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Wow what a rich, flowing sound, a magic combo of DAC, amp and speakers, quite possibly the best yet I’ve heard on your channel. Love the beautiful wood veneer on this version too.
Sounds great! As others have said, I really enjoy your choice of music. I played "Outro" by Ania Leon and Igor Herbut in Tidal and then was treated to a wonderful Tidal-created mix of many other modern Polish artists, all unknown to me and singing in Polish. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your feedback. That just gave me an idea to record a video with some amazing Polish music, since there are some very very amazing Polish tracks that I listen to here and they sound stunning :)
First I want to thank you for the audition of these beautiful looking, and sounding polish speakers. I A/ B check the music titels you choose A - with my very good headphone gear and - B with my Magnepan 1.7i System in my living room. To speak freely short and clear : there is no need to change my panels at all. 🎉By the way the music you choose is very beautiful and pointing for a good taste.👍
Love this, fantastic selection of artists and music. I really enjoy these types of vlogs as it introduces me to music that I otherwise would never have heard of, and your taste is right up my street. Great stuff.😁
Hey friend. Are you actually playing the system that you have there on display, or are you just playing some HD tracks directly through youtube? Honestly, I can't tell. Sounds incredible. I've had my eye on those speakers for quite awhile now, and I find them to be extremely interesting.
Many thanks for the video espescially involving Norma Revo IPA-140b integrated amp. Good carefully chosen audiophile songs. Is there any chance to see how system copes with instrumental music such a orchestras, Classic music, Arabian and Middle Eastern Music, or a live Deep Purple concert...? Dzienkuje..😊🎸
Can I ask what settings are you using in HQ Player? (Other that DSD 512) GREAT Video's you have been making thank you so much. I would love to see these in person and listen. Gonig to CEDIA in Denver, Colorado. September 4, 2024 Hopefully you will be Gong! These sound amazing. HQ Player has so many settings, you could make a video based on your favorites! Thanks again and keep them coming. I am seriously thinking about buying these but would love to hear in person.
Thanks for sharing your comment. I am building my Power strip for 6 months now and still cant finish it ;) So I'm using a standard market 20$ one with Schuko sockets. But I also have 2000Watts EI Separation Transformer. I'll do a video on that as well ;)
I'll share everything in the upcoming videos, but to sum it up its Upgrades in the Ultra version: Internal cabling - Mundorf Angelique Copper-Silver-Gold cables ISOACOUSTICS Gaia 2 - footers included in the price 220uf Bass unit capacitor replaced from Electrolytic to Evo Oil All crossover coils are now Jantzen Copper Ribbon Wax Additional pair of terminals allowing for Bi-Amping
Awesome selection of tunes. ❤ , more aggressive top end than im used to in your videos , more immediate sound but a touch pushed in the high frequencies .
sounds amazing as always. goes to show that you don't need to spend stupid amount of money (like 10s of thousands of $$$$$) to get a great sounding speakers. this set up is just simple. a solid state integrated amp . (no bi-amping like you did in your last video). i wonder what's your preference now with the IQ Ultra in regards of using only a solid state amp or bi-amping with both solid state and tube amp?. thanks for uploading. great demo. .
Very highly regarded equipment for sure. Might I suggest that the speaker's fidelity might improve if they were moved out further into the room? That the rack in between the speakers is negatively affecting the depth of the soundfield? That the haphazard jumble of cables is negatively affecting the fidelity? Finally, isolation from vibrations seems absent and no obvious means of a clean AC supply... Otherwise, good luck on your journey.
Given that he is the designer of some very well received speakers, that the sound quality of his youtube videos is outstanding, and even his tastes in music, I'd wager that he is well versed in quality sound and has his system set up exactly how he wants it.
Not replacing, but they are both just different beasts ;) for the money the Alive is amazing and better in some regards and worse in others. I'll put on the video about that next week ;)
For years I have noticed the difference in the sound when played via Firefox or a Chrome-based browser. Never before has the difference been so much. It sounds fuller, more bass, less treble, more realistic with Firefox. With Chrome it's too airy, spatial, a little unreal. I have double-checked it with the 4K / AAC 192kbps videos that I upload to my YT channel as: Ben Webster - King Of The Tenors (1954) Vinyl, mono, Verve 1981, Japan.
