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matthewb
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first up is this system with Vimberg speakers, Metronome DAC/streamer, Vinnie Rossi hybrid tube/solid-state amps and preamp. $120k+ USD total. pretty meh, nothing special. had some weird colouration, tonality didn’t sound right to me. honestly if I were an outsider to the industry and walked in, I’d never guess this was worth the same $$ as a really nice car.
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matthewb
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last up is this system with Audio Note everything: speakers, tube amp and preamp, turntable, tube phono, CD player, tube DAC. even cables are Audio Note. $60k+ USD total. decidedly different from everything else in the show. this system had the most emotion of anything we listened to, you totally forgot about the gear and got swept up in the music. they also brought in a live cellist to play chamber music along with the recording to show how lifelike the system reproduces acoustic instruments. of course you can tell the difference but it sounds spooky real. even though the speakers look wimpy, they use extreme corner placement and the boundary effect to reach down to 18Hz in-room. sure it’s not earth shaking bass but for their size it’s remarkable and their suggested placement makes them very room-friendly.
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