Thomas Seok Hwan Kong Class D musings, YouTube vids and other streams of consciousness

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    I had been doing home audition of Orchard Starkrimson amp since last Thursday.

    It sounds very transparent with lot of detials.

    I also have Schitt Aegir which I had enjoyed for last two months for warm and full bodied sound.

    But Aegir sounds opaque compared with Starkrimson.

    This moring I had compared with my friend's Dartzeel 108, Starkrimson and my Line Magnetic 508 fitted with vintage tubes.

    He really like my Line Magnetic 508.

    Dartzeel 108 falls short of my tube amp in overall musicality.

    He is also of opinion that as good as Starkrimson is, it sounds somewhat thin compared with Dartzeel 108.

    He had auditioned Atmashphere D class amp for 10 days at his home.

    He is of the opinion that Atma sounds fuller than Starkrimson.

    Thus despite the higher price, He prefer Atma to Starkrimson.

    But I am of the opinion that Starkrimson is a good value and tunable with tube pre amp.
     
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    When he came, one of tube in Schitt Freya+ got dead, thus I had to use SS balanced buffer.

    He is of the opinion that Atma D matches Dartzeel but Starkrimson is not on the same level as Dartzeel 108/

    After he left, I replaced dead tube in Schitt Freya+ and with that Starkrimson sounds much more musical



    I sent this link to my friend.

    He also agreed that it got much better.

    I have few more days to listen to Starkrimson but regard it as good value.

    Unfortunately, I can not give opinion between Starkrimson and Atma D.
     
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    Damn, there are so many things going on in that room! What are those 3-pronged fork things?
     
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    Source Aurender N30 and Dave(modified with three Farad LPs), Mscaler.

    Pre Margules anniversary

    Pap C1 active crossvoer

    Starkrimson drove main tower of Scaena 3.2 180 hz up.

    Altec basshorn 180 hz and down

    Two Scaena 18 inch subwoofers from 56 hz and down
     
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    If you tune the sound with tube pre, Starkrimson sounds pretty nice.

    I use Sylvania vt231 at input Amperex at buffer in Schitt Freya+ just in front of Starkrimson for balanced output.
     
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    I also have Raal Sr1a, Stax s009 and 800s headphones,

    But recently I do not use headphone since I enjoy dynamics of my main speaker system.
     
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    Thanks for sharing. And the squiggly things just to the outside of the Altec horns?
     
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    Super tweeters that I had used with Altec horn.

    But now it is disconnected.
     
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    Damn, I watched the whole video wanting to see the cat.
     
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    I had switched to Vaughn Cabernett ii speaker.

    How about voide of Billie Ellish?
     
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    Pretty deep soundstage and fast sound.

    I believe that Orchard is a really nice class D amp at reasonable price.

    Pretty deep soundstage and faxt sound.

    I believe that Orchard is a really nice class D amp at reasonable price.
     
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    It sounds pretty musical.



    I also have Crown Xls 2502 but it is no match with Starkrimson in refinement at all.[
     
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    Still no cat.

    Unless it was on the soundtrack. I didn't turn the sound on.
     
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    How about this?

    You can not see the cat yet?

    Starkrimson drive main tower of Scaena 3.2 from 180 hz and up.
     
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    Maybe its me, but I don't understand watching a YouTube video to try and compare the sound of speakers/amps/preamps/etc. But I do appreciate seeing the sound system... (but better shown off as a well-lit image in the Pictures of your speaker system thread)
     
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