Mmmhhh, why sampling into DSD with HQ Player? The LAIV Harmony has only PCM capability. Thus the DAC has to convert the DSD source into PCM before processing 🤔 Or am I wrong and the LAIV is DSD capable? Greets to Poland 🔥🐹🔥
You're correct, the LAiV Harmony internally converts DSD to PCM since its R2R DAC handles PCM only. I was also going to question any benefit of upsampling DSD with this DAC.
Hi guys I did some tests and for some reason the DSD 512 feed to LAiV instead of 705.6 PCM Sounds better to me. Not sure why, but the DSD even though resampled to PCS by LAiV tend to keep the DSD character and is more organic than the PCM. I know it's kind of wierd but as they say if it's stupid but it works it ain't stupid 😜
@@VirtualHiFiinteresting maybe the laiv is doing some DoP which would work great? But better than directly pcm it’s still strange. Maybe also the up sampling method your using for dsd sounds better to you than the one you use for pcm. Really don’t know 🤔
Is the single-ended output and balanced output of the LaiV dac identical in sound quality? I would be using the single ended, but many balanced dacs have a gimped se
the balanced gives a bit more punch and I was using it for this video, but the RCA is kot a slacker although one have to make it louder to compensate for lower signal level of the RCA
@@VirtualHiFi Talking about RCA, any chance you get the new Fezz Equinox in house in the near future ? I don't think you have a reviewed a tube DAC yet ? That could be a very interesting fight against the LAIV (and your reference) while it's still around. Edit: Nevermind, i just remembered you did Lampi Amber. 😅
Zdecydowanie. To pierwszy wzmacniacz jaki słyszałem od roku gdy zaczełem się bawić TPA3255, który że tak powiem jest warty różnicy w cenie. Ale jeszcze wiecej poslucham, nagram recenzję i zobaczymy jak się to wszystko potoczy :)
can you please talk about equalizer i know that equalizer is a bad word in most audiophiles ears. but if one need/must use a equalizer how would one do it best in terms of sound quality? from a app ? from a real equalizer ? (produkt link?) i want to make a u-shape respons in my setup. thanks
What is your source ? If streaming try a Viim pro. Got both EQ and room correction this days. Ultra version is supposedly very good as long as you don't use apple music
Previously I was using the DAC2 in my Mcintosh c2700. Still happy with the Laiv dac. I can now understand words now in certain song lyrics that I couldn’t understand before. It’s also very analog sounding, very detailed, non-fatiguing. Less than perfect recordings still sound very good but really good recordings sound awesome with this DAC.
DSD isn't capable of true high end analogue quality sound in digital recording . The best high end recording studios all over the world don't even record digitally in DSD . The best high end record studios in the world , record still in PCM . DSD has poor inbuilt high noise distortions that you cannot get away from , and is no way the best way recording analogue sound in digital .
Quite frankly, I’m not impressed! Too much detail and a lack of balance between frequencies, are my first impressions. Expectancies about this DAC have been probably exaggerated. Honestly, what I expect from any new DAC it is everything what most dacs on the market do, but in addition make digital sound closer to analog as much as possible. Qualio speakers always sound amazing. Can be the integrated amplifier!? I’ve listening some of your comparisons and I’m not finding gold on this configuration.
As a matter of interest, genuine question, can you point me to a YT recording of a DAC - amp - speaker combo that sounds better to your ear. Just a few keywords will do the trick, Links get blocked I think.
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Wow what a rich, flowing sound, a magic combo of DAC, amp and speakers, quite possibly the best yet I’ve heard on your channel. Love the beautiful wood veneer on this version too.
“Falling out of love” is one of my all time favorites
I like your videos and thanks for telling us the artists. What great music samples. Thanks for your work. Michael from Germany
Thank you for sharing your feedback Michael :)
Another great demo of these amazing speakers. Setup is also excellent !
love the music played.
Thank you so much ;)
Absolutely stunning
Thank you so much!
