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"Oh, and I said before that I could always keep one pair and sell the other, but that just isn't going to happen. It's perfectly acceptable to have a favorite
Japanese and a favorite
German restaurant."
haha, I'll drink a beer to that!
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haha, I'll drink a beer to that!
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We have a sickness gents...lol. The restaurant analogy is very true...except many times with food I can accept a less than perfect meal, and with audio I'm always chasing elusive nirvana...
I'm doing that snobby eliteist audiophile thing right now and listening to a FLAC rip of Diana Krall's "Live in Paris" on the J3 with the Beyers, and...it's one of those moments of pure trancendant joy, when everything comes together...a fantastic recording, a brilliant performance, a great file/media/rip, awesome hardware, and stellar cans (the Beyers, not Dianas, lol). I'm very much NOT a jazz fan, but my god, I could melt into this recording. The T50p's still have a long ways to go as far as being settled in...there's a hint of sibilance in the upper registers of some notes, bass is shy, but the mids are fantastic! There's detail and speed and clarity that I've never encountered before...the brushes on the snare on "Maybe You'll Be There" for example: it's not just a "shush"ing noise, you can hear the difference when the drummer changes direction. Instrument placement is spot perfect. The natural reverb of the venue adds much dimensionality that the Beyers capture beautifully. The hammers falling on the strings in her piano and the transients...wow to all of it.
I'd listen to it all again with the AT's but they are in a room that I have a guest sleeping in at the moment, so I can't do a back and forth comparison at this time unfortunately. Much more to come later.
Oh, and I said before that I could always keep one pair and sell the other, but that just isn't going to happen. It's perfectly acceptable to have a favoriteJapanese and a favoriteGerman restaurant.