Orchard Audio Burr Brown DAC and ORCHARD AUDIO AKM DAC Comparison

Here are my picks for what its worth

Top Rooms:

1. Vienna Acoustics Imperials + REL Stacked Sub Array + Boulder Separates = Phenomenal sound. They played a track from a Tool album (not my pick) and it was awesome. Totally listenable and engaging. No harshness whatsoever even though this is a metal band. Felt like I went through a transcendent experience.
2. Hegel Room: H390 + Sonus Faber Electa Amator III = Super simple system that took total control of the small room. Kept looking for the sub that wasn’t there. 
3. Revel Room: F228BE + Mark Levinson Integrated = Crystal clear balanced sound with no fatigue at all. Nearly full range with chest thumping yet tight bass. Detailed highs. I want a pair ($7K).
4. Sonus Faber Room: Olympica Nova Vs + can’t recall the gear stack = Slam in spades. The image was a little larger than life but great soundstage and dynamics. My wife wants a pair but they are not in the current budget at $17K.
5. Acora Room: SRC-1 two way made of granite using Scanspeak drivers. Run with ARC separates. Sounded real. Like there was a violinist in the room. Pricing is way off though, $36K. 

Other Standouts:

• Salk Room: Beautiful and great sounding speakers.
• Elac Room: Great standmounts for not a lot of dough. Carina gives the Kef LS50s a run for the money and are hundreds less too boot! Debut Reference sets a new standard for $500 standmounts.
• Kanto Room: Tuk two way actives with ATM tweeters are a real gateway into HiFi. They have a remote control, built in amps and DAC with wireless capability. Plus there is a switchable crossover for adding a subwoofer. These were really quite good at $700.

Best,

Paul Righello

Held at the Trinity Lutheran Church at 7th Ave and Hatcher 7pm.

Bring your thumb drive or CDs. Each member is drawn from a hat

and everyone will hear 2 minutes of the piece. Drawing for Prizes!!

 LIST of Music Heard

• Linda Ronstadt & Nelson Riddle – ‘Round Midnight’ (2CD)

This is a compilation of 3 CD’s – ‘For Sentimental Reasons’, ‘What’s New’ and ‘Lush Life’.

• Al Stewart – ‘Year of the Cat’ CD. Track played – ‘On the Stage Before’.
• Benny’s Gis – ‘Calypso Serenade’.

From a live recording made by club member Ben Taylor for The Phoenix Chamber Music Society.

David Shifrin – Clarinet

Pablo Asign – Double Base

• Lee Barber – ‘All Night Long’.

Recorded by club member Stuart Yaniger in his living room. 

Available on Stuart’s website: syclotrom.com

• ‘Greatest Video Game Music III’. Choral edition. By Orphei Drangar & Myrra Malmberg

Track played – ‘Skyrim Dragonborn’.

• Isao Tomita – RCA Red Seal – ‘Greatest Hits’. Track played – ‘Close Encounters’.

Willias 1986/1979 – 70:19

• ‘The Best of Cusco’ – ‘Montezuma’ & ‘Didjeridoo’.
• Mary Stallings – ‘Live at the Village Vanguard’.

Track played – ‘Sunday Kind of Love’.

• Jennifer Warnes - ‘The Hunter’

Track played – ‘I Will Rock You Gently’.

• Peter Mulvey & Kris Delmhorts – ‘Redbird’.

Track played – ‘Moonglow’.

• ‘Crowded House’. Track played – ‘Don’t Dream it’s Over’.
• ‘Endless Journey’. Track played – ‘Amazing Grace’.

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