A few recent changes to system 1/Lurches Chunterings (Blog)

Popped these little beauties in the system today.

Yeah you did, but..... Spent 2 weeks kicking myself, couldn't get the bloody things out of my head. So glad I went for it, the insight and additional subtleties they bring out of the mix along with deeper (19hz) tighter more nuanced bass and a greater sense of ease.

Great thing is the seller delivered them and is delivering my MLs to the Buyer in Colchester on his way back to Stowemarket and also took the 2 ways in PX.

I am ducking behind the sofa as I write this John are you going to bring these to the Maverick Show ? Ducks as John throws bricks at me . If so could I ask that you bring at least one digital source ? I really would love to hear these but just can not listen to Vinyl for any time long enough to enjoy the music .

The Dreiklangs continue to astonish me, yes they're frigging humongous, but they take up less real estate in my 12x14 room with only 20cm to sidewalls and being only 15cm further forward than my rack. I've also found they don't need turning up to sound superb, yes they're capable of SPLs of 120dB according to a German review but they also do delicacy, scale and detail at conversation levels. Today I've been listening at low level and apart from a couple of tracks i.e. Yello, The Rythm Divine, I've felt no desire to turn them up, not something I've encountered before.

Cheers Dave.
The only thing that really let's the side down now is the 6000CDT, it's a very good sounding transport when partnered with appropriate level equipment. Unfortunately with the last two acquisitions I've moved beyond that level so it's performance is borderline. It now sounds a bit thin and muffled compared to the TT and Innuos, I'm guessing the MastersounD and Dreiklangs are exposing its weak points.

Nope, not ripped, can't be arsed, much prefer physical media. Did have 450Gb of ripped music on it but deleted it as never accessed it. If I'd known about the Pulse/Pulsar at the time I would have hung fire a couple of months until it was available instead of getting the ZeniTH.

I looked up the Mastersound and it has very high input impedance on the unbalanced this might be why you are hearing problems with the Audiolab in this new set up.

You could try using a DAC with balanced outputs into the balanced inputs of the Mastersound as those have much lower input impedance - or deploy a pre-amp and use the Mastersound as a power amp only.


www.stereophile.com/content/mastersound-845-compact-integrated-amplifier-measurements

I strongly suspect this will solve the issue.

In other news, Audio T in Portsmouth had a 9000CDT demo unit so popped down this afternoon with my 6000 for an audition.
A totally blind audition actually, both units behind me, shop bloke did the swaps. I put fingers in ears whilst he did (different loading/unloading sounds as slot Vs draw), he tapped me on shoulder when done so could remove fingers from ears.
Didn't know what transport he started with, but could easily tell player A from B. A couple of times he didn't swap and I just said no change.
Whilst not a smack in the mouth difference the 9000 was better.
I have paid £100 as a home loan deposit, once back from Mum's I will fire it up in my system to see what's what.
I've got it atleast for a long weekend if I want.
I asked if had any in stock if I wanted one, he said no but was sure he could sort a mutually acceptable price for the loaner as ex'dem/open box to save me a return journey.
Let's not get too excited and just see how we go for a few days.

Thanks for that Bruce, an interesting read, I agree with their 'detail monster's comment for the 9000, last night stuff was being pulled out I'd not heard before on either CD, streaming or vinyl. Not only does it pull out smaller quieter instruments and spacial clues, but also voice inflections and additional timbral info. Have only listened for around 3 hours so far but things are looking good. Not as rich/warm as my old Lector but everything sounds right, not only is the space and air back but it has a great tonality that's even-handed across the board.
One thing I did notice was that things seemed to get better throughout the evening, my guess is that this player didn't have many hours on the clock so was 'burning in, I therefore left it running on repeat when I switched the system off last night. I will leave it on repeat when not listening for the duration of my trial period, it should then have a known 100hrs under its belt by the time I start the final listening session Monday evening.

Yep, jumped through the YT vid, and as they say for 9000 different dac, diff kit then probably different sonic result. Think that's what's happened here, there's no sense of strain or trying to hard that I can discern.

Good for you, cant take it with you when the time comes - live while you're alive, you've worked those decades, it's your time now

Yes it is, but I've always been a bit full on with my hobbies and take everything to the max my pocket can stand.
Anyway once I get me arse in gear and sell the excess from my whirlwind changes:
Kef 104ab
SF Toy Towers
MA R352
QA C20
Puresound A30
IA ST40 MK4 SE
Umami Red
6000CDT
I will be around £3k up and have a better sounding system to what I had in November 23 when I started the de-investment. Which in my books is a result.

Guess who's been a naughty boy. 😶‍🌫️

Yes that's right, I just couldn't leave things alone. Have swapped all my Shawline ICs (1x 0.5m, 1x 1m analogue & 1x 1m coax) for Epic, well worth the investment though to my ears.
Hopefully I can now last more than 17 days before I pull the trigger on something else for the rig.