Rodney, for me and my room Vivid B1 Decade is ideal speaker and the one I was looking for many years now. This is the sound with "presence" but never fatiguing.
Powered by D400 and supported by Synergistic Research speaker cables and Audience aR-6 TSS passive conditioner, Vivid is quite revealing but never harsh or offensive, on the contrary. For me, this kind of "blackness" quitness is astonishing, music is really coming from a total silence!
Soundstage is layered and free in room.
The only imperfections are those coming from the room imperfections - slightly sibilance and harshness in mid high fr spectre, some echo and bass boom that I'm sure would be solved with spike pads (Finite Element or similar).
To describe the sound quality, I will use just these two atributes: ethereal and effortless.
Right now I'm listening John Abercrombie' "Timeless" and I can not explain peacefullness that's coming from the boxes.
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Audience aR-6 TSS > Acrolink 7N P4030 II > D400 > Synergistic Research Element CTS > Vivid B1d
Powered by D400 and supported by Synergistic Research speaker cables and Audience aR-6 TSS passive conditioner, Vivid is quite revealing but never harsh or offensive, on the contrary. For me, this kind of "blackness" quitness is astonishing, music is really coming from a total silence!
Soundstage is layered and free in room.
The only imperfections are those coming from the room imperfections - slightly sibilance and harshness in mid high fr spectre, some echo and bass boom that I'm sure would be solved with spike pads (Finite Element or similar).
To describe the sound quality, I will use just these two atributes: ethereal and effortless.
Right now I'm listening John Abercrombie' "Timeless" and I can not explain peacefullness that's coming from the boxes.
Audience aR-6 TSS > Acrolink 7N P4030 II > D400 > Synergistic Research Element CTS > Vivid B1d
Audience aR-6 TSS / Melco N1ZH / Audio Research CD5 / D400 / Vivid B1D
Synergistic Research Atmosphere / SR Element C.T.S.
