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Description : | When it first entered the Neill reference system with about 200 hours on it, the effect was sensational and…destabilizing. Ultra-wide sound-stage, warm and full presentation, lots of apparent detail and low-level information through the mid-range. We were awash with sound and music. Very tactile, very affecting, very…desirable. A call went off to Barry of Backwoods Ontario immediately, announcing that we might well have discovered a player both households could agree on. We lived with this highly engaging new audio experience for several days and then, to sober up, put our reference Naim CDS2 back into the system. Immediately the sound stage shrank by about 25 percent (which, to be honest, felt a little more natural) and presence, palpability, and tactility diminished. But the beauty, clarity, refinement, and the satisfying overall firmness we were familiar with appeared in their wake. It would be facile to say we were being confronted by the almost always mystifying contrast of the analogue and digital faces of audio. But that's what it felt like. |
