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Thank You!!! LOL....only useful if someone tries to take the system away! Then again a Smith & Wesson or Ruger logo comes in handy then too :D |
FYI all...Elrod cabling for power, analog interconnect and speaker cables have been a core part of this system since 2009 in various revisions of Signature Gold and Statement Gold levels.
***Elrod has just finished his "Master Series" design upgrades for his Statement Silver, Statement Gold and Diamond power cords, interconnects and speaker cables. I am told by a couple of people that are running them already that they are "beyond words" great in their sonic and musical performance and they are yet another huge improvement in what is possible with SOTA audio cables...AND that they actually surpass his latest DIAMOND level cables. Oh well...an audio-nuts job (of obsessing) is never done; I will be trying some of these in the months to come! As for the TAD R1 "Minions"; The R1s are 340 hours in and strutting their stuff definitively, continuing to open up more and more every couple days of burn-in. Bass is now super-tight, articulate and accurate with extension and depth here that is making me very happy. The measure of any speaker is not just bass but the total spectrum. The R1s have amazing mids and highs with gorgeous transient rendering in all frequency bands, wonderful spatial presentation, air around instruments, ultra-precise imaging and soundstaging in all 3 dimensions. I am hearing notes, instruments, voices and overall ensembles in amazing and new ways. The sheer mass and density of the cabinets on these is very impressive; seems to contribute further to the rock-solid and accurate rendition of every single note. Extremely happy here with every aspect of how the system is and sounds,... |
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Extremely happy here with every aspect of how the system is and sounds... :meditate: Audio Nut Job; Time to tweak & Upgrade... :laughin: |
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The sentence,....a good case of the Lu Flu!!! Still having very "Grandioso" dreams :yes::yes::yes:!!! |
Over 425 hours on the R1s of detailed break-in.....they have hit their stride so to speak and bass has tightened up further, presence in the room both on-axis in that ultra-wide 3-seat sweet spot and off axis and anywhere in the house the sound reaches is off the charts. Very happy with results with these heavyweight contenders for the 'one of the world's best speakers...' category.
Anyone contemplating them, contact me for some candid discussion of what I've heard along the way and what I'm hearing as they've fully opened up. |
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ELROD new MASTER SERIES Statement Gold Power Cord:
Installed ONE of these in the system today on my Esoteric A-02 power amp to replace a 2 year old Elrod Statement Gold next-gen cable as a test. Cable was cooked for 6 days and then rounded out by David on his system to a full 2 weeks of burn-in. To say the design changes are major would be a huge understatement....double the width of the widest ribbons used to date and double the count over what was already his latest generation design for Statement Gold; that's all that can be said. Furutech's latest FI-50 NCF connectors are utilized as they were determined to be superior to anything else available. Within the first 12 hours the phrase (which I've only used once before for any cable) "component-level upgrade" came to mind. It's as if my amp had been further upgraded along with my entire system. This is no exaggeration and I'm surprised at the uplift from a single power cord from the level I already was experiencing. All frequency bands experienced significant changes for the better, an already 3-dimensional wrap-around soundstage on most recordings became an even more dense, musical energy-filled 3D wrap-around deeply immersive soundstage on EVERY recording, every note, voice, etc...became even more real and life-like, inner detail increased on most material (already have tons of inner detail thanks to the TAD R1s), musical energy increased in the room and the listener is pulled even deeper into the recording. I found myself rewinding or starting tracks over many times as the surprise factor with this change was extremely high. I had talked to a couple of guys who had gone this route picking up this brand new cable family in the last month; they were saying that the Master Series Golds eclipsed the Diamond and MBX2 families of cables and simply blew the doors off the latest Statement Gold generation. That all sounded hard to believe (particularly the part about eclipsing MBX2 and Diamond/X2; after 12 hours, I do believe it to be true... Tough part about the Elrod line is the website has not been updated in a long, long time as more time is spent on design and build than on marketing. My advice is to reach out to me or others using these cables and get some candid conversations going. Also, you can easily reach David Elrod via phone / email; he's a wealth of knowledge and will discuss cables, music, system design/synergy with any serious audio-nut. It's been a very surprising day and yes, the cable is more impressive in person than it even is in these pictures. Some basic pictures below....forgive the photo skills :music: https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...5&d=1487478961 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...4&d=1487478940 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...3&d=1487478917 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...2&d=1487478892 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...1&d=1487478869 |
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Updated photos to show R1s after the Ultra5 Footers were installed (no spikes, none necessary given weight of speaker and adherence of Ultra5 to whatever they sit on...).
Still to install...5 Furutech NCF outlet sets (Electricians slow to respond around here, good ones worth waiting for) Enjoy! https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...6&d=1487485498 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...7&d=1487485513 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...8&d=1487485527 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...9&d=1487485543 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...0&d=1487485559 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...1&d=1487485579 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...2&d=1487485594 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...3&d=1487485617 https://www.audioaficionado.org/atta...4&d=1487485642 |
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