Sidebar: This week I decided to move my lone Defender v2 from the living room two-channel AV system, where it partnered with a Hydra 8 v2, to my principal "serious listening" bedroom system, where a Delta D6 fed by a Delta XC (v2) handles all the power distribution chores.
I didn't expect to hear any appreciable difference with the Defender plugged into the same duplex as the D6. WRONG. The difference could be characterized as a lot of "bits"--a bit more spatial air, a bit wider and deeper soundstage, a bit heftier low end, a bit more liquid midrange, a bit more apparent, better-defined top-end extension, and a bit more layering between instrumental and vocal choirs. Just "bits", but added together they constitute a not-earthshaking but noticeable improvement that puts the listener a step or two closer to the performance as conceived and delivered by the recording producers', engineers', and artists' miking and mixing decisions.
Whatever the "running change", Shunyata did good.
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Jim
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