Sounds great! As others have said, I really enjoy your choice of music. I played "Outro" by Ania Leon and Igor Herbut in Tidal and then was treated to a wonderful Tidal-created mix of many other modern Polish artists, all unknown to me and singing in Polish. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your feedback. That just gave me an idea to record a video with some amazing Polish music, since there are some very very amazing Polish tracks that I listen to here and they sound stunning :)
@@VirtualHiFi I look forward to that!
Oh sh*t this sounds absolutely stunning, good job
This brand is my favourite amid the whole expensive floor standing speakers in the world, and I am not joking.
Thank you very much :)
I really don't think they are expensive, a relative bargain, I would say.
@@marklydon435 Thank you for sharing your opinion and I second it with all my heart ;)
Great sound and great music!!!
Thank you very much :)
First I want to thank you for the audition of these beautiful looking, and sounding polish speakers. I A/ B check the music titels you choose A - with my very good headphone gear and - B with my Magnepan 1.7i System in my living room. To speak freely short and clear : there is no need to change my panels at all. 🎉By the way the music you choose is very beautiful and pointing for a good taste.👍
Wonderful sound even through Tube 👍
The last DAC I want to compare with Weiss DAC 204, Holo Spring 3 and Laiv is the Ferrum Wandla DAC and I'll finally decide for one of them.
@@donnywidodo8874 Comparing Weiss DAC 204 vs Ferrum Wandla side by side
I went for Wandla Goldensound with Hypsos power supply. But more money but easily beats 10k dacs
These are amazing speakers. I’ve had mine for 4 months now and they are with adg amps
Thank you Neil for sharing your comment. I saw your email and I'll get back to you tomorrow :)
👍
Preamp AGD too?
@@fredhadley739
My preamp is rouge rp9
Rouge audio rp 9
Grzegorz is a genius.....he did it again. Cube and now those speakers...Bigger than Lewandowsky
I have these speakers on order replacing my long time main pair Quad 63's. Can't wait.
Love this, fantastic selection of artists and music.
I really enjoy these types of vlogs as it introduces me to music that I otherwise would never have heard of, and your taste is right up my street.
Great stuff.😁
That liav Dac is really nice
Indeed its amazing for the price
@@VirtualHiFi - how does it compare to the mola mola
Money is the problem my friend ❤thanks again
Thank you 👍😊
Nice presentation and set-up 🍺 👍 🔈 🔊..... !
great setup and music!
Thank you :)
Hey friend. Are you actually playing the system that you have there on display, or are you just playing some HD tracks directly through youtube? Honestly, I can't tell. Sounds incredible. I've had my eye on those speakers for quite awhile now, and I find them to be extremely interesting.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
Those are great music choices. Most were new to me. I especially liked "Queen Mary". Thanks.
Thank you for sharin g your feedback. Yes Queen Mary is awesome :)
This speaker sounds very warm and present richy... i like this... for me a bit to much. but very nice speakers
Great sound,
What do you feel is contributing the most to the meatiness in it? and in general, the amp or the DAC are doing a better job?
Both are very organic and analogue so I have to say that their meatiness combine and create a stunning sound :)
Many thanks for the video espescially involving Norma Revo IPA-140b integrated amp. Good carefully chosen audiophile songs. Is there any chance to see how system copes with instrumental music such a orchestras, Classic music, Arabian and Middle Eastern Music, or a live Deep Purple concert...? Dzienkuje..😊🎸
Beautiful sound and great soundstage. I’m in between LAiV & Cyan 2. Any recommendations. 😊
Get both, compare em, share your findings and return the one you like less! 😊
Can I ask what settings are you using in HQ Player? (Other that DSD 512) GREAT Video's you have been making thank you so much. I would love to see these in person and listen. Gonig to CEDIA in Denver, Colorado. September 4, 2024 Hopefully you will be Gong! These sound amazing. HQ Player has so many settings, you could make a video based on your favorites! Thanks again and keep them coming. I am seriously thinking about buying these but would love to hear in person.
May I ask why the woofer is not open baffle? Aren’t the low frequencies most affected by coloration in box setup?
May I ask which drivers are used in the top unit?
Nice tast of music! Are you jusing a sort of powercondioner, or just a powerblock with or without filtering?
