music_man_66
Active Member
From not really listening to music on the living room hifi, I've gone and got rid of my Caspian integrated amp and gone bi-aktive with late Kairn, late Klout and late LK140 into my improve-tweeter Keilidhs. K400 all round and Chord Clearway RCA ICs throughout.
Sources are Musical Fidelity A3 CDP and recently bought a new Cambridge Audio CXN-v2 streamer. A3 is run through the CXN's DAC.
I'm really enjoying the aktive sound, having found it extremely harsh in the treble at switch-on - went in to Klout and found the treble pots at +4 and +7 - set them all to '0' and wow what a difference. Totally immersive. I've been listening to Guy Clark for 30 years, but now I hear the humour, depth and occasional rattle in his voice and it's so so much more of an involving acoustic experience. Accompanying cello and mandolin are just so delightful too. That's my example anyway, one that's very familiar to me that now sounds much better.
I'm wondering what source you guys would suggest that would take me that little bit deeper into the mix. This is a source-only question, I'm not ready to go tri or change speakers or anything like that. And I'm now fed up being inside speakers with a soldering iron and inside amps installing cards and tweaking settings.
A straight source swap that would slap me in the face and suck me in a wee bit more.
Thanks.
Sources are Musical Fidelity A3 CDP and recently bought a new Cambridge Audio CXN-v2 streamer. A3 is run through the CXN's DAC.
I'm really enjoying the aktive sound, having found it extremely harsh in the treble at switch-on - went in to Klout and found the treble pots at +4 and +7 - set them all to '0' and wow what a difference. Totally immersive. I've been listening to Guy Clark for 30 years, but now I hear the humour, depth and occasional rattle in his voice and it's so so much more of an involving acoustic experience. Accompanying cello and mandolin are just so delightful too. That's my example anyway, one that's very familiar to me that now sounds much better.
I'm wondering what source you guys would suggest that would take me that little bit deeper into the mix. This is a source-only question, I'm not ready to go tri or change speakers or anything like that. And I'm now fed up being inside speakers with a soldering iron and inside amps installing cards and tweaking settings.
A straight source swap that would slap me in the face and suck me in a wee bit more.
Thanks.