[pceo1980]

I did few weeks ago at Stefan’s store in Amsterdam. I tried both Raal headphone’s sr1a and the new close back. I preffered the closed back but still found both inferior to 1266, susvara or valkyria.

The box is kind of cool but what sucks is that to increase the base you have to put xlr filters on the xlr inputs which essentially boost the base somehow, this just seemed clunky.

If you are ever near amsterdam try it for yourself! I found SR1A deeply disapointing in general and I own K1000. But audio is like that, everyone has a different take.

I was supposed to go in March'20 when I was working in North Germany....you may guess what happened then....
I had the chance then to try the Raal in a similar, place, even if on a smaller scale, here in Milan. I liked it, even if I was expecting more (esp. regarding soundstage).
Selling point for me was anyway not having my hears over-heating even after relatively short listening session.....as happen today with my Susvara.

Anyway, Riviera bought togheter with a Grandinote DAC...let's wait for the shipment and see!
I'll report back here for sure my impressions.

 

[jlbrach]

the raal sr1a and the CA version are revelations...

 

[Spawn300Z]

What’s the battery size of the Riviera AIC10 remote control.

 

[Ragnar-BY]

What's better than a new CD? Two new CDs that flew to me from the other side of the planet and arrived exactly on the last working day of this year.




@simorag thank you for your recommendations, these albums are amazing

 

[MayUseAny]

What’s the battery size of the Riviera AIC10 remote control.

Surprisingly!

 

[Spawn300Z]

Ok I see what the problem is. That piece is missing.

 

[alxw0w]

What's better than a new CD? Two new CDs that flew to me from the other side of the planet and arrived exactly on the last working day of this year.




@simorag thank you for your recommendations, these albums are amazing

Just ordered

 

[alekc]

@Ragnar-BY and @alxw0w may I ask you Gents where have place your orders for those magnificent CDs please?

 

[Spawn300Z]

What's better than a new CD? Two new CDs that flew to me from the other side of the planet and arrived exactly on the last working day of this year.




@simorag thank you for your recommendations, these albums are amazing

Can you post name and CD Titles.

 

[alxw0w]

@Ragnar-BY and @alxw0w may I ask you Gents where have place your orders for those magnificent CDs please?

discogs.com, seller: KUPIKU-COM

Can you post name and CD Titles.

Here you have it:
https://www.discogs.com/release/14611062-Masaru-Imada-Trio-2-Green-Caterpillar
https://www.discogs.com/release/14611139-Yoshio-Otomo-Quartet-With-Tsuyoshi-Yamamoto-Moon-Ray

ps. actually that was my first buy through discogs, but I've already had many cd added to the basket for quite some time and just waited to enter the world of collecting CDs Can't wait.

 

[barbz127]

What's better than a new CD? Two new CDs that flew to me from the other side of the planet and arrived exactly on the last working day of this year.




@simorag thank you for your recommendations, these albums are amazing

What CD player or transport do you use?

Thankyou

 

[Ragnar-BY]

By they way, anybody here listen to vinyl through headphones? I was always curious about this, but a little bit worried about all those vinyl rituals, noise and relatively short length of the LP side. The idea of an all-analogue system looks very attractive on the one hand and terribly impractical on the other.

 

[Ragnar-BY]

What CD player or transport do you use?

Thankyou

Rockna Wavedream NET -> i2s -> Holo May KTE

Rockna's NET is an excellent digital source. Both as CD and as network transport. I spoke with Nicolae Jitariu founder of Rockna Audio when I ordered my unit. He also listen to CDs and NET was initially designed not as "server with CD-drive", but as a "high-end CD transport + server for practical purposes".

 

[barbz127]

Thankyou, I always thought the NET was a CD ripper not a transport

 

[Ragnar-BY]

I actually found out about it by accident. I was curious about some of the characteristics of their server, there were no details on the Internet, so I called Rockna HQ in Romania. The guy who picked up the phone quickly gave up and said "wait, I'll call someone who knows how this works." It was Nikolae. A very enthusiastic person, we talked for two hours, probably. I ended up buying Wavedream NET and never regret about it.