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61  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Happy New Year to all ! on: December 31, 2015, 08:55:30 pm
Happy New Year to one and all!!
62  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: 10074 Doomsday ? then 10240 is there - or 10565 on: October 21, 2015, 06:14:17 pm
Hi,

I come from the land of Tesla!

Any possibility in using battery or super-capacitors as PSU?

Cheers!
VJ
 Happy
63  Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Fight the Tinnitus on: October 05, 2015, 05:34:21 pm
Nah,

Won't work at multiple levels for XXHE. None of those work with speakers, headphone specific. First of all Peter will not allow noise generation by XXHE.

The technology itself May have some benefit as Neuromonics desesenitization, acoustic generator or auditory habituation. Every one of these is highly specific in terms of technology and application.

VJ
64  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Shhht on: August 22, 2015, 05:32:29 am
Yaba-daba-doo!!
 clapping too much ! Happy new year !
65  Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd PC / Re: And now my sound is SCARY on: June 26, 2015, 06:01:36 am
So there is a very valid theory for this, but one had to experience it to confirm .... Happy
66  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Clairixa USB ~ Update on: June 06, 2015, 03:59:02 am
For Phasure-ites with mid/upper bass prominence with the Clarixia, I would urge them to try vibration isolation. It also eliminated the treble harshness I previously experienced!

The name "Clarixia" actually suits the cable now!  Cool

VJ
67  Ultimate Audio Playback / Orelino / Orelo MKII Loudspeakers / Re: Orelo MK-II mini review ~ 1 year followup and THe Show @ Newport Beach on: June 02, 2015, 07:12:47 am
So I thought I will post a long term "mini" review.

So called reviews one sees on the magazines is just the flavor of the months, till the next best thing overtakes it in every 6? Weeks  dntknw

So after owning the "complete" Phasure system for more than a year all I can say is that this HAS been the best purchase I've ever made in my audio history. I look around occasionally at the market, and then laugh at the same old "sling with a new bling"

No ground breaking technology has made it to the market in the last 5 years. Even if it has, it's not in the realm of acceptance into my audio domain.

I recently visited THE Show @ Newport Beach. Contrary to the "joke is at the bottom of my foot" in terms or performance, there were many which did portray "some" promise .... But variables such as music genre definitely played a role. Many with the special effects CDs. But where they in par? No quite, far behind ....

Most missing the most important parts of the Phasure system, solid imaging!! The SNR of the Phasure system is incredible. Also the adaptability of the FM curves for the ear brain to quickly get acclimatized to a particular album for intense interpretation! I recently added vibration dampness to the server and the DAC, made an interesting difference. Now I was confident that I could add Clarixia back into the system, the Aqvox seemed a bit dull and slow. I'm now on all Orange in the FM curves, can play with all greems(flat) now, but I think it's the room that's responsible for present the FM settings.

It was an educational experience to go back and listen to tube amps at the show (prior owner of OTL amps). I spend a considerable amount of time with the WaVaC, the 833 tubes are indeed sexy to look at, but they are the "best worst amplifiers" as someone prevoiusly mentioned, kind of sterile, with a very precise sound. 211 are quite interesting, Bernings did play well, but they were demoeing some bass EQ device, and the music was quite bass heavy. The music was loud enough to disorient me multiple times during the demo!  Those tube have some interesting under harmonics, that one can/should persue further (if looking for tube amps). I believe that amp did have plenty of vib dampening tech inbuilt. They did have a SNR which rivaled the Oreleos. The 6C33C-B tubes did a lot of things correctly, in spite of their faults, one being lower resolution. Tone and timber are quite thick and flushed. 300Bs are quite colored, at least in the topology I heard them in. One offs like the AA62B of Ayon or the GM100 from NAT are way too colored. EL84s (EAR) could not be evaluated as they were teamed with the wrong technology (ceramic drivers). Quite an educational experience to breeze through so many harmonic manipulators!! I can see why people can get caught in one of these tube traps (not in a negative way).

SS components I'm not going to comment on as there was nothing interesting, after hearing the EMM labs, Esoteric, Bicrasti M28, the MBLs. 

Or even the hybrid amps like Ypsilon or Einstein!

Why am I combining a show review with a speaker review follow up. Only after living with a speaker for more than a year and with more than 2000 hrs in playback, fiddling around with every nook and cranny of the loudspeaker, and the front end I can confidently tell, I'm familiar with these speakers and also the DAC/server. And the sound they create is well beyond what is commercially available.

Do they have drawback, yes, one pressing one for me. First one has to understand that I come from a omni/dipole speaker prior to Oreleos. So soundstage can still be improved. I haven't tried the new 2.01 XXHE as yet. But I feel this part of the process requires a bit more of work.

