>From 2002 to 2010 I had an apartment in Tokyo because I spent so much time doing business there.
It was there that I bought my Dynaudio's and hauled over a vintage, but not superb, Luxman integrated amp to drive them. The source was faily low bitrate MP3's from the soundcard of a PC. (at least it was aftermarket sound card!) By all measures, my current setup is vastly superior to what I had there. Mostly FLAC now, Touch, dedicated DAC, monoblocks, and the same set of speakers. But the music just sounded better in Tokyo... I am pretty certain that the reason for this is the natural acoustics of the room. The dimansions very nice and square - just lie a speaker laid on its side. Fully carpeted. a couple of large pieces of very cushy furniture to sit on and nothng else. A 15 foot curtain along one side, and the rest of the room wallpapered in this funky, slightly spongy, porous wallpaper. My room today has a cathedral cieling, losts of beautiful architecture angles, hardwood floors, and sparse wall coverings. What is there is hard glass covered paintaings, a fired clay sculpture, and that's about it. I would soooo love to treat the room, but there is just no way that would fly. Actually I would so so so so so love to hear my current system in my Tokyo room. Complete with a glass of 17 year old Nikka Yoichi single malt. The room may very well be the most important piece of audio equipment I don't have. -- ob_kook Duet --> Axiom passive pre --> Portal Paladin monoblocks --> Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKII SB2 --> Denon AVR4800 --> Klipsch KG4 Squeezebox Boom Squeezeserver running on a virtual Win7 machine within 2008 R2 Server Hyper-V ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ob_kook's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1383 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92936 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
