It was pretty good venue for the meet. Many of gears there were stunning. I really like to try Bel Canto Dac3 at the front of the shop with my system .
Firstly, I did a mistake in this meet. I planned to copy many of songs in various genre to my laptop. Sadly, I copied them to the wrong hard drive.
So I just have one album of Dream Theater for the audition.
I really like L3000 with my setup too.
I guess I need another silver cable for my setup since overall sound now is too warm.
I guess my modded W100 doesn't like tube amp much esp. with the blackplates RCA 12BH7A which produce really mellow sound. It tames the overall tone a bit. (but it's good to me because I listen to music quite long - 6-7hrs a day.)
I should bring the GE 12BH7A to do the tube-rolling too. It sounds more aggressive than the blackplates RCA.
I also like the tube amp from Traid audio. It sounds pretty good.
The Vinyl setup is very stunning and sound really great, but again I think it has the same tube as in my setup so it doesn't work well with my modded W100. Anyway, with this setup, I really like L3000 and HD650. I also agree with Mike. HP1 was not for me too with this setup.
Millett Hybrid with Linn CDP is the nice combo too. It works very well with Beyer DT770s and my ATs.
Gil's Figarro amp is great for the price too. I was surprise how the isolation cone improve the sound. (and still not understand why it has to be only 3 not 4 cones.
) I may purchase them for my setup too.
His HD580 is also great. The Clou cable is very stunning - very anaconda-like big
, and sounds really great too.
I also have a chance to listen to many of Grado again since I haven't tried them a while. They are not my cup of tea except Josh's Alessandro MS1 with the new cable. It sounds great.
Headphile's HD650 is very good also, but it's really heavy and look awful (nah.. sorry..
)
K701 couldn't impress me again. With several setups, it's still lack of energy and too neutral for me.
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ALso, thanks for the Revolution power, Streamline Audio Video too.
ps. pics will be post later.