So lets kick off with couple of Pre CJ photos and mini impression of Hifiman Shangri-La Jr.
I had a opportunity to spent some time with Shangri-La Jr. and compare it to Senior HPs on the same Jr. amp.
Fed by Cayin i5 with a selectionof my music
-I was extremely lucky as it was dead quiet during the setting up.
Longer impression to come but after 20+ min of listening and comparing:
Shangri-La Jr. as a package is very impressive - all the goodness of electrostatics and very musical
HPs on it own are very well build and really light!
In comparison to Senior HP a bit tad forward where Serion is more laid back
both seems to be different approach to the same favour. Both but especially Senior has
vocals to die for and surprisingly even low res files sounds enjoyable.
I would be happy with both ;l]]]
And I heard somebody whispering that it would be possible to buy HPs and Amp separately !!!
Good news for owners of others electrostatics I would say.
That's interesting, an Cayin i5 as source to the HiFiman electrostatic system, but I guess being able to use music pieces that you are familiar make a lot of different.
I did something like that back in 2016 CamJam SoCal, Dr Fang used HM901 as source to his first generation Shangri-La demo, and I requested to change to my Cayin N6 because I want to listen to these important product with my own playlist. I am glad that the HiFiman team was very accommodative all along.
I have compared the Shangri-La and Shangri-La Jr like what you did in a previous show, and I asked Andy Regan the price of Shangri-La Jr again and again. I told him that the price doesn't seems right because the Jr was so close to the senior in a lot of area, $8K is a steal when compare to the Shangri-La full system.
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