Thanks for sharing your comment. I am building my Power strip for 6 months now and still cant finish it ;) So I'm using a standard market 20$ one with Schuko sockets. But I also have 2000Watts EI Separation Transformer. I'll do a video on that as well ;)
Great sounding system. What’s the rack’s name?
What is your impression of the LiVE Harmony DAC? Your video is playing over a Denafrips Pontus II. lol
🤓 JUST WOW ... NO MORE TO SAY !!!
Thank you 😅
Incredible sound... Are these speaker dynamic enough for high level movie watching? (with subwoofer of course)
With ease even without the sub ;) I like to listen loud and I do Push them to the limit ;)
I've had my Qualio IQs (not Ultra) for two days and I can attest that they are great for watching movies.... without the need for a subwoofer.
Thank You and Congratulations 🎉
Great sounding setup indeed. Please, let us know more details about the IQ Ultra. Thanks for sharing. 🔈🎶
I'll share everything in the upcoming videos, but to sum it up its
Upgrades in the Ultra version:
Internal cabling - Mundorf Angelique Copper-Silver-Gold cables
ISOACOUSTICS Gaia 2 - footers included in the price
220uf Bass unit capacitor replaced from Electrolytic to Evo Oil
All crossover coils are now Jantzen Copper Ribbon Wax
Additional pair of terminals allowing for Bi-Amping
Wow…someday ❤👍🏼
thanks for sharing :)
Awesome selection of tunes. ❤ , more aggressive top end than im used to in your videos , more immediate sound but a touch pushed in the high frequencies .
Thanks for sharing your feedback. I'll try to share some great music that I discover with you guys regularly :)
Can you please do a sound demo w the FOSI monoblocks and the LAIV DAC?
Would be great. Then people could stop the ridiculous overhyping of the V3....
sounds amazing as always. goes to show that you don't need to spend stupid amount of money (like 10s of thousands of $$$$$) to get a great sounding speakers.
this set up is just simple. a solid state integrated amp . (no bi-amping like you did in your last video). i wonder what's your preference now with the IQ Ultra in regards of using only a solid state amp or bi-amping with both solid state and tube amp?.
thanks for uploading. great demo. .
This amplifier is a dual mono construction so it's bi-amping, two mono amplifiers in one box.
@@tofffsymagic1099 thank you for your reply. TBH, i don't know anything about Norma audio Brand . it's the first time i hear about it in this video..
Very highly regarded equipment for sure. Might I suggest that the speaker's fidelity might improve if they were moved out further into the room? That the rack in between the speakers is negatively affecting the depth of the soundfield? That the haphazard jumble of cables is negatively affecting the fidelity? Finally, isolation from vibrations seems absent and no obvious means of a clean AC supply...
Otherwise, good luck on your journey.
Given that he is the designer of some very well received speakers, that the sound quality of his youtube videos is outstanding, and even his tastes in music, I'd wager that he is well versed in quality sound and has his system set up exactly how he wants it.
@@davidgifford4355 Ah, 'the appeal to authority' fallacy... the default position when unable to address the substance of a prior comment.
@@geoffreydebrito2653 arrogance eh
@@TrueAudio Brilliant critique!
Sounds awesome.. is the live dac replacing your T+A dac?
Not replacing, but they are both just different beasts ;) for the money the Alive is amazing and better in some regards and worse in others. I'll put on the video about that next week ;)
For years I have noticed the difference in the sound when played via Firefox or a Chrome-based browser. Never before has the difference been so much. It sounds fuller, more bass, less treble, more realistic with Firefox. With Chrome it's too airy, spatial, a little unreal.
I have double-checked it with the 4K / AAC 192kbps videos that I upload to my YT channel as: Ben Webster - King Of The Tenors (1954) Vinyl, mono, Verve 1981, Japan.
No bi amping here then. They sound amazing Greg, can't wait to receive mine :-).
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your comment. Your IQ Ultra and being made and we will ship them soon ;) Thank you for being an early adopter ;)
Mmmhhh, why sampling into DSD with HQ Player? The LAIV Harmony has only PCM capability. Thus the DAC has to convert the DSD source into PCM before processing 🤔
Or am I wrong and the LAIV is DSD capable?
