Hestia and Hyperion r the choice for my Zu DW’s. Let ‘em run n, they gotta lot of caps; so for a good month. The pair is smooth, organic, open, dynamic and powerfully musical. The midrange is excellent. If you’ve played around with tube and ss amps for a while, you may find the Denafrips sound to provide that ‘just right’ sound. Organic and dynamic, with a wide soundstage and plenty of air the duo may give up a tad of resolution but easily resolves the quality of your music collection. They’ve an analog character in a good way, open and balanced, powerful and confident.
My sense is that the Kinki gear is voiced towards a faster, leaner sound.
A set of different listening priorities, the ‘you are there’ presentation that prioritizes detail retrieval and micro spatial cues along with tight fast transients.
If these two were coupling capacitors, the Denafrips house sound is Jupiter or Dueland copper foils, the Kinki is CuTf V-Cap built around speed and resolution. If you’ve familiar with the differences, you know one must be very careful when mixing them as it is easy to introduce anomalies in the frequency response, a hardness or sluggishness is introduced by often times a component mismatch or speaker selection. They may really both potentially be very good, but perhaps not together.
Horses 4 courses… (-;
My sense is that the Kinki gear is voiced towards a faster, leaner sound.
A set of different listening priorities, the ‘you are there’ presentation that prioritizes detail retrieval and micro spatial cues along with tight fast transients.
If these two were coupling capacitors, the Denafrips house sound is Jupiter or Dueland copper foils, the Kinki is CuTf V-Cap built around speed and resolution. If you’ve familiar with the differences, you know one must be very careful when mixing them as it is easy to introduce anomalies in the frequency response, a hardness or sluggishness is introduced by often times a component mismatch or speaker selection. They may really both potentially be very good, but perhaps not together.
Horses 4 courses… (-;