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Discussion in 'Closed Loaners' started by Vansen, Oct 31, 2018.

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    Sign me up for round 2, please. In SoCal (live close to Clem and BillOhio).
     
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    Been mostly burning these in over the past week on the WM1A, racking up ~200 hours so far. These will go off to @captkirk on Friday or Saturday to start the tour with some impressions to follow.
     
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    Damn, if you guys in So Cal are having a get together to compare, I'd like to know. At least I can bring an extra pair of Andromedas to compare.
     
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    Would like to get ears on this in round 2 if possible.

    Didn't pay any attention to it when announced but I'll be having to use a portable setup more often going forward for the foreseeable future.

    Will be able to post some comparisons to my Lyra 2.

    Located in eastern MO.
     
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    Sorry I’ve been a ghost for the past two weeks. I’m catching up on things now.

    This went out to @captkirk a couple of days ago, which was about a week later than I hoped to get it out.

    The Solaris has about 300 hours on it from the balanced output of my WM1A as logged from its hour counter. The bass on the started to really come to life somewhere around the 50 to 100 hour range. There was some BA timbre and some distortion that seemed to go away somewhere after 150 hours. Im interested to hear this at then send of round two.

    I’m piloting this in a Pelican case. If it goes well, I may buy a couple for us.

    I’ll post some more impressions this weekend, but my impressions are in line with my those here that like the Solaris.
     
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    Solaris received from @Vansen.
     
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    Remove me from any pending lists. I don’t want to torture myself at this point with stuff I might fall in love with but can’t afford.
     
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    I just signed for a black suitcase that I assume is the either the Solaris, or wads of drug money. Will open soon.

    Update: Got the f'ing zipties off and it's unfortunately the solaris... Looking forward to these and will listen tonight.
     
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