lanierb;335384 Wrote: > My $0.02. It sounds very good for the form factor, and I love it. It > also looks fantastic and seems very well designed and well made. The > dac and amps are also very good (based partly on knowledge of them from > elsewhere). > > That said, I'm going to state the obvious: the speakers are just too > small to create audiophile sound. > > I'm convinced SD did the best that was possible given the form factor, > and they even exceeded my high expectations, but there is simply a > limit to what you can do with 3" speakers. It sounds great, but will > not keep up with even great bookshelf speakers.
IME there is NO such thing as "audiophile sound". There are "audiophiles" and there is "sound". What happens when you put these 2 concepts together is entirely moot... The whole point is - is it good enough to keep a self-professed (like me) audiophile happy when they are not listening to their main system? - I vote yes. Of course as I type this somebody is doubtless formulating some kind of mod...aaaaargh! -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X + Good Vibrations S/W - MF Triplethreat(Audiocom full mods)- Linn 5103 - Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables Outdoors: Boombox+Creative Sub (If I remember to turn it on...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51624 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
