They look smart ,are they directional?
They look smart ,are they directional?
Location: Troon
Posts: 2,476
I'm tony.
Received them safe and sound this afternoon-half way through solid air....initial impressions are very very good!
Oli advises they need a few hours under they're belt-will post up when ive got my head round them.
Location: KY - Scotland
Posts: 5,472
I'm Mike.
Location: Troon
Posts: 2,476
I'm tony.
Honeymoon period...trying to trip them up with material-they wont swither!!!
So far they are solid-just cant be shaken.....proper cables IMHO.
Location: Troon
Posts: 2,476
I'm tony.
I have ordered a 0.5m pair from Oliver.
My impressions are as follows.
Ive been round the cable block a few times and have numerous bakeoffs with the Scottish troops.
My go to cable has been Mark Grant 2000s with the wbt 0110 ag plugs.
I have numerous others but already know the MG is the front runner in all my systems.
OK the Spotfire...
Beautiful build quality as good as anything I have purchased.
The KLE plugs are a really good fit on my phono sockets.
Tonally they are very neutral with no discernible lift anywhere in the spectrum.
Fantastic detail retrieval.
Rock solid soudstage with the best instrument placement ive experienced .
I keep coming back to timing in my description-they just seem to capture drum rythms really well high hats and symbols sound terrific.
I have a personal dislike of sibilance on voices-female vocalist that close mic rip my knitting-the spotfire is really good in this respect.
The best ICs ive tried.
Considering the cost of plugs/cable/shrink wrap/braiding they represent a bit of a bargain IMHO.
I will continue to burn them in until my pair arrive and then will get them to Gary if thats OK with Oliver.
Usual caveat ....my kit/room/tunes/ears YMMV.
Look forward to trying them out Oliver, just as and when.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables