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I don't own one, but considered it. I use Denali 6000T.
You can find some good impressions from other owners here..
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/a...00-or-7000
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Many thanks for your comments. Hoping to have one in-house in the next few days for evaluation.
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When you're testing would you tell me if they've yet fixed the hum, or if the Audioquest power conditioners still add noise by humming?
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Excellent. It seemed very strange that Audioquest would make a noise suppressor that hums, but they did. I'm glad they've fixed that. Thanks for letting me know. Enjoy!
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I am contemplating buying the Niagra 5000 together with the tornado C19 power cable. The only thing stopping me is the price tag (£5000). That is a lot of money considering the D440 Pro CI is just around £14K. So my question is how much increment in sound quality do we get and is it worth £5K? I am finding that when listening to classical orchestral pieces the D440 Pro soundstage tends to collapse. My frontend is the Sotm triple set and a Melco N1A, all wired with audio quest diamond cables.
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08-Nov-2018, 10:17
(This post was last modified: 08-Nov-2018, 10:23 by Rama.)
Devialet 440 Pro CI is already a very capable machine. However the presentation falls apart when playing complex musical pieces. I have always heard about how on a good hifi you can hear how big the recording venue was, another sort after characteristic is soundstage depth and layering. Does the Niagra 5000 add to any of the above attributes?
On a separate note I had also read about how on a good setup you can hear individual guitar strings. Well after adding the AQ Tornado to my mains block it became very apparent as to what all the hifi magazines were alluding to. So obviously there is some merit to claims that AQ as a company is doing something special.