Ok, i started reading this lot i dont know how long ago.
So i bought a Chord EX
Then stuck an LPS on it
And then things changed
Oh, this is nice, this is tasty!
BUT, 2 WEEKS , 2 bloody weeks after i bought it,Chord launched the Qutest. Bugger !!! (apologies)
As for the EX with the LPS - very impressive, better with than without imo
So Back and forth i went, do i think is it worth it !
May, June, more thinking, more pondering, some paceing to and fro.
July more paceing, more thinking and some pondering
August, as detailed above pretty much but with a change of footwear.
Fair enough, flippers in the lounge!, its a stretch for anybody she cried! It helps me think i pace/cudunkin (thats not even a word).
So September arrives , bugger bugger bugger i cant take it anymore, so on september 7, i got one.
Im using this with a ming da campana integrated valve amp and and tannoys prescision 6.4 speakers
Report (lol) this is the whole point of the post!
75hrs on it. Blimey what a change
1st 4hrs - yuck.rough and toppy
About 20 hrs noticed a change, just kinda got its act together for want of a better word from there its just opened up and got better
Stunning midrange deatil
Digging very deep into the tracks (you think you know them inside out then, whazzat!)
The brittle top end is gone, its lovely
The bass taut and can go very very low when required with no wobble
The up and down of it is that its a lovely lovely thing both to look at (its a black brick, how sad am i? ), very well built, and sounds the business.
What can i say but ive read after 300hrs it comes alive. (Im like the undead as it stands 75hrs in and matchsticks have been snapped already,!)
Sadly i take burn in very seriously, like a duty or something, its to do with to much valve burning in probably, lol, ive a book for my valve burn in stuff and ive written it in there for godness sake, its documented)
Oh, and the packaging and box is befitting of the product. Im a sucker for a nice box!
Without opening a can of worms, with or without an lps?
Lol
For anyonewho hasnt, Teardrop by Massive Attack and Bugs by Lamchop should tell you all you need to know.
Loving it