Friends, greetings to all! Please don't laugh, but the question I want to ask is very important to me. For the last years I have been looking for "my" sound. But I haven't been able to find it yet... I have no goals to search just for the sake of the search itself, and I really want to buy something already and stop there. My goal is to find the sound in the highest quality and at the same time in the most portable version. I'm looking for an interesting sound that conveys energy and mood, not just a direct wave. And ideally, an all-in-one system so that it can be moved from one room to another.
Below I will list what audio systems I had and how I feel about them, maybe you can help me with something:
Over the past few years I have had
1) Elac Vela + Naim Atom and then Naim Unity. It wasn't a bad bunch, but it sounded a little boring. Besides, it was really difficult to carry it around the house. Unity sounded better than Atom, but the sound still seemed too ordinary. I didn't want listen to him too much. Also there was no equalizer in the system and I couldn't adjust the wall buzz, the bass was too sluggish and booming.
2) Next, I listened to a lot of different speakers in a variety of form factors. I found something that I really liked, it was the Focal Utopia Scala Evo 3 + Classe amplifiers. These audio speakers convey the mood in detail, you literally hear the energy in the air. But they are unfortunately expensive for me so far, and there is nowhere to even put them because of their size.
3) Then I tried to look in the direction of absolutely finished devices. I bought naim mu-so2. And it wasn't bad, but it really lacked stereo sound. I was forced to sell it too.
4) Since I travel a lot, I bought myself 2 pieces of Dali Katch g2. And you will really laugh, but they give the best sound that I have heard in recent years)) They have an amazing study of the voice, it's sugary and incredibly lively. For example, I turn on Diary of Dreams band and literally see gloomy castles and croaking crows, and then I turn on Louis Armstrong and feel like I got into the 60s. I do not know how they did it, but these are very cool devices that you can put close to yourself. They are not affected by the room, the location, and they are just cool. They have only one disadvantage - the lack of bass. Therefore, they cannot play electronic and especially rock music properly.
5) Next, I decided to buy Devialet Phantom 1 108db. And... it's perfect for me as a form factor, it can be moved from room to room, I like the design... But it's terribly boring. I absolutely don't want to listen to him. He just conveys nuances in technical detail, but I don't feel the soul in this sound. It does not attract at all (what hifi journalists wrote about it, unfortunately I read about it later).
I also tried to listen Kef ls50 2 wireless (a completely incomprehensible sound for me, the basses are separate, the tops are separate and the whole scene sounds somehow wrong), once bought dali oberon and dali rubicon active versions (the first are too bright, the second are not bad, but the sound handwriting that sounds good in a close field on dali katch but on dali rubicon it sounds somehow too "synthetic"). I returned all these speakers back to the store after 1-2 days of listening.
I also listened in detail to the B&W Formation Duo (unnatural sound for me, without depth, warmth and natural energy transfer), many options from Bang&Olufsen (there is no detail and clarity, for example, in comparison with Beolit 20 stereo vs Dali Katch stereo, Dali wins easily on medium and high frequencies, except bass).
It's not worth saying that many sellers in my area already know me, and they don't seem to know me in a very good word)))
Maybe you guys can tell me something. My ideal: a relatively portable system that plays deep, wide, beautifully and can convey the mood without slipping into dry sound analytics. But I am also ready to consider more "big" solutions, for example passive speakers + all-in-one streamer, if you think that this will be the perfect sound (but of course it is better for me if it will be an active all-in-one system). I would also like the speakers to convey all genres from the heaviest metal to classical and ambient, i.e. to be as multi-genre as possible.
While the sellers have not yet completely hated me, I will be able to listen to everything that you offer me to listen to))
My budget is now about $6000 (the price of 2 Devialet Phantom) but it can be cheaper of course
Below I will list what audio systems I had and how I feel about them, maybe you can help me with something:
Over the past few years I have had
1) Elac Vela + Naim Atom and then Naim Unity. It wasn't a bad bunch, but it sounded a little boring. Besides, it was really difficult to carry it around the house. Unity sounded better than Atom, but the sound still seemed too ordinary. I didn't want listen to him too much. Also there was no equalizer in the system and I couldn't adjust the wall buzz, the bass was too sluggish and booming.
2) Next, I listened to a lot of different speakers in a variety of form factors. I found something that I really liked, it was the Focal Utopia Scala Evo 3 + Classe amplifiers. These audio speakers convey the mood in detail, you literally hear the energy in the air. But they are unfortunately expensive for me so far, and there is nowhere to even put them because of their size.
3) Then I tried to look in the direction of absolutely finished devices. I bought naim mu-so2. And it wasn't bad, but it really lacked stereo sound. I was forced to sell it too.
4) Since I travel a lot, I bought myself 2 pieces of Dali Katch g2. And you will really laugh, but they give the best sound that I have heard in recent years)) They have an amazing study of the voice, it's sugary and incredibly lively. For example, I turn on Diary of Dreams band and literally see gloomy castles and croaking crows, and then I turn on Louis Armstrong and feel like I got into the 60s. I do not know how they did it, but these are very cool devices that you can put close to yourself. They are not affected by the room, the location, and they are just cool. They have only one disadvantage - the lack of bass. Therefore, they cannot play electronic and especially rock music properly.
5) Next, I decided to buy Devialet Phantom 1 108db. And... it's perfect for me as a form factor, it can be moved from room to room, I like the design... But it's terribly boring. I absolutely don't want to listen to him. He just conveys nuances in technical detail, but I don't feel the soul in this sound. It does not attract at all (what hifi journalists wrote about it, unfortunately I read about it later).
I also tried to listen Kef ls50 2 wireless (a completely incomprehensible sound for me, the basses are separate, the tops are separate and the whole scene sounds somehow wrong), once bought dali oberon and dali rubicon active versions (the first are too bright, the second are not bad, but the sound handwriting that sounds good in a close field on dali katch but on dali rubicon it sounds somehow too "synthetic"). I returned all these speakers back to the store after 1-2 days of listening.
I also listened in detail to the B&W Formation Duo (unnatural sound for me, without depth, warmth and natural energy transfer), many options from Bang&Olufsen (there is no detail and clarity, for example, in comparison with Beolit 20 stereo vs Dali Katch stereo, Dali wins easily on medium and high frequencies, except bass).
It's not worth saying that many sellers in my area already know me, and they don't seem to know me in a very good word)))
Maybe you guys can tell me something. My ideal: a relatively portable system that plays deep, wide, beautifully and can convey the mood without slipping into dry sound analytics. But I am also ready to consider more "big" solutions, for example passive speakers + all-in-one streamer, if you think that this will be the perfect sound (but of course it is better for me if it will be an active all-in-one system). I would also like the speakers to convey all genres from the heaviest metal to classical and ambient, i.e. to be as multi-genre as possible.
While the sellers have not yet completely hated me, I will be able to listen to everything that you offer me to listen to))
My budget is now about $6000 (the price of 2 Devialet Phantom) but it can be cheaper of course
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