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This is THE great day :-)
This is THE great day :-)
I wish to enjoy with you my next speakers after Simon's Elipsas :-) They arrived today..
Dgt: MSB Analog,MacMini,Audirvana+,HQPlayer Analog: Technics SL1210mk2, Dyna XX2 Mk2, Lehmann Decade Amp: Spectral DMC 15SS + Spectral DMA 200S2 Spkr: Wilson Sophia 3 Cbl: Spectral UL-38 HD/MIT SL-Matrix 26
Re: This is THE great day :-)
Fantastic. Congratulations Max! Now the break-in...
Nerdcave: ...is no more! 
Sitting Room: Wadia 581SE - Rega Planar 3/AT VM95ML & SH - Bluesound Node II - Copland CSA 100 - Audioplan Kontrast 3
Kitchen: WiiM Pro - Wadia 151 - B&W 685s2
Sitting Room: Wadia 581SE - Rega Planar 3/AT VM95ML & SH - Bluesound Node II - Copland CSA 100 - Audioplan Kontrast 3
Kitchen: WiiM Pro - Wadia 151 - B&W 685s2
Re: This is THE great day :-)
Beautiful. Many years of enjoyment Max.
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Thorens TD124 Mk1 + Kuzma Stogi 12"arm, HANA Red, Gold Note PH 10 + PSU. ADI-2 Dac, Lector CDP7, Wyred4Sound pre, Airtight ATM1s, Klipsch Heresy IV, Misc Mains, RCA + XLR ICs, Tellurium Q spkr cable
Re: This is THE great day :-)
Congratulations on your new speakers Maz, may they give you many years of great listening pleasure.
"To appreciate the greatness of the Masters is to keep faith in the greatness of humanity." - Wilhelm Furtwängler
Re: This is THE great day :-)
Hope you enjoy breaking them in with proper music - see below ;)
Re: This is THE great day :-)
Best of luck with them Max look forward to hearing your impressions on them. Serious looking kit I hope they live up to expectations.
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Re: This is THE great day :-)
Congrats, they look like Sophias. Really nice speakers
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Re: This is THE great day :-)
First of all, thanks everybody, I'm not died after listening Sophias ah ah : these are only the busy days before Christmas ;)
But I'm writing a post about my first impressions...
But I'm writing a post about my first impressions...
Dgt: MSB Analog,MacMini,Audirvana+,HQPlayer Analog: Technics SL1210mk2, Dyna XX2 Mk2, Lehmann Decade Amp: Spectral DMC 15SS + Spectral DMA 200S2 Spkr: Wilson Sophia 3 Cbl: Spectral UL-38 HD/MIT SL-Matrix 26
Re: This is THE great day :-)
Glad you're still alive! First impressions can take a long time to figure out. ;)
Nerdcave: ...is no more!
Sitting Room: Wadia 581SE - Rega Planar 3/AT VM95ML & SH - Bluesound Node II - Copland CSA 100 - Audioplan Kontrast 3
Kitchen: WiiM Pro - Wadia 151 - B&W 685s2
Sitting Room: Wadia 581SE - Rega Planar 3/AT VM95ML & SH - Bluesound Node II - Copland CSA 100 - Audioplan Kontrast 3
Kitchen: WiiM Pro - Wadia 151 - B&W 685s2
Re: This is THE great day :-)
It's time to post some listening impressions...
The comparison between my old speakers, Sonus Faber Elipsa Red, is hard to describe because for some aspects, starting from build phylosophy, these are in the opposite side.
Two ways for obtaining great music at the end.
Visual Impact.
The Sophias look is far better live than in photos. Moderate WAF. To be honest the Sonus Faber Elipsa Red WAF was under zero in my home with modern furniture ;)
Knocking them: absolutely non-resonant sides, they feels a great sense of solidity.
Sound in break-in period.
