My Liquid Fire arrived today and I hope and believe it's the final piece in my headphone system. I've enjoyed music and the equipment to play it through for many years but circumstance necessitated a headphone system now rather than a speaker system for my personal listening. This phase of the journey started with the purchase of a Woo WA2, PS Audio DLIII and Beyer T1s in February and has changed and morphed into W4S DAC 2, Cavalli Liquid Fire and LCD-2r1 sourced from a Bryston BDP-1 or Oppo BDP-83SE or MacBook Pro.
I feel so fortunate to have been able to put this together.
Having only had the LF for a few hours I can only give an initial impression and it's "WOW". The LF has 120 hours on it according to the accompanying documents. The music comes through with such great authority, definition, openness and attack that I could easily spend hours listening to anything. One of my musical vices is early Genesis and Seconds Out (1976-1977) is one of my all time favourite live albums which I've heard countless times. Just listened to the whole thing and it was simply spectacular with the LF. The LF presented the bass whether from the guitars or bass pedals so well defined and powerful, the drums crisp and driving, the myriad of keyboards awing, guitars haunting, Collins vocals fantastic and the whole thing together just a really moving musical experience.
It didn't take much listening to confirm that the LCD-2 with it's it big full sound is just better suited to me than the T1 with the LF so it'll be sold.
I love this amp already and look forward to going through my mainly rock and blues oriented musical library with some female vocalists, a small bit of jazz and of course some Motown thrown in over the next while.
Nice work Cavalli. Great sounding amp and it looks pretty cool as well.