Br03

[Lotte Donohoe]

Everythingjust clicked with me when I finally tried with the NAD316 where the dynamic depth (plese tell me the correct term for having multiple instruments at different volumes) just blew me away where it felt like I was listening to my audio technica headphones but in speaker form.

Details for days while being laid back without detracting from the pounding synth bass texture or the vocal texture of grow, male, female and operatic vocals. Males it very good for Jcore and modem Metal with good compression and lots of detail and low volume infomation being presented in a very convincing way.

Which brings me to the downside where its very DAC transparent. Running with my phone, the DX300, shanling UA2 dongle and UP4 bt module the differences are very apperent. As such I found that you can tweek the sound quite a fair bit via your dac. With my favorite being the DX300 due to the laid back airy highly detailed sig having high synergy with the highly energetic NDA316 and the highly textured BR03 to make a neutural drug like highly detailed experence.

As such the BR03 are very source dependent at lest compared to the JBL studio 530 which always have a lack of air warmer tone and the klipsch m51 which has a hyperagrassive one note bass super forward presentation.

Ok I have about 1 week of use for the br03 and I can say they are breaking in nicely. Was a tad disapointed when I first set it up as the dynamics I heard in the store just wasnt there. Interestingly it seems that the treble takes longer to open up then the mid/bass. So there was a couple of days of incoherency where the woofer was more dynamic and faster than the tweeter. Everything seems to have settled down now with about 40hrs of break in.

What I find scary is that in my room the bass goes low enough that I can feel the subbass shaking the air around me. Very different from the store demo where it needed a sub woofer to get the same effect.

Also I donno if its sympathetic response but the BR03 sounds very similar to the AWKT to the point where the only difference is the cleaner imaging and slightly warmer sound on the AWKT compared to the BR03 on my gear. Is this what they mean by transparent?

I understand endgame is a state of mind but for whatever reason I want to upgrade but I cant seem to find something with similar voicing as the BR03 but with better control. Had the cometes for awhile but besides the sightly refined high end the low mids to bass doesnt have the texture/microdetail that the BR03 has and eventually flipped them. Not sure where to go from here.

Also recently got the musical paradise mp301 and its really nice and flatish(?). Doesnt sound like the usual tube amp that makes vocals kind of bloated and also the transients draggy. Very nice pairing.

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