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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2015, 05:34:10 AM »

Welp...I know what speakers I'm dreaming about tonight. ..
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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2015, 05:40:48 AM »

Well. Those were favorites at T.H.E. Show. I'm plenty happy with me Mackies right now :)p5
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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #22 on: June 01, 2015, 05:29:15 PM »

Sony AR-xx speakers. Consistent sound. Didn't like the ampage this time around as much as two years ago when they used Nelson Pass stuff, since Pass is an audio god that can't fail. I like the tuning and box resonances are controlled. Much too expensive for what you get. Woofers too small. Lacks macro dynamics and also a bit constrained. Room is probably too big / too damped for them.

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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #23 on: June 01, 2015, 05:35:20 PM »

Sony PHA3 and ZX2. PHA3 (DAC+amp) has power, sounds clean, black blackground, smooth with no transistor nasties, refined, but makes everything slightly flat on the micro level. Keep in mind that 90% of solid-state sounds slightly flat on the micro level to me. The combo was excellent with the Sony Z7 Med/Almost High-Res headphones.

For some reason Z7 headphones sounded like shit directly from ZX2. Uncontrolled, treble nasties, raw, jumpy, etc. Seemed to lack power for the Z7. However, ZX2 without the PHA3 was more lively and more resolving.

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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #24 on: June 01, 2015, 05:39:37 PM »

Plasma tweeter things. Please fire phasers or photon torpedos at my eardums. Fuck this shit. Needs bigger woofer too. Where is the woofer?



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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #25 on: June 01, 2015, 05:43:21 PM »

Questyle QP1. Sounded pretty good. Unfortunately only had PM-3 and Ether on hand (QP1 doesn't have enough juice to drive them. Mids and treble were great, bass was uncontrolled / dead.) As a DAC or for IEMs, might be fantastic. Only AK380 might have edged it out.

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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #26 on: June 01, 2015, 05:53:48 PM »

Yeah, bass is non issue with IEMs.
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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #27 on: June 01, 2015, 05:54:34 PM »

Plasma tweeter things. Please fire phasers or photon torpedos at my eardums. Fuck this shit. Needs bigger woofer too. Where is the woofer?

LOL! My notes on that one was: "MBL bright". I think their show room last time was better. This time their mega blenders were not up to snuff.

Lots of rooms were pretty crapy this time around actually. More so than in the previous years going by memory.
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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #28 on: June 01, 2015, 05:56:56 PM »

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.






 
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Re: T.H.E. SHOW 2015 Irvine (not Newport) Impressions
« Reply #29 on: June 01, 2015, 06:01:49 PM »

HE-400S. Fantastic $299 deal from Anaxilus' mega transportable rig. Thank you HFM for offering great sounding affordable products normal people (that is people other than young Taiwanese, Chinese, or Korean kids with rich parents) can own.



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