sahmen
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So I have had my Pasithea back from repairs for several weeks now, and I finally decided to give it a listen. Mind you, it has seen less than 24 hours of burn-in since I fired it up so I assume that things are still evolving.
I have been listening to some music this morning/afternoon, and admiring with awe the performance advantages that the Pasithea has over the Morpheus! The much lower noise floor, the black background, the massively spacious, airy, soundstage stage and pinpoint imaging! The Pasithea has excellent detail retrieval and yet it also manages to be so quiet in the background that I can feel its relaxing and calming effects in my muscles as I lie down listening. which makes me think I could lie down listening all day doing nothing else. The Pasithea is such a great match with my Niimbus US4 that it has got me wondering how I managed to live without it for the past six months when it was out of commission.
The funny thing is I have spent much of the last year second-guessing my Niimbus US4 and wondering whether I should get another SS Amp. I have been dreaming about some of the newer "passengers" on the head-fi FOTM hype train, such as a Holo Bliss, the Cen.Grand Silver Fox and even the older KG CFA3, especially for driving the Susvara or the Abyss 1266 TC.
However, now I am listening to this chain:
Singxer SU-6 (with Paul Hynes SR4T LPS) ==>> Pasithea (via RJ45 I2S) ==>>Niimbus US4 ==>> Hifiman Susvara,
... and the music is so grand, so charming, so relaxing and stately that I am positively wondering what could have made me dream of a more "perfect amp," talk less of a "more perfect" rig.
I cannot immediately figure out what exact difference the Singxer SU-6 is making in its contribution to the music, since I have not compared it directly with the Ambre. It is also new in my system--even newer than the Pasithea--and I am thinking that it too might need some days of extensive burn-in before coming into its own. Still, I can say that this is easily the best performing rig I have ever heard for the genres of music I typically listen to. I can easily imagine the existence of even better rigs and chains out there, but for today at least, I do not care about anything "out there." All the demons of "upgraditis" seem to have vanished in the face of the wonderful synergy I am getting on this one, and it is all very pleasing indeed.
If there is an "endgame" rig anywhere in existence, then it must be a product of some synergy between a set of components and human factors (some predictable and repeatable, and others not) rather than that of any particular group of components exclusively. I feel like I am riding on a nirvana of synergy today, and I thank Cees and Sonnet Audio for their input in making it happen.
I have been listening to some music this morning/afternoon, and admiring with awe the performance advantages that the Pasithea has over the Morpheus! The much lower noise floor, the black background, the massively spacious, airy, soundstage stage and pinpoint imaging! The Pasithea has excellent detail retrieval and yet it also manages to be so quiet in the background that I can feel its relaxing and calming effects in my muscles as I lie down listening. which makes me think I could lie down listening all day doing nothing else. The Pasithea is such a great match with my Niimbus US4 that it has got me wondering how I managed to live without it for the past six months when it was out of commission.
The funny thing is I have spent much of the last year second-guessing my Niimbus US4 and wondering whether I should get another SS Amp. I have been dreaming about some of the newer "passengers" on the head-fi FOTM hype train, such as a Holo Bliss, the Cen.Grand Silver Fox and even the older KG CFA3, especially for driving the Susvara or the Abyss 1266 TC.
However, now I am listening to this chain:
Singxer SU-6 (with Paul Hynes SR4T LPS) ==>> Pasithea (via RJ45 I2S) ==>>Niimbus US4 ==>> Hifiman Susvara,
... and the music is so grand, so charming, so relaxing and stately that I am positively wondering what could have made me dream of a more "perfect amp," talk less of a "more perfect" rig.
I cannot immediately figure out what exact difference the Singxer SU-6 is making in its contribution to the music, since I have not compared it directly with the Ambre. It is also new in my system--even newer than the Pasithea--and I am thinking that it too might need some days of extensive burn-in before coming into its own. Still, I can say that this is easily the best performing rig I have ever heard for the genres of music I typically listen to. I can easily imagine the existence of even better rigs and chains out there, but for today at least, I do not care about anything "out there." All the demons of "upgraditis" seem to have vanished in the face of the wonderful synergy I am getting on this one, and it is all very pleasing indeed.
If there is an "endgame" rig anywhere in existence, then it must be a product of some synergy between a set of components and human factors (some predictable and repeatable, and others not) rather than that of any particular group of components exclusively. I feel like I am riding on a nirvana of synergy today, and I thank Cees and Sonnet Audio for their input in making it happen.
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