This is so much better mastered than Californication and Stadium Arcadium it's a shame. DR over 10 on each track, plenty of space for instruments to be themselves

Welp, my journey on the head-fi hype train is done (assuming my LCDX doesn't spontaneously die somehow). The interface on the top is a Sound Devices USB Pre2, which has the same internal DAC and ADC as their renowned 702T portable recorder. I would have been done with that had this Sangaku not...

New Levels New Devils - Polyphia An excellent foray into mathrock

Illum Sphere- Glass

This was based on the reviews user Torq gave on another headphone enthusiast website. At the time he was the only person I somewhat trust who had reviewed the units. That may have changed by now but I'm not sure since I haven't looked for reviews of the Ares and Pontus recently.

Gotta email Audeze and give them your S/N, they still have the pads for sale. They removed them form the storefront because so many people with M1060s were ordering them it was getting ridiculous.

Lukid- Lonely At The Top

Illum Sphere- Ghosts of Then and Now Worth a listen if you're a Lorn or Aphex Twin fan

Glad to hear you're pleased with it. Would be extremely happy with that combo myself

Nice to hear your impressions are similar to mine. Vocals definitely shine on the Sangaku, especially sultry female jazz. Highly recommend listening to Strange Fruit by Nina Simone or Black Coffee by Ella Fitzgerald; those tracks completely blew me away.

Picked up some Blue Mountain coffee yesterday, definitely the most unique coffee I've ever had Struggled to pull a shot right in my espresso machine, took 3 tries, but it was worth tinkering around Serious dark chocolate vibes with a slightly buttery top end. Very smooth for a dark roast...

fair enough, things have to be bought in certain orders sometimes

Do you have a DAC to run it with right now? Impressions plz

That's a real promotion. Surprised it's still going on Amazon since they ended it a few weeks ago on their website.

http://coffeebytheroast.com/single-origins ^ Site I was linked by Zach from ZMF. Turns out he's just as much of a Coffee nut as a headphone wizard. Can custom order roast levels, grind levels, etc.

Just because they don't need a lot of power to hit listening volume doesn't mean they don't improve with better power, which is what a higher end amp will deliver. Having cleaner signal amplification will benefit any can resolving enough to hear the difference.

Based on the more recent reviews I've seen of Denafrips Pontus and Ares, they're not worth getting. The Soekris Dac1541 however, seems to be on equal footing with Gumby with even slightly more clarity and a flatter sound, so it would pair well with Sangaku if you don't want an overly warm...

I used both the dac of my NFB10-ES2 and a Meridian Explorer Sounded a bit better off the NFB, slightly more clarity and upper end, but that's kind of stereotypical of Sabre dacs.

+1 want to see how your impressions line up with mine

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