Very happy with the T11 by Rotel. Very easy to connect to the Rotel Amp and tune into the various FM and Dab + stations we can pick up on the Gold Coast. I have been listening to it everyday day since I got it. Great service from Living Entertainment.
The Sort Kones are doing a marvellous job in my system. The biggest thing they’ve brought to performance is a big drop in the noise floor, exposing a great deal of previously hidden low level details; the decay of a cymbal or guitar pluck, natural ambience in live recordings, better depth of stage, and improved surface textures. It sounds like a cliche, but I’m now getting much more of the performance my electronics are actually capable of.
These Meze 105 AER are the first set of headphones, since I bought my HD 650 over 10 years ago, that I've bought blind which didn't leave me feeling regret over money wasted. Great set of cans.
Great cable, good quality and easy to work with. Works beautifully for bi-wiring my B&W floor standers. Great service from LEN, shipped quickly and well packaged.
Works great on dirty records, replace it when it gets REALLY slimy (sticks to hands). lasted approx 5 months for me. Not game to try it on my $550 stylus :)
Loved the impact these cables made on my system. They pair really well with my audiolab 7000A amp and Buchardt 300 speakers bringing noticeable improvements to clarity and definition. Living Entertainment were also great in service and support. Really excellent communication.
This is my second one of these to go into my system,nice improvement better sound in all areas, sound stage and overall sound quality.
Super quick delivery
Thanks
We wanted to give our planar 1 a little present so ordered a nice red slip mat, not cheap but when it arrived the quality was far superior to the standard black one that the system came with.
it looks great under translucent vinyl too!!
The store was great and informed me it was going to be a little late due to shipping issues, which wasn't a problem, but i really appreciated the communication from them.
Changing speakers unauditioned is a treacherous thing, especially when you were quite fond of the speakers you already had (Dali Sensor 3) and the break-in period on the replacement speakers is, unsurprisingly but still somewhat disappointingly, underwhelming.
Fast forward two weeks and my trepidation has mostly settled. The Fyne F302i's clarity was undoubtedly better from the get-go, but the soundstage and bass response took a while to come in and have now achieved respectable levels.
There are certain charms (deceits?) of the Zensor 3 that the Fyne seems unlikely to replicate, but given high quality source material they're capable of superior clarity and composure.
I've probably sacrificed a smidgen of overall bass response (which may continue to develop with more run-in time), which seems surprising going from a bookshelf to floorstander, but the Zensor 3 is probably an atypical bookshelf and the Fyne F302i a modest floorstander.
All in all I am happy with the upgrade, and hopefully the speakers will continue to develop a little more with further run-in time.
First of all, delivery was very quick (as expected).
Decided to upgrade my 2M red (Project Carbon Evo).
Did hear a noticeable improvement in sound quality.
Definitely worth a try!
I am a big Meze fan. I purchased the Rai Penta IEM when it was first released and I now have the Liric 2 and Elite headphones and the Manta headphone stand. The MMCX removal tool is far superior to the generic yellow tool which I have used (and broken). A great accessory.
I'm extremely happy with the sound on this stylus, It definitely enhances my my music from the old conical stylus. Thank you Living Entertainment for great service at a great price.
Fast delivery even to my rural location.
Shop staff very fast in answering a few questions I had.
Speakers are awesome
I bought this following the reviews and was hoping it lived up to the hype but didnt expect it would change the quality of the sound that much. The soundscape got so much clearer and wide, as well as a tightening of the bass frequencies. Every instrument can be heard in exactly the spot in the stereo mix it was intended to be. Paired with the aluminium sub platter which I bought a month ago, it’s created a much more pleasurable listening experience with greater control and clarity. Now to upgrade my towers!
Paired with the Orotofon Bronze, Arcam A15 and some old Polk towers.
No hum, issue. Zero resonance from the motor or speaker. Great vid from Nat at Living Entertainment on how to set it up. Records sound so clear and so much better, just on the provided Ortifon 2M red cartridge! Looks good with dark brown / walnut speakers in the “Satin steel blue” colour
So mich power, pass, mid range, high range, Nd clarity. Also affordable, and look so good in walnut with a navy turntable!
