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In Reply to: BTW, How Did The Audition Ultimately Go? posted by AnalogJ on May 2, 2012 at 15:18:15:
Hi,
I just finished the audition period. I ended up sending the Saturn back, unfortunately. It was a close call as the Saturn definitely does many things right, but it just lacked a natural sense of dynamics, a bit of 'slam' and 'attack', not in a forward way, but just in a way which is there in live music?
The Saturn is a lovely player, and I mean that in all respects, it's refined and sweet sounding, but real live music isn't always like that, and nor was the player I'm used to, so it just didn't send shivers down my spine at the right moments. I felt it was always holding something back and needed to just let it's hair down!
That's all highly subjective of course, and is only in my system, so must be taken as such. It also sounds over critical, whereas, as I say, it was doing most things right, and had the most unforced detail and transparency I've ever heard from any digital source, so wonderful in many ways, just not quite right for my tastes.
I'm going to try a TeddyDAC, which I keep hearing good things about, and probably a Rega DAC, maybe with an Apollo as a transport (I get the feeling it might be the output stage which lets the Saturn down a bit, I think the disc-reading/data retrieval is probably nigh-on perfect, so might be very very good as a transport...
Cheers,
James
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