To be frank, I forgotten how "bad" can sound a new speaker ;)
Break-in period written in the manual, 24 hours at moderate volume level in order to obtain 90% performance, is substantially correct. They changed a lot after listening 3-4 days. For me 50 hours is correct for break-in total time.
First hours was frustrating and a good tonal balance was only reached connecting my DAC directly to power amp, bypassing the preamplifier: the sound was chocked, especially the bass frequencies.
This was the first time I felt good whan listening a source directly connected to a power amp. But was only during break-in, now it is like before and my previous experiences was confirmed again, phew.
In the next days the speaker gain a lot of articulation, at the end the preamplifier was back in its place :)
Sound in the present time.
It's hard to say something new about these speakers: a lot of words has been spent in many reviews all over the world.
When I listen to an equipment I always think about the first word that came in my mind. In this case the first word is "amusing" (the first word for Sonus Faber Elipsa Red was "seductive").
Amusing because these speakers have a high level of coherency between the transducers, very low distorsion that invite you to listen everything with high level volume, the same low distortion that give you the sense of transparency when listeniong every nuance at low volume.
Spectral and Wilson is a consolidated sinergy.
Highly recommended, the transparency of Spectral is rendered at its best on Wilsons, and the result is a scene sculpted into the marble, every instrument is clearly identifiable in space, and the "black" between the instruments is very strong.
Amusing because, with these premises, the system can absorb any music genre, from Industrial Metal to Renaiisance Music and render it at its best.
Amusing because this is the PRAT definition ;)
Any question.. is welcome !
cheers,
Max
The comparison between my old speakers, Sonus Faber Elipsa Red, is hard to describe because for some aspects, starting from build phylosophy, these are in the opposite side.
Two ways for obtaining great music at the end.
Visual Impact.
The Sophias look is far better live than in photos. Moderate WAF. To be honest the Sonus Faber Elipsa Red WAF was under zero in my home with modern furniture ;)
Knocking them: absolutely non-resonant sides, they feels a great sense of solidity.
Sound in break-in period.
To be frank, I forgotten how "bad" can sound a new speaker ;)
Break-in period written in the manual, 24 hours at moderate volume level in order to obtain 90% performance, is substantially correct. They changed a lot after listening 3-4 days. For me 50 hours is correct for break-in total time.
First hours was frustrating and a good tonal balance was only reached connecting my DAC directly to power amp, bypassing the preamplifier: the sound was chocked, especially the bass frequencies.
This was the first time I felt good whan listening a source directly connected to a power amp. But was only during break-in, now it is like before and my previous experiences was confirmed again, phew.
In the next days the speaker gain a lot of articulation, at the end the preamplifier was back in its place :)
Sound in the present time.
It's hard to say something new about these speakers: a lot of words has been spent in many reviews all over the world.
When I listen to an equipment I always think about the first word that came in my mind. In this case the first word is "amusing" (the first word for Sonus Faber Elipsa Red was "seductive").
Amusing because these speakers have a high level of coherency between the transducers, very low distorsion that invite you to listen everything with high level volume, the same low distortion that give you the sense of transparency when listeniong every nuance at low volume.
Spectral and Wilson is a consolidated sinergy.
Highly recommended, the transparency of Spectral is rendered at its best on Wilsons, and the result is a scene sculpted into the marble, every instrument is clearly identifiable in space, and the "black" between the instruments is very strong.
Amusing because, with these premises, the system can absorb any music genre, from Industrial Metal to Renaiisance Music and render it at its best.
Amusing because this is the PRAT definition ;)
Any question.. is welcome !
cheers,
Max
Dgt: MSB Analog,MacMini,Audirvana+,HQPlayer Analog: Technics SL1210mk2, Dyna XX2 Mk2, Lehmann Decade Amp: Spectral DMC 15SS + Spectral DMA 200S2 Spkr: Wilson Sophia 3 Cbl: Spectral UL-38 HD/MIT SL-Matrix 26