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In Reply to: Went to a hifi show today in Switzerland... posted by morricab on October 19, 2014 at 14:55:10:
The Swiss dealer for Audio Note (UK not Kondo) had an all Audio Note system that was using the DAC 4, Meishu Silver signature phono, a TT1 turntable but with the mid level arm and lowest level IO cartridge. Speakers were the AN E something or other but with hemp driver and silver voice coils and an outboard crossover.
The speakers were spread quite wide apart and near the corners so bass was pretty strong but also pretty boomy. Image focus was nearly non-existent and dynamics were somewhat subdued...especially compared to the Ypsilon system. To color was pretty nice but the coherence of the whole sound was only average and the transparency was likewise mediocre. I thought I could hear the box interferring with the sound and this could have been affecting resolution and transparency.
I wanted to believe that the Meishu and DAC 4 are capable of much more because they seem to be as well made inside as Ypsilon and use a lot of supposedly high quality iron (the output transformers in the Meishu were quite large for a 300B amp) but it never got off the ground sonically.
Overall, it was smooth, easy with full (overly?) bass and nice musically pleasing tone but not a sound like the real thing...this you had to go hear the Ypsilon room to get. Maybe people are looking for this kind of sound as it is somewhat relaxing?
I was surprised because Peter Q. is (in)famous for his white paper on picking a system that maximizes contrast between recordings as being more correct and in fact I found that this rather expensive AN system did not do that very well because of its inherent colorations. The Ypsilon system was VERY good at this without losing musicality (very difficult from my experience).
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