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Yeah, the Abyss is surprisingly easy to drive. If you decide to sell your WA234, please PM me.
This may surprise some people but I am getting a better sound out of the Abyss using the DAVE directly than I am out of my Woo 234's, I have tried a number of different tubes and haven't finished yet with experimenting but thats how its looking. The DAVE and Abyss are a magical combination.
Yeah, the Abyss is surprisingly easy to drive. If you decide to sell your WA234, please PM me.
To clarify, I like how intimate and how well presented the mids on the LCD-4 are. They lull me to them.
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Heard the Abyss through the Chord Hugo today compared to the idsd Micro and I thought the pairing was pretty bad to be honest. The ifi really manhandled it. The owner of the Hugo seemed to hold the same opinion.
Heard the Abyss through the Chord Hugo today compared to the idsd Micro and I thought the pairing was pretty bad to be honest. The ifi really manhandled it. The owner of the Hugo seemed to hold the same opinion.
Manhandle it in a good way i assume, so you taught the Ifi Micro where the clear winner then?
I have them both on display in our shop, and the Ifi puts out about 1.4 watts in turbo mode , whereas the Hugo just about 0,5 watts in 46 Ohms. But there is a but, the sound of the Hugo are more vivid with greater timing , depht and ultra fine detail.
Yeah a very good way and yes the clear winner. I genuinely found the synergy with the Hugo to be completely unsatisfying. Shrill, sharp, edgy, bright and just very unpleasant. Used the same 3 songs and did not alter the positioning of the Abyss during the test. Out of the 3 songs the Hugo sounded its strongest (not by much) with the electronic based song but the other two that were a vocal based song and classical were pretty horrific.Manhandle it in a good way i assume, so you taught the Ifi Micro where the clear winner then?
I have them both on display in our shop, and the Ifi puts out about 1.4 watts in turbo mode , whereas the Hugo just about 0,5 watts in 46 Ohms. But there is a but, the sound of the Hugo are more vivid with greater timing , depht and ultra fine detail.
Also when I was at the shop, there were two customers auditioning headphones, and both had put the Abyss on for about 5 minutes and took it straight off. When I asked them how they found it and they told me this, I took them individually into the spare room I was using to listen to the Stax models, hooked up the Abyss to my Ifi, gave them a quick lesson in how it should be fit, put on some of my best showcase songs, and watched their jaws drop.
The first guy was being that vocal in how impressed he was, the shop owner had to shut the two doors that were between us and the other auditioning room.