And as I am SET 4 Lyfe I have no need for balanced. Reading impressions, given I wanted something a little calmer, and prefer lean and dry to warm and sweet, I figured the Edition fitted the bill better than the Signature. So, I was looking for something that would fix these points while also delivering moar plankton and microdynamics. sometimes I wanted it to calm the F down a bit. Something like Weyes Blood Titanic Rising is grand and nicely produced, but the mastering is a bit marginal and it got pretty relentless on the Yggdrasil. I liked the forwardness but sometimes it was a bit much in my chain.Listening to Wire Pink Flag the guitar tones sound quite off, with a slight bubble-gum edge, almost like the bad old ESS Sabre though nowhere near as egregious. Mid tonality was not completely convincing.Despite heroic efforts to mitigate, it was always a bit sibilant.Nonetheless I still had a few issues with it: My DAC for the last 5 years has been Yggdrasil, first A1 then A2, which after endless tweaking I have got to perform about as well as I think is possible. Think Donald Fagen's The Nightfly if it was ADD rather than DDD.įor amp and transducer I have Aficionado (reputedly the driest of the recent EC amps and with plenty of mid-high energy) and the Omega 3i's (which are ultra-fast and forward and live in the midrange). My preferred sound is quite dry, neutral bordering on thin/bright (slope up preferred to slope down), super fast, delicate, but with plenty of low-level detail, immediacy and microdynamic variation. Part 0 - Torq-esque blueballs drivel (skip to the end) So keep those high-end impressions coming! Basically SBAF is unique in having members who are not deaf, are able to describe critically what they are hearing, and can compare against known referents in an accurate manner, and this is an even more important service for the top-shelf gear that you can't just churn through. Useful enough, in fact, that I want to argue against the saw that when audiophiles reach level 14 and gain double wielding they should graduate from SBAF and embark on their own heady voyages.
First a BIG THANK YOU for the impressions on this thread from which were super useful in getting me here. I've had the Wavedream for about four weeks now and so wanted to share some impressions and thoughts.
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