Set-up and music
Contents
Amplifier
Naim Nait XS2
Ricable Dedalus Mk1 speaker cable
Vinyl
Rega P6 with Ania MC cartridge
Graham Slee Reflex C phono stage
Chord Shawline RCA to DIN
CD
Audiolab 6000CDT
Art Speak SPDIF
Streaming
Apple MacBook Pro with Audirvāna Studio
Naim ND5XS
Power
Audes ST900 balanced power transformer
Essential Audio Tools cables
Used music
The music referenced in the review can be found in the pop/rock and classical playlists.
OK, although this is an older review, I would like to point out one thing, I think very important, which nobody is addressing. Apparently deliberately. It’s about measuring speaker distortion.
Why do we have at home amplifiers with 0.1 or 0.01 distortions and further electronic devices with similar parameters, when our speakers can have distortions even above 10%.
That’s probably why nobody measure speakers, because the manufacturers would be obviously very angry to the editor or the journalist…
Surely there is some norm for measuring loudspeaker distortion, almost certainly the DIN standard knows such measurements, but maybe there are also other norms.
Wouldn’t it be worth to show the truth to the readers?
I have found so far distortion measurement of the loudspeakers I own. It’s the DALI Menuet SE and here are the values : 63 Hz – 3,2%, 3 KHZ – 0,2% and 10 KHz – 0,2%