Today I had the great opportunity to meet THE MAN behind the mad scientist mask in person. Due to various stars aligning I met Jon and his workmate for a few hour Ardent listening session. I came out of that with heightened motivation to start a build of my own once I get back to Estonia from the continuing US west coast tour.
I have the Minervas playing back at home, but I did feel the Ardents do have an even more clean midrange and highs. Which of course is to be expected from even higher level of speaker units but it is still another thing to get to hear that for real.
We did a very brief trial of the Soekris DAC that Jon had with him. That too seemed a very good value for the $ indeed.
I do thank both of my hosts for the great afternoon and an opportunity to listen to the original pair of these speakers.
I have the Minervas playing back at home, but I did feel the Ardents do have an even more clean midrange and highs. Which of course is to be expected from even higher level of speaker units but it is still another thing to get to hear that for real.
We did a very brief trial of the Soekris DAC that Jon had with him. That too seemed a very good value for the $ indeed.
I do thank both of my hosts for the great afternoon and an opportunity to listen to the original pair of these speakers.
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