First track came from this album:
Marvellous!
Of course, not everything is comparable to our system at home.
The room is different, cabling also.
But there was the Vivid sound and I do know the Hegel sound too.
Our G2 Giyas offer a bit more body and delicacy than their more modest brothers Kaya 45.
What impressed me here was that there was quite a lot more separation and soundstage depth than I'm used to hear at home.
It was all a bit more lifelike also.
We were in for another surprise.
We thought the album was on the server of the store, but when we checked the pathway in Roon, we saw it was an 'ordinary' Tidal stream!
These findings were confirmed when I put the following album in the CEC tray:
'Black Coffee' is a fantastic piece of jazz.
Just Ella plus piano.
Her voice was more present in the room than I could remember having ever heard.
This effect became even stronger in the first piece of 'Folk Singer':
The only audiophile blues album it is sometimes called.
I had never heard the venue so well.
Wow, the MU1 transforms CDs into terrific source material!
And Tidal or Qobuz streams undergo the same metamorphosis.
10K seemed more and more reasonable...
From above:
The gold coloured knob in the middle serves as source selector.
Can be pushed and turned.
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