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Old 11-05-2017, 05:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Puma Cat View Post
I would say that the CT-5 is more neutral but no less musical. It's more transparent, resolving, quieter, with a more expansive sound and imaging, more "plankton", more nuanced, and has more drive (but not a lot). Still, you have you to bear in mind that the CT-5 sold for 20X as much as Valhalla 2 and it does not sound 20X better.
Well no, of course we can never expect multiples of better performance at multiples of price. That was never the case with audio unfortunately. But pretty amazing that the Valhalla 2 can even be put into the same system and taken seriously at $349 vs what was it, $7,500 or so CT-5?
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