Greets to Poland 🔥🐹🔥
You're correct, the LAiV Harmony internally converts DSD to PCM since its R2R DAC handles PCM only. I was also going to question any benefit of upsampling DSD with this DAC.
Agree I would upsample in pcm instead
Hi guys I did some tests and for some reason the DSD 512 feed to LAiV instead of 705.6 PCM Sounds better to me. Not sure why, but the DSD even though resampled to PCS by LAiV tend to keep the DSD character and is more organic than the PCM. I know it's kind of wierd but as they say if it's stupid but it works it ain't stupid 😜
@@VirtualHiFiinteresting maybe the laiv is doing some DoP which would work great? But better than directly pcm it’s still strange. Maybe also the up sampling method your using for dsd sounds better to you than the one you use for pcm. Really don’t know 🤔
@@VirtualHiFi Interesting. I will do some of my own testing as like others I was thinking the same and only feed it PCM.
Wow 🤩
This is very good. I ll start saving my pennies to buy a pair.
Is the single-ended output and balanced output of the LaiV dac identical in sound quality? I would be using the single ended, but many balanced dacs have a gimped se
the balanced gives a bit more punch and I was using it for this video, but the RCA is kot a slacker although one have to make it louder to compensate for lower signal level of the RCA
@@VirtualHiFi Talking about RCA, any chance you get the new Fezz Equinox in house in the near future ? I don't think you have a reviewed a tube DAC yet ? That could be a very interesting fight against the LAIV (and your reference) while it's still around.
Edit: Nevermind, i just remembered you did Lampi Amber. 😅
с чего начать менять aventage или колонки
speakers (always start with speakers)
let us know more about the parallel op amp hack (za3) thanks
Surely I will :)
Czy ta Norma jest ciekawsza brzmieniowo od SN 3 którego miałeś?
Zdecydowanie. To pierwszy wzmacniacz jaki słyszałem od roku gdy zaczełem się bawić TPA3255, który że tak powiem jest warty różnicy w cenie. Ale jeszcze wiecej poslucham, nagram recenzję i zobaczymy jak się to wszystko potoczy :)
can you please talk about equalizer
i know that equalizer is a bad word in most audiophiles ears. but if one need/must use a equalizer how would one do it best in terms of sound quality? from a app ? from a real equalizer ? (produkt link?)
i want to make a u-shape respons in my setup. thanks
What is your source ? If streaming try a Viim pro. Got both EQ and room correction this days. Ultra version is supposedly very good as long as you don't use apple music
Impressive
Thank you ;)
I’m really happy with my LAiV dac. Prefer NOS mode so far.
Can you tell us what was your previous DAC?
Do you use the Laiv in NOS or OS mode?
Still happy with it?
Thanks
Previously I was using the DAC2 in my Mcintosh c2700. Still happy with the Laiv dac. I can now understand words now in certain song lyrics
that I couldn’t understand before. It’s also very analog sounding, very detailed, non-fatiguing. Less than perfect recordings still sound very good but really good recordings sound awesome with this DAC.
DSD isn't capable of true high end analogue quality sound in digital recording . The best high end recording studios all over the world don't even record digitally in DSD . The best high end record studios in the world , record still in PCM . DSD has poor inbuilt high noise distortions that you cannot get away from , and is no way the best way recording analogue sound in digital .
Хороший звук, но самые высокие завуалированны.
Quite frankly, I’m not impressed!
Too much detail and a lack of balance between frequencies, are my first impressions.
Expectancies about this DAC have been probably exaggerated.
Honestly, what I expect from any new DAC it is everything what most dacs on the market do, but in addition make digital sound closer to analog as much as possible.
Qualio speakers always sound amazing. Can be the integrated amplifier!?
I’ve listening some of your comparisons and I’m not finding gold on this configuration.
As a matter of interest, genuine question, can you point me to a YT recording of a DAC - amp - speaker combo that sounds better to your ear. Just a few keywords will do the trick, Links get blocked I think.
Why can't normal music that people listen to be played in these demos? This stuff may sound "audiophile" but its awful music!
the music is garbage.