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USAudio;182282 Wrote: > beernutz, please give us your impressions of the Linkwitz Orion? First off, I am NOT an audiophile. I did however audition a number of audiophile speakers, including Vandersteen 3a, Revel Performa F52, Paradigm Signature S8, Focal.JMLabs Utopia and a few others before deciding to build the Orions. In short they are terrific and in MY opinion outperform anything I auditioned. They are especially good on good quality recordings where they just disappear, leaving only the music. The bass is especially good; just very clean without any muddiness at all. They throw a very nice soundstage and on good recordings are just transparent--you can close your eyes and not tell that there are speakers in the room. However I am probably not getting all there is out of them because I'm using used twin Adcom 2535 amps I bought on ebay for a little over $200 each (they used to retail for about $650 each, which is peanuts in the world of high-end amps). One reason I went with the Orions was that they were reputed to sound very very nice without having to resort to expensive amplification. I may one day upgrade to the amp Mr. Linkwitz recommends, the ATI 6012, which retails for around $1700 but that will probably be it for me in terms of amp upgrades. I have also not modded my SB3, I am not using an external DAC, and I haven't even completed the replacement of my SB3 wallwart with a linear power supply I'm in the process of modding. I have also not implemented the latest Linkwitz Orion upgrade to the Orion+ by adding rear firing Millenium tweeters, nor have I upgraded the opamps in my Orion EQ/XO with higher quality ones as many of my fellow Orion owners have done. I just built my Orions in January and I'm not ready at the moment to sink another $400-$500 bucks into making mine into Orion+s but I'm sure I will eventually. I haven't even upgraded my analog interconnects over the ones that came with my Orions, which appear to be just good quality Radio Shack cables. One other thing I've also noticed, which I hope isn't just my imagination, is that I think my the sound from my Squeezebox is improving. I have also only had my SB3 running since January and I am wondering if Squeezeboxes have a break-in period? In short, I still have a lot of room for improvement in the sound I am getting, which to me is REALLY scary because they sound so so so good now. If they get much better sounding I would probably never leave the house. -- beernutz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ beernutz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19817 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
