and its got the sonic goods to match!!!!
We were VERY lucky to get a chance to audition the Liquid Crimson in our hotel room before Canjam at RMAF kicked-off - and Warren and I were FLOORED!
Thankfully I came armed w/ a terabyte of music on one of my Seagate drives and my MacBook Pro/Amarra rig - and the Crimson + my LCD-XCs and Double Helix Cables Molecule SE 4-pin XLR cable produced a sound that was captivating, enrapturing, and just plain FUN! It's like the LAu's little brother or first-cousin (what I told Alex Cavalli):
It has the magically transparent, window-like midrange of the LAu, the sparkle factor, and the soul. The difference I experienced was that it didn't have the same gestalt at the frequency extremes of the LAu - and it shouldn't for the money - but boy was it a sincere pleasure to listen to!
I loved it so much I dragged it back up to my room on Friday and Saturday nights just to experience its magic! And it was worth humping it back down in the mornings!
At 2K, I can't think of another hybrid headphone amp that gets close in terms of pure musicality - I was affixed to the system! Thanks to the Crimson, I MAY have managed 4-6 hours of sleep from Friday to Sunday!! WHOAH!
I'll be reviewing the Liquid Crimson for Headphone.Guru ASAP!! And I plan on throwing all sorts of cans at the amp: low and high impedance, open-back, closed-back, dynamic and planar cans!! I'm psyched to dig into this review!!
Hearing it with the Alpha Prime & Nordost Heimdall 2 headphone cable at Dans booth was one of my favorite listening experiences of Canjam 2014!! Considering I had just
reviewed the Alpha Prime at Headphone.Guru before Canjam - my ears were ready for a new experience with the Prime - and the music was rich, colorful, dynamic, hell: Just toss all the audiophily buzzwords together - and that sums up my feelings of that combo!
More to come in the review! I'll also review it here at Head-Fi.
I think you'd really enjoy it
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