Lorspeaker
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Slurpsss...more pls.
Hey there, Audio GD is offering a new powerful all in one setup from early this July. Master 11 seems originate from master 7 and master 9 based on A-GD description. 9w@40ohm(class A) and 4 pm 1704 UK from Texas instrument.
It looks like pair well with my he1000. A great bargain for he560s/ LCD series and even Abyss.
My master 11 has been shipped out today. I will post impressions later when I back to state.
Oh, another thing.... The M11 doesn't get that hot. FYI
Give it time. It has a much larger heatsink surface so it will take more time to heat up and settle. 24 hours should be enough though. That and you'd want to feel the bottom to get an idea of the heat.
I'm most interested in what you have to say about the M11.
Kingwa's Ace up his sleeve has been played.
I didn't expect to be impressed as much as I have been so far. TRANSPARENT! Surely it's "new toy" phase and maybe it will fade??? no! probably not. This M11 really is freq'n amazing
I could bore a lot of people and tell them basically what they expect to hear... Kingwa states it on his website that this M11 is extremely revealing... quote "It allows users to hear the flaws and perfections of the source recording (matched with a revealing power amp, speakers and headphones ) ."
Sure, it's like that. It's like that to a point it's somewhat frightening. The detail is uncanny.
On another note, I'm still wondering how the sound stage could be so much better than before... I expected an improvement, but In actuality, it's a notable improvement. I would guess it's because it's a fully balanced dac. Twice as many pcm1705uk's? plus the amp being pure class A. I'm practically crying when I hear some of my music. Yes, in many of my tracks i've heard some new things i've never noticed before, partially as i'll cranked the volumes louder and have absolute pristine and crisp audio at high volumes. It's insane how good this amp is.
The DAC19 was very revealing, this is a couple notches above, and likely if the DAC19 was paired with a monster pure class A amp then you'd get similar results. or closer. Being that all these goodies are tightly packed in one box may surely make this a combination that effectively makes for a TOTL end game AIO. If you're into that sort of thing... or go with your separates and get the advantage of later being able to upgrade individual components. But I think there is something to having everything essentially direct and "shortest path" "keep it simple stupid". This design is quite brilliant, and similar to the Reference 10.32. A couple upgrades of course. The amp!!! Double the power - maybe a couple other changes? newer DSP1 software (correct me if i'm wrong) - a volume knob is kinda nice too
I thought the power would be comparable to the NFB28 (2015) as each are rated for +16db. Well, for whatever it's worth.... The M11 has significantly more headroom with power. I'm happy and likely won't be upgrading the volume board to +3db or +6db unless the price is fairly cheap and the swap is fairly easy. I've only encountered a few classical tracks that are somewhat quiet. I managed to get them to reasonable levels by cranking it up.
So I can honestly say that Kingwa has made something extremely special. I would like to hear what you think.... since you'd actually owned a M7/M9 and you also have a YGG.
serious competition here.
And after a week or so of listening I will be sure what I am hearing is indeed it's sweetest, fully warmed up state.
i'll have the Amanero combo 384 upgrades for this and the NFB28 later on this month.
I wonder if any detectable sound difference will take place after upgrading to that USB board.
I guess I just hope it's a little more stable with Jriver, or just in general.
Should have mentioned it but I already did that with replaygain in foobar which gave:
Master 11 +1.72
Rag/Ygg +3.46
Orpheus +0.27
Rag/Ygg is the quietest of the three.
Just by listening to them as is my first guess was the m11 was loudest, and ygg and orph was nearly the same but less than the m11. what are you using to record? As this seems to only be a "for fun" comparison and little to no details can be captured in a recording.
I listened to each of these with my fidue a83's about a dozen times each. There seems to be a bit of clipping. The m11 sounds much darker and the bass is authoritive. Yet since the recording isn't the best, it's hard to tell its speed and clarity of the bass.
All the recordings sound muffled to me.
No substitute for actually hearing them in person I suppose. Sure you did use a high quality Sony mic , no denying that. But it's still not able to catch the details imho. I will listen to that track at home on my m11 and try to compare to see what differences i am experiencing.
The bass on the m11 sounds concerning as it seems the overall volume of that particular recording is much louder and has some over extended bass that sounds like clipping. Maybe the mic not picking up everything?
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. I know little about recording and little about mics.
I just was quite surprised the sounds of each recording.
What is your opinion on the three, recordings aside. What do you like or dislike about each.