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Incredible sound!

Dec 2, 2021
2 min read

Incredible sound!


I have abandoned all other formats and now listen exclusively to digital music. I began my

streaming journey with the DAC in the Bluesound Node 2i, then upgraded to the Schiit Modi

Multibit. The step up to the Pontus II is such a quantum leap in sonic quality!


I’m listening mostly with Qobuz, with some Amazon HD where the Qobuz catalog falls short. The soundstage and definition are incredible... The dynamic range in the Herbert von Karajan recording of Holst’s The Planets, especially “Mars,” is downright frightening. In Shirley Horn’s “How Am I To Know?”, you can feel – not just hear – Charlie Ables’ fingers slide up and down the strings of his bass. Hi-res recordings are even more amazing. Listening to Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” (24/192) I closed my eyes and could visualize the exact angle of the placement of McCoy

Tyner’s piano, and could “see” that Elvin Jones’s drum kit was further back in the studio, etc.


Likewise, on Neil Young’s remastered “Out on the Weekend” (24/192), the clarity of the vibrations of the bass’ speaker cone, and the attack and then decay of energy as the drumstick

hits the snare allows you to get completely lost and feel like you’re actually in the studio.


I was shocked to hear details I had never noticed before on that song – like when someone

accidentally brushes up against a microphone...


The Pontus II is something very, very special.




Equipment:


Digital chain:

• Raspberry Pi 4, with Allo Shanti linear power supply (running Moode) USB out into IRIS

DDC; I2S out into Pontus II (controlled via Linn Kazoo; likely moving to Roon on Mac Mini

hardware running Linux for better user interface)


• Additional Chromecast HDMI out to Tendak HDMI audio de-embedder SP/DIF optical

out into Pontus II for casting YouTube and other random sources as needed


Preamp:

• PrimaLuna EVO 300


Power/Speakers:

• Two PrimaLuna EVO 100 Stereo amps, each amp driving one B&W CM7 in bi-amped

configuration


Sub:

• Sunfire True Jr.


Misc:

• Morrow Audio interconnects and speaker cables

• Furman power conditioning



Credit: Glenn K, San Francisco


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