Kean, I had the chance to listen to the construction on the Tangram speakers
and with the brandnew rauschfrei for two full days before one channel went on "a momentary leave of absence"....
there is somthing very impressive and winning about the sound of your
buffer at Joachims place and at the time Joachim
and I agree its more than worth it to follow up this aproach and inquire further to where your design will lead us to sonically.
We have often at Joachims place very precise setups, so it helps to pinpoint and
identify acoustic ( sorry for my english here - not native language) phenomenas
So far I do agree with the way Joachim tried to describe the music reproduction
quality. It is undoubtably " ausgeformt" in all criterias has a profound tonality and I loved the information, speed, naturalness, big punch, small punch, energy everywhere - and it did like my amplifiers also, so even more pleasure
on my side..
We had more precission in the criteria Joachim called "Focus"
with one of the other buffers then..
Joachims system has a really precise and big soundstage
wide and deep and dynamically homogenous, meaning :
Big dynamics and still open to all acoustic information at any level in that monent ...
when dynamic information should be tiniest they shouldn't be attificially thrown in your face but still precisely audible and distinguished from all other
musical contributors - Joachims system allows to audition including these
criterias in most of the setups these days.
eg : dynamic informations when far away are also very clear and " formed " well belonging to the instrument even at pianissimo.
So with this reproduction environment , we spend hours with listening
and I enjoyed especially the buffer comparison and the rauschfrei ( for a long time Joachim and i didn't have a rauschfrei in our hands, so it really was
an evening that was very enjoyable , no stress but joy in listening!)
Thanks Kean for the sharing and a heartfelt WOW! regarding the result
Good Night ( as if Audio People ever sleep..)
Martina
PS forgot to name the complete system Joachim used when I had the chance to listen to
Keans buffer
Lyra Titan i MC with Centroid Tonarm, Immedia spiral groove turntable
Also we tried with the Kean a little Rega with AKG P8 ES retipped which was fun
cable were Mundorf (silver/gold) , Wireworld, a cable Alan Perkins supplied, Nordost
and Matthias Kurz cables - so when we would doubt any oscillation is induced
by interaction with a given cable design , Joachim inquires quite quickly and we
have enouhj stuff that collected itself at Joachims place to swap
Phonostages - you name it! - any MPP stage
we started with the valve phono, then the Rauschfrei ( three cheers!)
and two MM versions from this MPP thread with the little Rega deck
Buffers where Kean and two others, Joachim could give the name if wanted , because
I simply cannot remember what the design was - one was an upgraded double
mono design, that we gave the best verdict for that moment of testing
Power Amp an LA Audio version ( Modified by Joachim and friends)
As well as another prototype Amp
Speaker were a new development Joachim names Tangram
on other occassins we have some other speakers of Joachims fundus at hand
many with very good chassis to listen to.
I would consider his system to be of great monitor quality, so it helps to identify
what halpens sonically, but also test ones temptation to just " like or dislike" something
without proof - Joachims system allowed me quite often to find, identify
and correct built errors -
