Stepan Lavrov
stepanlavrov.com
Dear John,
Thank you for your detailed reply, I am so excited to meet the creator of such wonderful Hi-Fi equipment. I am very happy to see you paid attention to my profession- I hope one day you can hear me play life in Czech Republic. I have recently been performing Dvorak Violin Concerto- what a beautiful piece it is, one of my absolute favourites!
It is such a coincidence, I was literally looking at the same Martin Logan ESL speakers and was seriously considering it, however I have two very untamed cats who could easily destroy these speakers if I accidentally left the door open to my study room. Do you know if the diaphragm/front element of Martin Logans is quite durable?
So finally I have decided to settle for a pair of very fine Danish speakers from a company called Buchardt Audio: https://www.buchardt-audio.com
If you don't mind me comparing, to me this company seems to have similar values as to yours- great enthusiasm, passion for music and strive for perfectionism. They have recently been at the AVS 2017 Show here in Warsaw and their new speakers have passive radiators at the back- I have never seen a design like that in my life- they sound absolutely amazing! https://www.buchardt-audio.com/products/s400-black-pair-pre-order-discount
Thank you very much for your professional advice on the QUAD amplifier- I have already started looking at the 909 second hand offers..
I have also been looking at their Artera Series before finally settling for my current system: M-CDT, M-DAC and M-PWR.
My biggest problem now is that I have a turntable and I cannot integrate it with my current system, as there is no way of using M-DAC as a preamplifier, since there are no analog inputs.
In the case of me purchasing the QUAD 909 amp would you recommend to do it together with the QUAD 99 preamp? Or perhaps you can recommend any new/currently available separates, including a matching CD player/transport to go with it?
Once you have recovered from the expense of buying the ESL's then we all hope that the MDAC2 design should be generally available.
The Streamer board is only compatible with the upgraded MDAC2 boards and also a engineering development DAC board the DevDAC.
This forum is really the best place to keep track of whats happening - I don't have a marketing team or even the desire to market the designs - they are for fun and the love of Music rather then any serious finical enrichment - quite the opposite in fact!
Thank you so much once again for your honesty and for all the information you have provided me with.
I tend to use Slow Rolloff filter on majority of all the music I listen to- to me it is the clearest sounding one especially when listening to records that were made "directly to disc". I have a collection of Grigory Sokolov recordings for Naïve Records- these are AD recordings, so no mixing has been done, just a pair of microphones- the Slow Rolloff provides the cleanest sound on my system and I can really hear well artist's performing dynamics and the acoustics of the room- it gives a real life experience feeling.
Here's the CD link: https://www.amazon.de/dp/B005OZDXR8/?tag=pinkfishmed08-21
I also like Minimum Phase- it tends to bring the vocals a little forward- I find it sounds good for "hard to hear the voice" rock music.
And I liked the Optimal Transient XD and DD- in fact DD has a little more controlled bass on my system, my room is quite boomy, so DD works really well on pop music. Both filters make everything sound very rich, almost as if I have surround sound speakers.
Overall I still tend to leave my M-DAC at Slow Rolloff on all types of music, as I tend to analyse a lot of what I listen to and I think this filter gives me quite a clear/honest picture.
Lol, this is so true- the drivers and the roads in Poland are the worst?! I actually drove to Czech Republic from Warsaw and the road outside Warsaw at some point became a nightmare. However they are building some new highways, right now the road from Warsaw to Berlin is one of the best I've seen here. But local drivers- that's a whole new story..
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