Comments on Profile Post by Collusion

  1. Collusion
    Collusion
    All the reviews on Youtube are wrong! The MK2's are etched/grainy as hell and no amplifier will ever fix that
    Apr 21, 2022
  2. rlow
    rlow
    Wow, surprised by this considering the almost universal praise that it’s better than the original. Are they well broken in? Sure you just didn’t get a bad pair (of course that’s pretty hard to be sure unless you had another)?
    Apr 21, 2022
  3. Riotvan
    Riotvan
    Saw a youtube review mentioning some upper mid hardness maybe you’re hearing that? Maybe the fancier than normal caps need to settle?
    Apr 21, 2022
  4. Collusion
    Collusion
    @rlow I had a B stock pair, but I chatted with the CEO Mads who said all the returned speakers are QC'd & measured before being passed to the next customer
    Apr 21, 2022
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  5. rlow
    rlow
    @Riotvan thinking the same thing - also the woofer is a new paper woofer compared to previous - , may need a lot of break in
    Apr 21, 2022
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  6. Collusion
    Collusion
    Considering they had been played well over 100 hours, I don't think it was a break-in issue.
    Apr 21, 2022
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  7. Collusion
    Collusion
    It actually makes sense, if the OG version was intentionally smoothed out. You can only go so far with a cheap tweeter. Try to tickle too much out of it and you only end up getting the characteristic timbre of the said tweeter
    Apr 21, 2022
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  8. Collusion
    Collusion
    The MK2 was an improvement on other areas though; tonal balance was better overall (no more shouty mids), treble detail was better (but with the caveat discussed above) and bass was maybe a tad cleaner
    Apr 21, 2022
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  9. Riotvan
    Riotvan
    Agreed at 100h i doubt it’s a burn in issue. If you don’t like em you don’t like em, shit happens. You seem to live pretty close so i hope shipping is reasonable…
    Apr 21, 2022
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  10. Collusion
    Collusion
    @Riotvan had them over 2 months. You live and you learn. Resale price was pretty reasonable though.
    Apr 21, 2022
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  11. rlow
    rlow
    What’s the rest of your chain @Collusion? Do you have the OG S400 still? Anything else you’re comparing to?
    Apr 21, 2022
  12. Collusion
    Collusion
    @rlow I had Raal HSA-1b, Rotel RA-1520 and Simaudio Moon 250i for amplifiers. HSA-1b was the best and Rotel the worst in terms of graininess, but it was certainly present with all of them. DAC was Soekris 2541 and source Qobuz via Bluesound Node 2i.

    I am now listening to a pair of ATC SCM 19 v2's and In terms of smoothness I'd put the three speakers in the following order:
    S400 (OG) > SCM19v2 >> S400mk2
    Apr 21, 2022
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