so, big question:HE-400S vs Ether?
VIVA Egoista. No comment. (click to show/hide)
Open baffle speakers. Don't remember. Sounded good and nice / open like all dipoles. Woofers are the 12" from AE (OJ has a pair of the 15" versions). Scanspeak mid and tweeter? Wasn't familiar with the music (classical), and didn't have time to tell the dude to play something I knew, so hard to render reliable opinion.Quote (selected) (click to show/hide)
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Synergistic Research tweaks. I run against the grain here (opposed to burns, OJ, and Anax's earlier experience, but then again the comparison was against two stacks one stock and the other with the full SR treatment), but I prefer the STOCK setup. The stock setup sounded more resolving and open to me. Luis smiled when I told him that. (click to show/hide)I even tried the SR plug thing by itself. Hard to say. Placebo or nocebo effect possible sinc e go close. But I felt stock without the SR plug sounded better a tiny bit, or maybe different. The SR plug seemed to increase blackground, but at expense of fine detail. (click to show/hide)
LOL ! Give your impressions NOW !
Campfire Audio Jupiter and Lyra. The surprise of the show for me. Jupiter (Anax helped me roll some tips) was really nice. Possible new reference grade IEM to UERM (that's high praise). With the right tips, a tiny bit warmer, a tiny more laid back in the upper vocals, and more sparkly. Cleaner, clearer sounded too. The Lyra is a dynamic with superior timbre, but with some peakiness that Ken Ball said could be addressed with the right tips - comply foam. What's ironic is I used to think stuff sold by ALO was too expensive. Hahaha, well I have to say that stuff from ALO is a great deal these days because all these other fuckers keep geometrically increasing their prices while ALO has held steady. (click to show/hide) (click to show/hide)
That's why you need Anax to roll tips for you.
I didn't hear either of those things (and I listened to it with Noble PR in R mode, which is pretty revealing of treble issues), but ... when you say "sub-bass," what frequencies are you talking about? Because of the kind of music I listen to, I generally don't care much about what is going on below 41 Hz (the open fourth string on a bass tuned to A440); if there are strange things going on between 20 and 41, I might have heard them, but I wouldn't have taken note of them. My evaluation track for low bass is "From Ankara to Izmir" from the Jerry Douglas/Russ Barenberg/Edgar Meyer album, because of Meyer's insane bass solo, and that sounded just fine to me.
