latestyle
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Hey, gang. Haven't posted here of late due to craziness related to launching a start-up. But hopping in here quickly to comment. As some of you may remember, was using the Z1Rs predominantly at the office through Ayre Codex decoding digits from my office laptop (running fidelizer pro); I swapped out cables to Wireworld Nano-Platinum Eclipse, which was really the bees' knees.
Or so I thought. For the long weekend I brought the Z1Rs home, and currently listening through Leben CS600 headphone out (which is transformer-coupled) with Melco N1A/Schiit Yggy doing the D-A. Stock Sony cable. And the sound is revelatory. Currently listening to Kim Kashkashian/Lera Auerbach's Arcanum (ECM), and the viola's midband is more lifelike, better energized than I remember through my office rig. To be fair, my home rig is more $ than my office rig, but this only goes to prove Z1R scalability and transparency to sources, IMO.
I think the common advice on this thread for Z1R amplification is generally to stay away from tube amplifiers that might add undue warmth or bass bloat. But through top rate tube amplifiers that do not tip too much toward the warmth side of the sound signature, it rather brings out the Z1Rs' strengths (or attributes that some have been saying are missing in Z1Rs). For those of you who tried Z1Rs and found the sound a bit too unexcitable, just want to say that these cans scale transparently according to whatever amplification/front-end deliver. Experiment to your heart's content!
Or so I thought. For the long weekend I brought the Z1Rs home, and currently listening through Leben CS600 headphone out (which is transformer-coupled) with Melco N1A/Schiit Yggy doing the D-A. Stock Sony cable. And the sound is revelatory. Currently listening to Kim Kashkashian/Lera Auerbach's Arcanum (ECM), and the viola's midband is more lifelike, better energized than I remember through my office rig. To be fair, my home rig is more $ than my office rig, but this only goes to prove Z1R scalability and transparency to sources, IMO.
I think the common advice on this thread for Z1R amplification is generally to stay away from tube amplifiers that might add undue warmth or bass bloat. But through top rate tube amplifiers that do not tip too much toward the warmth side of the sound signature, it rather brings out the Z1Rs' strengths (or attributes that some have been saying are missing in Z1Rs). For those of you who tried Z1Rs and found the sound a bit too unexcitable, just want to say that these cans scale transparently according to whatever amplification/front-end deliver. Experiment to your heart's content!
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