Pictures of your portable rig

You mean the usb cable between the Cayin and Hugo 2 ? Its a silver dragon moon-audio micro Usb cable…

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Sorry for not being precise enough. No, the nice grey cable with the IEM’s. I have never seen that before.

Hah! Pw Audio 1950s :wink:

Well I have… but my brain have surpressed it due to the price :scream: :scream:
I hope it is a darn great cable!

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After buying few mid-class cable…I couldn’t resiste to the temptation… If it worth the money…(no) If this is the best pairing cable with my Ciem Legend X yes, no doubt.

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Sometimes we need to follow that urge and get something crazy, but fantastic. Great you did it :cowboy_hat_face: :+1:

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A couple of portable setups from back in the day, for nostalgia’s sake (both still work perfectly!):

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that’s awesome! I wish I still had my sony player :frowning:

You can still find them on eBay. Not sure they’re worth the money these days, though. Although mine still sounds really good - a bit warm, perhaps, but quite impressive for such a little, consumer device from 20+ years ago. I wish I could find out what the output impedance is.

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My portable rig this time last year.

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Its more for the nostalgia. I had the first Sony Mini Disc Player… :frowning:

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That’s a great rig - one that I’d like to save up for (depending, among other things, on how I get along with the Unique Melody MEST, if I can test-drive a pair before too long). And hurrah for Underworld! I very much enjoyed your 4-way shootout, btw. It was a good, fun read, and very informative and useful. Thank you!

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Anyone who loves Underworld as a friend of mine :slight_smile: The opening track on that album is probably my favorite work by them. And thank-you for the kind words!

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Sony DMP-Z1 and IER-Z1R is perfect match. Amazing details, yet never harsh. Very musical.

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Man I was really looking forward to hearing that combo at the meet last month…someday hopefully!

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That’s one of the prettiest amps made! If it sounds as good as it looks, it must be quite the experience.

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I never realised how big that thing is. Wow.

Looks amazing.

Yeah, will try to get Woo to come to Seattle again once this pandemic is over :blush: Will definitely bring this combo for people to hear

Yes. DMP-Z1 is amazing. It has enough power to drive Diana Phi. I have heard the Chord TT2 + MScaler stack next to DMP at CanJam SoCal last year and I prefer DMP. DMP is smooth, insanely smooth.

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Now that is a Dream comparison for me.

Love to try both of those side by side. I think for my tastes in sound the Chord stack would win. :wink:

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