P.S. Going back and hearing the Omnis or dipoles such as the  MBLs, perfect 8 or the Larsen speakers, was not authentic enough. To faded and dim sound stage. Ofcourse these speakers can be room sensitive. Moreover I'm a classical music fan....

Overall my family and I have enjoyed more music in the last year, Since I can remember!!  Every day I can appreciate the special qualities of the system. interests have changed, now in getting more music. Since last Christmas the music collection is growing rapidly.

**edit**
Forgot to add the DACs, nothing that I heard made me think to change direction at this point of time, may it be Eoteric, MSB, Lampi, EMM, Bicrasti, NADAC etc.

Kudos Peter!! **and Bert!!

VJ
68  Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Munich High End 2015 on: May 25, 2015, 04:50:32 pm
Very interesting thread indeed!!

I completely agree with Mani. Hi-end has lost its focus, or may be never had it.

Few comments:

1) consumers with a lot of money, and no clue about sound. Focus switched from a balance of sound/technology to just equipment only (audio jewelry).

2) many boutique manufacturers serving just the above purpose, with bling, but poorly designed (sound) products.

3) focus on the high end industry for consumers to experiment with different equipment (continued sales), while keeping them dark about equipment matching. Or maybe clueless themselves ...

Why would manufacturers mix match components at shows that they themselves have not extended experience with?!

Just goes to show total system distortion is not under consideration by most manufacturers

4) while Amps, preamps, DACs have reached maturity, I solely blame the speaker manufacturers for poor products, without significant progress in the last few decades. Tweeters which are distorting at even normal playback levels. Bass distortion not even in consideration.

5) the "whole" system approach is not even considered by most manufacturers. Even if they are, it's just for the flavor of the month.

6) in that fashion, Peter's approach is most unique. Also his ears.

7) while the rooms are really the most important factor. I've hear the Phasure system (DAC) sound really poor and quite decent in different rooms, with different speakers, but the poor sound was related to the speaker.

8 ) no matter how bad a room sounds, one can at least get a hint of a systems potential, and as Mani mentions, these guys are on a different orbit.

9) I've auditioned in well set up dealer rooms, and have found, even the touted best, just unsatisfactory! Ofcourse I've not heard it "all".

Well I will be attending THE show at Newport Beach this weekend, just because ...  Wink
I like to reset my baseline very frequently. Where does the joke start?

Best,
VJ
69  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: Phasure NOS2 on: April 17, 2015, 03:09:54 pm
Well since you guys are blowing kisses at each other I can then reveal another name I was hesitant of doing so earlier ...

NOS "ménage à trois"

 Censored ! pleasantry
70  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Phasure ChimerA on: April 16, 2015, 12:48:18 am
Its a hybrid, and therefore quite appropriate.

 Wink

VJ
71  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: New NOS1 = ? on: April 08, 2015, 03:42:27 am
Peter,
Very interesting.

On the names for the new DAC/amp

Something out of the box, A different path!

Poincaré conjecture edition (NOS-PC edition)

One of the most interesting problem only recently solved by an enigmatic mathematician. In short explanation of a hyper sphere (sphere in a higher dimension).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_conjecture

Tesseract is another option (NOS The Tesseract)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

In many ways we can consider bits to be another dimension with computers becoming more and more sophisticated.

It's an amp, DAC, DSP, modular. Something that has been not done before ...

VJ
72  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: New NOS1 = ? on: April 04, 2015, 04:13:27 pm
As Alain,

I suspect a multichannel amp/DAC with crossover and DSP or ASP  wacko

VJ
73  Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: New NOS1 = ? on: March 31, 2015, 03:28:00 pm
Hi,

I would propose a name which has dynamic/action such as ** edit "Midas Touch". Thought I'm probably far from the ideal name, some thing that means conversion or change would be suitable.

VJ
74  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Clairixa USB on: March 30, 2015, 04:10:54 pm
Hi Peter,
I believe so ...
 Happy
75  Ultimate Audio Playback / Cables (Community induced) / Re: Clairixa USB on: March 30, 2015, 03:42:36 pm
Hi,

Update on my side.

I was waiting for newer filter, maybe what Peter had was better for the Clarixia?!

Clarixia is no longer playing in the system. I'm exclusively using AQvox for the last few weeks after my initial report. I A-B ed more extensively, and found AQvox to be more "natural" sounding. Better soundstage, smoother (natural) presentation. AQvox has been the best overall cable I've tried so far with the present version of the XXHE I'm using.

VJ
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