10-19-2017, 07:44 PM
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Corvallis, OR
Posts: 1,605
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I have both flavors and am pleased with each in its appointed place.
An active (c-j Premier 17LS) control-centers my main system and a passive (Luminous Audio Technology Axiom II) volume-controls my single-high-level-source, acoustically-treated-to-death bedroom system.
I posted my impressions of the matched-to-my-system Axiom II elsewhere in this forum last June. The takeaway: in-spades transparency, no perceptible constriction of dynamics, soundstage, or bass down to the lowest limit of my Paradigm Studio 20s working in that room driven by a 125-wpc Sonographe solid-state amp. If anything, it sounds a shade more neutral (or, if you like, less "warm") in that setting than the Premier 17LS does in the main system. And the output is "quieter" (no hum or noise) than it was with either the tube/hybrid Counterpoint SA2000 or the FET-based Sonographe SC25 in the same system.
Overall take: Yummy. Which is all that matters to me.
Jim
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Bedroom: Aurender N150, Bryston BDA-3, EMIA Cu Elmaformer passive line stage, conrad-johnson MF2500, Paradigm Studio 20 v5. Shunyata Delta D6, Altaira CG hub. Shunyata Alpha XC, Delta NR v2, Alpha USB, Alpha and Venom CGC/SGC. Wireworld Eclipse 8 interconnect & speaker cables. Stillpoints footers, Butcher Block Acoustics maple platforms. Stillpoints and GIK acoustic panels.
Home Office:Windows 11 PC/JRiver 31, TEAC UD-505 AKM version, Luminous Audio Technology Axiom II Walker Mod passive, conrad-johnson Sonographe SA-250, Paradigm SE-1. Shunyata Hydra (Original Version), Venom 10 NR. Wireworld Eclipse 7 interconnects. Blue Jeans speaker cable.
Living-Dining Room: Windows 11 Laptop/JRiver 29, Oppo BD-83, TEAC UD-501 DAC, SOTA Sapphire TT, Graham Slee Era Gold V, Ortofon 2M Black, McIntosh MR-77, c-j Sonographe SC-25, c-j MF2500, Paradigm SE-3. Wireworld 8 IC, Blue Jeans SC. Shunyata Hydra 8 v.2, Shunyata Delta NR, Venom NR. GIK 244 bass & scatter-plate panels.
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