Well, we've had the Cyrus for nearly three weeks now, and love it! Every day we'll rediscover some piece of music anew, finding details we'd not really noticed before. I was pretty happy with the Arcams, but the Cyrus is something else... I remember the wonderful change in quality when we added the 290P and bi-amped the speakers; well, this is the same again.
It's not all roses: some older recordings and even some 2000s-era remasters aren't scaling up to the same degree, and suffer by comparison. The mid-2000s reissue of Depeche Mode's Songs of Faith and Devotion now sounds quite muddy next to something like I Am Kloot's Sky At Night (which we were surprised to rediscover was actually mp3, albeit high-bitrate). I think I prefer the Transporter's DAC over the Cyrus Qx; but it's a little hard to be certain, as the Transporter's audio feed is decidedly louder than the Qx. It's possible to tune the amp's sensitivity for each input, but I haven't got round to balancing them all yet. The Qx is still useful for some of the other inputs (especially our Virgin Media V+ box, which only has an optical output), and I wonder how SACDs will sound from our Blu-Ray player (though it wasn't bought with that in mind so I'm not expecting too much). The main problem I'm having now is that it's difficult to listen to music quietly - both in the sense that it feels like a waste, and in that transients can be surprisingly loud. So now I'm wondering about getting a decent set of headphones for late-night listening... -- Brian -- Brian Ritchie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Ritchie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2319 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90915 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
