[filuS]

It's been a while since I posted a picture of my system in this thread so here is the most recent state of it.

 

[orrman]

It's been a while since I posted a picture of my system in this thread so here is the most recent state of it.

Very nice! Where is the furniture from? I like the combination of wood and steel

 

[Roasty]

It's been a while since I posted a picture of my system in this thread so here is the most recent state of it.

Very nice!
I was looking at the Hattor preamp a while back. How are you liking it? Adding the tube stage down the road?

 

[filuS]

Very nice! Where is the furniture from? I like the combination of wood and steel

The table/rack are from Norstone Esse line, combination of black metal and walnut shelfs. Before I had hifi rack from Empire at around same price and I like Norstone ones more - they look and "feel" better, at least to me.

 

[filuS]

Very nice!
I was looking at the Hattor preamp a while back. How are you liking it? Adding the tube stage down the road?

I wanted my preamp to be as transparent as possible - I spoke with Arek from Hattor Audio and he recommended Takman REY resistors. This is also a reason why I wasn't interested in tube stage (plus I already have a tube amp, so if I want to have some of that "tube magic", I can just switch the amps). At first I could have sworn that there was a slight drop off in bass quantity compared to hooking up GS-X mini directly to the DAC but the more I listen to this setup with Hattor pre-amp the more I like it. Perhaps the pre-amp is just going through the burn-in and still needs some time to settle down. In any case the pre-amp was pretty much a necessity for me, Holo Audio Spring 3 outputs are way too hot and on most of my headphones I was around 3rd/4th tick from the lowest volume on GS-X mini. However I'm still wondering how passive volume control from Goldpoint would compare to the Hattor pre-amp. But since I'm living in EU I opted out for something "local" instead of getting a unit from overseas

 

[DMITRIY R]

It's been a while since I posted a picture of my system in this thread so here is the most recent state of it.

This is what true love of music looks like.

 

[Pharmaboy]

However I'm still wondering how passive volume control from Goldpoint would compare to the Hattor pre-amp.

I never had a passive as good as the Hattor, but I did have a Goldpoint passive at one time (one RCA input, 2 RCA outputs live at all times). It had the best stepped pot Goldpoint made for that application...an expensive little box. I also have a modest transformer-based passive ("PVC") I got from NHT audio 15 years ago.

At least in my system (of that time), the Goldpoint sounded awful: edgy, bright, bass down, treble up. So bad that I immediately sold it. I know it wasn't the Goldpoint's fault: resistor-based passives are entirely at the mercy of (ie, sound like) input & output impedance & cable capacitance on whatever devices are upstream and downstream of them. I doubt any resistor-based passive would have sounded good in that system.

But the transformer-based passive sounded very good in that system--also in every system I've had here (there are 2 systems in this home office; they've changed often over the years). I can't test this in a big high-rez living room system having the best of everything audio: but at least in my above average home office systems, transformer based passives sound way better. Whenever I used this little box, all I can hear (and barely, at that) is the interconnect I have to add for it to be in the circuit.

 

[SgrA]

My Rev.2 of an RH84 design. Modded with parafed Sowter output transformers for headphones and hammond chokes.It's almost cat friendly, and is now allowed out of the garage.

 

[RogueCrusher]

It's been a while since I posted a picture of my system in this thread so here is the most recent state of it.

How are you liking/still liking the Denon 9200’s on their own merit and compared to the AT closed backs or any other closed backs you have heard or owned?

 

[FlyingFungus]

It's been a while since I posted a picture of my system in this thread so here is the most recent state of it.

...wow!!!

 

[Fsilva]

Clean and simple!
All the gear used is listed on my sig.

 

[Somafunk]

Clean and simple!
All the gear used is listed on my sig.

Nice, what do you feel the Barefoots give you that the Hedds are up for sale?, I ask as I heard a pair of Hedd type 20 mk2 in my room a couple of years ago and thought they sounded amazing, couldn’t afford them at the time so bought Dynaudio Lyd 48’s and Dynaudio 18s subwoofer instead, still very happy with them. I’ve used active studio monitors from various manufacturers for the past 18 odd years, much simpler in setup and designed to be used day in day out, active crossovers before amplification makes so much sense for accurate sound quality.

Here’s my Dynaudio Lyd setup I posted on here a few days ago,

 

[Fsilva]

Well the Barefoot´s are just on another level in terms of detail retrieval, bass is also tighter, can only imagine what would be to own a pair of the MM26 for instance...

 

[Somafunk]

I’ve only heard the Barefoot Footprint 02 and was impressed with the bass response for such a small design but I figured the meme option was wasted on a purely listening setup.

 

[hifixman]

As for now, changes will keep coming at the source…