solution in my country. And, until now, no room treatment could make my cd player sound as good as a DCS Vivaldi.
In the house .. Metronome Kalista Reference ... even cold out the box , the sense of effortlessness is startling. A 1 Farad PSU , so lot of caps to break in . Running it with a Vitus Masterpiece DAC with Stillpoint Ultra SS beneath . Looking for feedback on Digital leads and PC's from fellow Kalista owners. Thanks .
In the house .. Metronome Kalista Reference ... even cold out the box , the sense of effortlessness is startling. A 1 Farad PSU , so lot of caps to break in . Running it with a Vitus Masterpiece DAC with Stillpoint Ultra SS beneath . Looking for feedback on Digital leads and PC's from fellow Kalista owners. Thanks .
I was the user, not the owner, for two weeks of the Kalista Reference plus the C2A DAC. It came with an Odin digital cable and I did not have the opportunity to try another cable. You found a good word to describe its sound quality - effortless. I would add ultra-detailed without being etched. Still missing them. But I could not find the courage to spend so much in a CD transport.
The Odin costs almost as much as the transport , I am at present using an ordinary Kimber SPDIF lead , the AES/EBU does bear investigation the Vitus being a balanced design . I have a ZenSati Cherub on the Kalista , to which it seems to be responding well .
Lamm ML2 to try out.
Inspected & serviced by Lamm California rep & new tubes installed.
Actually drove down to pick up as I did not want to ship the two monoblocks [even with the Lamm crates].
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The Odin costs almost as much as the transport , I am at present using an ordinary Kimber SPDIF lead , the AES/EBU does bear investigation the Vitus being a balanced design . I have a ZenSati Cherub on the Kalista , to which it seems to be responding well .
The Metronome Distributor here tends to use AES (TA Ref). People talk a lot about Stealth Sextet and Odin digicables. I know 'Teajay' on Audiogon replaced his Sextet with a Sablon Audio digital cable...I know the owner of Sablon who is a seriously dedicated audiophile and a great guy. no affiliation and ymmv.
The Metronome Distributor here tends to use AES (TA Ref). People talk a lot about Stealth Sextet and Odin digicables. I know 'Teajay' on Audiogon replaced his Sextet with a Sablon Audio digital cable...I know the owner of Sablon who is a seriously dedicated audiophile and a great guy. no affiliation and ymmv.
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