I'd say so, but it conforms to the Harman better than the other two, and female vocals are quite good/great even so.

Fifty two fifty or fight? Well close anyhow...

Sorb of high Duro in the shape of fender washers are useful for me in increasing leg length of equipment. But if you need it to shape or stick to something? Meh or worse. Add: I increased the height of the shrimpy woefully short/tiny feet of my Rag 1 using Sorb,

w/o EQ and with sufficient amp - Stealth hands down. With PEQ (not just fixed freq EQ) the 800S gets close and has better pin-point imaging in the stage. But the Stealth w/ EQ to lower the mid treble again tops the 800S Not saying the Arya is bad just not as good, although I have not heard...

Curious if you ever heard the Kara vs your Freya? I know the OG Freya - which is certainly very good, and I heard the Kara at a meet - but not long enough to form a useful opinion. Thanks.

Depends on which versions. I found with the initial versions of both the Gumby to be more to my taste. Not true with several of the newer Yggy. Either way R2R (multibit) seems to me to be the true path (W.R.T. digital) to musical truth - as close as recordings can get that is.

But do you know all 58 words Arnold said in T1?

Hey, you got a dead cat in there?

dynamat is stickier

Rubber is flexible why not wrap/affix part of it around the cable even with something as simple as zip ties?

Used Arya Stealth?

reflection and absorption - easy to get too much or not enough, the real quieter of obnoxious sounds is getting the early and late reflections tamed. Diffusion and decetn sized rooms with solid floors, walls, apertures, and any sloping surfaces is the way - and wall to wall carpeting is the...

True to an extent, but w/ planars - the wattage makes them mightier. Same with planar headphones - they like the Class A, but the excess behind them on my Rag 1 sets them over lower watt non sliding bias amps. That was also the trick with Art's CLS IIz's and the Pass X-150 over the Aleph 5.

Better (proper Q bass) over the S, but in need of the treble mod - but older too. They say the new ones have better bass than the earlier S's - but I have not heard them myself.

Let me ask. To you what does impact mean? To me its rise time/snap like say a HE-6 screw - to some it's the sustain and volume - like a bass cannon closed back dynamic. I agree it does lack impact (by either definition) - and cans such as a HE-500, HE-6 SE, and less so ZMF Auteur are below...

Yeah I was always a Pass guy but my Stasis 3 was best w dynamics and the X Series from Pass came too late for the Duetta, and the Aleph's just could not crank the bass. I did enjoy the Classe CA-400 with the Maggie 3.3R however. But my best system was w/ the Verity Parsifal Encore and Pass X-150.

Ohhh that's it! Seriously, they have to be some of the last OG Duetta Sigs anywhere (I don't believe rebuilt) - had them for awhile, but I didn't have the room for them, not to mention enough Krell power to drive 'em. Classics.

True, those pieces of cardboard are not cognoscenti approved - should be at least teak if not some ZMF tropical wood - hand rubbed with Tung oil - then dried with raw linen ! :sunglasses:

Wow, first person that agrees that once music gets over 3 pieces tinkling the BHA-1 gets this IM issue with images sucking into each other and breaking down. Yes mid gain of Rag 1 & 2 is warmer - that's where I go, unless its some very specific mid stuff I want as clean as possible. That M3...

THAT's THEM! Those are the aluminum cables - must have been from Mal's high tech buddies !!

Oops - sorry I meant best, not pest... that's pretty solid. I mod friends rooms and x-overs gratis - and gave away LP's and headphones, but not at that level. Salud

Never got an answer from on high on my theory that Rag low gain is like a pre-amp w/o the gain stage - better more crystalline def, but, lacks drive at the extremes. High gain is for speakers only - unless you want hearing damage from an OG HE-6, it's clearly diritier sounding - like it's...

Bet that there are 10 counterfeits for every real one - at least, and probably none that test out 100% - unobtainium - except for that pest that has everything....:)

Oh, that helps.... time to kick the dog..... just kidding he's awesome