THE JOURNEY BACK FROM SONOS

At Headphone Auditions, it is my privilege to witness people’s journey back out of the depth of Sonos Hell to the salvation of Personal Audio and sometimes even (back) to Speakers.

TOP-END HEAD-FI = 2/3 HIGH-END HIFI

My Top End Headphone Amplifiers often are build to drive efficient Speakers as well. Or – in case of Air Tight – the manufacturer builds for me a headphone jonction box for their Speaker Amplifier.

In both cases, my customer finds himself with a Headphone System which is already the better part of a very natural sounding speaker system.

THE 1ST WATT

As many music lovers, I’m a firm believer low power amplification combined with efficient speaker. What might sound like a compromise (headphone amp on speakers) is actually – for me – the Holy Grail.

CURATED STREAMING

And for the rest of us mortals there still is the super-cheat: The Streaming System is selected for the shop are carefully curated streaming system

Under 1.000,-
Your Only Choice at sub 1k€

The Devialte Mania is the Audio-Hack that will sound suprisingly impressive where you put it – and you can put it where-ever!

It will listen to itself in the room – or lack of room in the garden for example – and adapt to it.

You have to hear ear before you invest in any other system under 2-3k€.

Under 5.000,-

Guru Q10 + 

The Q10 is one of a kind, I’m still looking for the perfect partner!

Under 10.000,-

Dutch &Dutch 6c

I have the 8c on show and you will get a good idea of what the 6c will do in a smaller room: It will do wonders.

Under 15.000,-

Dutch &Dutch 8c

This is you perfect point&shoot highend system. 

It is 2 speakers, 2 powercords, 2 LAN cables and you Spotify or Roon 

Under 30.000,-

Avantgarde Acoustic Opus 1 x dCS LINAx

The Most Consquent Streaming System combines the oldest away to amplify sound with the most modern Streaming Technology

Under 80.000,-

T+A Soltaire S 530
T+A PA 3100 HV
dCS LINA

Okay, when you go to hifi shows they will often talk about the ‘holographic imaging’ meaning that the sound completly detaches from the speakers.

I’ve witnessed this exactly with one system, and that happens to be this one. The planar array tweeter does the magic. It only works in the quite narrow sweet-spot of these speakers, but when you put your head there – it’s over, you have arrived. 

You should give it a try…