| Originally Posted by tagosaku Talked with Brice at Sound Odyssey. He says that The output transformers provide even more transparency and detail than the Zap-Filter. Hope this helps. * |
| Originally Posted by tagosaku Guess Brice mentioed Jolida as OS offers the brand. Eastern Electric MiniMax CD sounds great. http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/a...a/winning.html |
| Originally Posted by tagosaku Were you able to talk with Brice? My CD-25 Ultimate should be coming soon. |
| Originally Posted by stryker You'll hear the warts and all I'm sure. I can certainly tell who wasn't producing too great of an album. Poorly-done live stuff can sound pretty crappy. I have a "Best Of" Stevie Ray Vaughn that sounds egdy and has some great raw energy by Stevie, but clearly it went through some serious attack/release compression stuff in its post-production back in the 80s. I think its more a matter of really enjoying the greatly-produced music you're sure to find and pop in there. Makes listening to well-recorded stuff so engaging. And the lesser stuff you just appreciate it for what its worth as they can sometimes have thier own charm...I suppose.
EDIT: Thinking about this issue again, I don't think any good source is going to smooth over anything that sounds bad. I would rather leave that up to an amplifier. FWIW, another Head-Fi'er (chumley), who owns a Meridan G08, posted that he thought that the SO MH sounded warmer than his G08. Go figure. I would much rather hear the bad stuff on a source that sounds less grainy and digital than on a source that has these qualities. |
| Originally Posted by chumley Let's put it this way. The SO L3 modded MH CD-25 has the ability to ruthlessly expose * almost * everything thats wrong with a bad or mediocre recording, yet showcase those essential and hard to extract qualities in a good or great recording while remaining true to its accurate, transparent, mission, all things being equal with recoding, amp, headphones and interconnects. These things it does with all kinds of music, in CD and HDCD formats, and does it with a fluidity and almost analog realism that will take your breath away. And that's not even with the new SO L4 mod, let alone the G08! The G08's ability to resolve fine details while providing precise spacial placement of all sound sources with a natural, smooth, critical accuracy surpasses all but a few of the <$10k CDPs I've heard... but for $1k to $1.5k for a L3 or L4 SO modded Music Hall, you get fairly close to the G08. No exaggeration. Nothing I've heard, modded or unmodded, from Jolida, ML, Wadia or Eastern Electric gets as close to the G08, IMO. |
| Originally Posted by GoRedwings19 I'll let you know how good the G08 is when I get it. Well I need a second headphone system
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| Originally Posted by stryker EDIT: Thinking about this issue again, I don't think any good source is going to smooth over anything that sounds bad. I would rather leave that up to an amplifier. FWIW, another Head-Fi'er (chumley), who owns a Meridan G08, posted that he thought that the SO MH sounded warmer than his G08. Go figure. I would much rather hear the bad stuff on a source that sounds less grainy and digital than on a source that has these qualities. |
