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took a big turn in system change. moving towards dynamics system which get me closer to live music. still fighting with room acoustics and compact room size. Pleasure of vinyl surpass cd by a miles.. almost happy for now but need to KEEP WALKING
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    • Vyger Baltic M
    Floating on Air. All Aluminum frame. very dynamics sounding.
    • SME 312
    12 inch that need to get used to
    • MY sonic labs Eminent Hyper
    smooth operator.. world class performance
    • Viola Labs Cadenza
    Transparency King.. with impedance matching capability to any amp and front end
    • Karan KA M 650
    hefty power in a cool compact chasis. Great bass performance and liquid high
    • virtual dynamics Revelation
    solid core, dynamics, powerful
    • virtual dynamics Genesis 1.1
    lost of words here
    • Rockport Technologies Aquila
    amazing dynamics and finesse at the same time
    • Esoteric X01-D2
    solid built get the last detail out from redbook
    • Esoteric clock
    must have for esoteric users
    • Power source custom
    Aluminium block CNC, small wire are for ground only not for AC

Comments 13

love this system!

davidhyman

Hey Voraratc,

Where's the tape deck? Haha :-)
Siriusly -lol- NICE!

Regards,
Sam

c1ferrari

Owner
yep

Karan got loads of power and take my rockport to the extreme with full control. and it keeps cool

voraratc

awesome. rockports.

(i've got a set of merak / sheritan v2s coming in next week).

karan match up well w/ the aquilas? i know andy is partial to high current amps w/ low output impedance.

congrats

rhyno

Owner
System edited: speaker change

voraratc

Owner
i have not try the fuse recommendation yet. any way i will check out the granite.. thx

voraratc

Voraratc: did you ever try the replacement fuses suggested by Rtn1 in the Karan? If so, did it make a large difference? Also, you mention the Esoteric benefits from grounding, something I know to be true from my P/D/G combo. Did you ever try the Granite Audio Ground Zero star-grounding station? I use on and it's never leaving my system; it made one hell of a difference!

zephyr24069

Very nice system. I know the Karan sound. I used to have the Kai-180 integrated and a friend of mine has the Kas-450. I keep wanting to go back to tubes and every time we compare tube amps to the 450(including SET's), I really cant tell much of a difference except, the Karan has more muscle. It really does hold its own in the midrange compared to SET's for such a big s/s amp. I am tempted by the Kas -270 and the Kal Ref mk2 preamp. Happy listening.

clivet

Owner
thanks, will see what i can do with the Karan

voraratc

Wonderful looking system, I bet it sounds spectacular. Congrats!

arthursmuck

Very nice. May I suggest that you open the Karan and replace all of the fuses with HiFI gold fuses. There are two in the back, and a set of circuit boards in the front with probably 8 more. The orientation is marked -/+ on the circuit board. I also put contact enhancer on all the fuses, and the copper bus bar inside. It became much more smooth, transparent, and open. The Karan really has a wonderful mid-range if matched properly with a preamp and cables.

rtn1

Owner
zephyr

thanks.. before moving to karan, i did try a couple amp my self. First was the ASR Emitter II, the ASR was very quiet and smooth and sweet. what it lack was dynamic and ambient, The only music prefer with the ASR was vocal. next searching for a more dynamic capability, i moved to Mark Levinson 33H. the power was great but high and mid are some what hash and dry. and it is very hot. then i finally move to Karan which give me a really smooth sound like the ASR and dynamics (more than levinson) in my point of view. so i am happy for now. Fore the Preamp, the viola labs is extremely transparent preamp. it give dramatic improvement over my two previous preamp [spectral DMC 30SL and Gryphon sonata allegro]. i never achieved a sound stage and transparency that i have now with the previous pre. the viola is really amazing it need to be heard to believe..

voraratc

That's a great looking system; I'm an Edge NL fan for amps myself but have heard the Karan amps spoken of with similar fanaticism by several friends. What else did you listen to in order to arrive at Karan and how do you like them? I'm not familiar with the Viola Labs piece. Can you shoot me some details on email or on this thread? Happy Listening!

zephyr24069

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