sc53;295568 Wrote: > My local audio shop is hosting Ivan Tiefenbrun himself next week for a > demonstration of the Klimax DS and the less expensive Akurate DS. I'll > be hearing them both that evening, but I wish I could bring my SB3 and > laptop to do a quick comparison!! That would scandalize everyone there, > I'm sure.
Yeah !!!!! The bad thing about such events is that you get to superdupermegaoptimized room, everything is perfect and electronics costing a fortune.... You buy the thing and get it home and you're not even close to what you hear in the demo. Because the demo is not about the DS, but about demoing a mega-expensive rig. And then you realize that you may have to change everything else to get close to the performance in the demo.... Ooops and then the room.... If you brought an SB3 and a Benchmark DAC1, I'm not sure people would hear any difference whatsoever But of course the design of the DS is stunning -- haraldo Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop / SC7 -> SB3 -> Benchmark DAC1 -> Krell KAV400xi -> Meadowlark Kestrel2 / Duntech PCL-15 Everything is difficult before it's easy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ haraldo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13472 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38815 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
