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In Reply to: RE: System-building around a dCS P8i? posted by Asrale on May 18, 2008 at 05:51:49

DCS players/combos sound very transparent and sometimes slightly lean.
At least that is how I felt their products sounded on three different auditions/systems. This could be just the right thing, if you do not overdo the "transparency" thing.
However, if you add similar-sounding components like a silver PC + silver cables + electrostatic headphones, I would say that you may end barking up a very lean tree, from a tonal balance perspective. Mind I am not criticizing the quality of your chosen components, they have their merits, my advice is centered on tonal balance only, which is very important to avoid listener fatigue.
Your system will have lots of resolution, but I bet it will sound relentless, specially with non-audiophile recordings.
Try good old-fashioned copper cables to achieve a flatter subjective tonal balance. I like Tara Labs, amongst many great cable brands.

Also, a warning: watch the volume knob. A friend of mine got tinnitus by listening daily to electrostatic phones, because his phone system was so clean and lean that he ended up listening at very high levels. Again, this is not a product defect...most dynamic phones sound strained at very loud levels, therefore the user backs off. Not so with high quality ES phones.
Good luck

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