Hello, it's your friendly neighbourhood pillar of salt here. Don't you just hate it when that happens? Just as you think you have everything sorted, you make life ‘interesting' for yourself.
Having gone on my Primare spending spree last week and been happy with what I heard last Friday evening, I set aside this evening to have a listen to various music styles and maybe tinker a little with the connection options I have. Although had I first connected the Primare CD31 to the Primare I30 with the Atlas Titans I purchased recently, there were the Jean Claude Van Damme balanced XLR leads that the vendor kindly included with the Primare kit.
So, with a while to settle down after work and other duties, and before having a bite (to eat) and unleashing the ferrety horde, I quickly set myself up and popped the Lens' A Word In Your Eye into the Primare CD31. The first track starts off with some outrageous bass and electronic weirdness, which the Primare combo handled well, giving a sense of controlled power and clear precision. Sounds good so far. OK, so time to try those XLR thingummies. A new concept to me, so I was wondering what would occur.
Straight away there was a difference, although I am still finding it hard to define. It's almost as if everything gets fine-tuned. Not immensely, but enough to note there is a difference. Listening to Melody Gardot's Who Will Comfort Me? Now I can hear the double bass for what it is much more clearly throughout, rather than periodically as before.
And then, I swear, the [6] made me do it! I hooked up the Marantz CD63 Mk2 KI Sig, via DacMagic, to the I30 (using my Atlas I/Cs) and that's where it's all becoming unravelled. "Don't look back!" That's what they say. Well, I did and now I'm stuck with trying to decide which does sound better! Of course, I will now have to attach the XLRs to the DacMagic for the benefit of the KI Sig. Dammit!
So, with my meal over with, and the ferrets relatively quiesecent after their initial explosion, it's down to some 'serious' listening...
Having gone on my Primare spending spree last week and been happy with what I heard last Friday evening, I set aside this evening to have a listen to various music styles and maybe tinker a little with the connection options I have. Although had I first connected the Primare CD31 to the Primare I30 with the Atlas Titans I purchased recently, there were the Jean Claude Van Damme balanced XLR leads that the vendor kindly included with the Primare kit.
So, with a while to settle down after work and other duties, and before having a bite (to eat) and unleashing the ferrety horde, I quickly set myself up and popped the Lens' A Word In Your Eye into the Primare CD31. The first track starts off with some outrageous bass and electronic weirdness, which the Primare combo handled well, giving a sense of controlled power and clear precision. Sounds good so far. OK, so time to try those XLR thingummies. A new concept to me, so I was wondering what would occur.
Straight away there was a difference, although I am still finding it hard to define. It's almost as if everything gets fine-tuned. Not immensely, but enough to note there is a difference. Listening to Melody Gardot's Who Will Comfort Me? Now I can hear the double bass for what it is much more clearly throughout, rather than periodically as before.
And then, I swear, the [6] made me do it! I hooked up the Marantz CD63 Mk2 KI Sig, via DacMagic, to the I30 (using my Atlas I/Cs) and that's where it's all becoming unravelled. "Don't look back!" That's what they say. Well, I did and now I'm stuck with trying to decide which does sound better! Of course, I will now have to attach the XLRs to the DacMagic for the benefit of the KI Sig. Dammit!
So, with my meal over with, and the ferrets relatively quiesecent after their initial explosion, it's down to some 'serious' listening...