28-Nov-2014, 19:44
(This post was last modified: 28-Nov-2014, 19:46 by GuillaumeB.)
Hi KW,
Can you give us details of the rest of your setup? Are you streaming via AIR for example?
Over the past year I've carried out a lot of tweaks to my 800 and feel that I have taken it to a completely new level SQ-wise, there is absolutely no way I could go back to how it sounded before.
To give you some perspective I recently borrowed a Vitus SIA-025 amplifier with a Vitus MPD-201 DAC for an extended home dem (so well over £50k of electronics) . Whilst I really enjoyed the dense (warmish) soundstage that the Vitus Class A electronics give you, not to mention the musicality of the system in the end I started to miss my Devialet again. I think my souped up 800 can take one most über high end offerings now. My mantra is "everything matters" and even if individual tweaks make a tiny amount of difference in the end they all add up.
Guillaume
Can you give us details of the rest of your setup? Are you streaming via AIR for example?
Over the past year I've carried out a lot of tweaks to my 800 and feel that I have taken it to a completely new level SQ-wise, there is absolutely no way I could go back to how it sounded before.
To give you some perspective I recently borrowed a Vitus SIA-025 amplifier with a Vitus MPD-201 DAC for an extended home dem (so well over £50k of electronics) . Whilst I really enjoyed the dense (warmish) soundstage that the Vitus Class A electronics give you, not to mention the musicality of the system in the end I started to miss my Devialet again. I think my souped up 800 can take one most über high end offerings now. My mantra is "everything matters" and even if individual tweaks make a tiny amount of difference in the end they all add up.
Guillaume
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