I had got to the stage where I wasn’t listening to much music because of some niggling dissatisfaction.
This led me to make a few upgrades to my Electrocompaniet based system. First was a Musical Fidelity DAC.
The biggest upgrade was in the form of Focal Sopra No2 speakers. Wow! I connected them with Purist Audio Design Musaeus speaker cables. LPs, CDs and SACDs were now fantastic and I was beginning to go through my old collection.
Finally, I decided to changed an old Cambridge Audio CXN streamer for Auralic’s Aries G2.2 for the radio and the streaming services Tidal Qobuz and Idagio. A lot of change over 3-4 months.
So how does the Aries G2.2 go in all this. Very well, very well indeed. If you want to know more then read on. These are just my personal first impressions after 120 hours burn in.
The Good:
It’s heavy. If weight is quality then this is quality. Well made, good looking with a large screen.
Well packaged and comes with white gloves to handle your new toy. A good manual to learn how to use it.
The sound.
I play in bands and orchestras so I know what live music should sound like and that is my hi-fi goal, I want absolute realism. My comments refer to well recorded and mastered material.
The Aries G2.2 is highly resolving, detailed, but not sterile or clinical sounding. It is organic and natural. Instrument timbres are as close to live as you can get. Solo cello is there in the room as if it was live. There is air and transparency aplenty. Subtle harmonics are there in spades. I had been struggling to work out what the bass instrument was at the beginning of “Tank” from the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. Now I can hear it is an acoustic bass guitar with phosphor bronze strings played with a pick.
The quality between different human voices is clear even in dense harmonies, a bass clarinet sounds much different to a baritone sax. A well recorded jazz track is astonishing.
Soundstage is excellent. Depth and width are in abundance. Every instrument or voice is in its own place, beyond the edges of the speakers and from front to back. Each instrument has a beginning and an ending with natural decay. To appreciate this listen to the whole album “Set” by Youssou N’Dour. There is space around all instruments and voices. Marcus King Band albums are glorious.
Dynamics are amazing. Classical music seems to have even greater difference from pianissimo to fortissimo than before.
One thing I was surprised at was the dynamics that contemporary music demonstrated. We get used to listening to compressed recordings, but I was really struck by the way the compression seems to have been completely taken away. Listen to Marcus Miller playing “Trip Trap”. The sound grows and grows without any obvious limit. The same with “Partition” by Beyoncé. The sound builds and builds effortlessly. There is no apparent ceiling to the dynamics. And in that building sound Beyoncé’s voice never gets lost in the instrumentation. Real energy.
Drums are now very believable, the snap of the snare, the movement of air by the bass drum, the tap of wood on crash, ride or hi-hat or rim shot.
Treble is brilliant, sparkling and extended. The piccolo is as piercing as it should be, yet sweet and entirely natural.
Mid range is brilliant, believable and balanced. Instruments and voices are rendered extremely naturally. And there is real energy.
Bass is detailed, tight and very extended. Bass instruments are clearly defined. Bass guitar is clearly differentiated from kick drum and synth bass. The bass pressurises the room without being bloated or overpowering. Some recordings, particularly rock and metal in the 80’s seem to have recessed bass, particularly kick drum. “Skyscraper” by Dave Lee Roth is now balanced and powerful. You can feel it in your body, as you should.
The Bad:
There is no remote control. This is a separate purchase.
The Auralic Lightning DS app on iOS and iPad is ok. There is Tidal and Qobuz, an internet radio channel vTuner that I find is very poor. There is also TuneIn radio which is ok but not the easiest to navigate. All the reviews praise the Lightning DS app, but compared to Cambridge Audio’s StreamMagic it really is second rate. Occasionally the app has lost touch with the Aries and I have had to reboot both phone and Aries to reestablish connection. I have not used the iPad much, but I feel this may be a better experience.
The screen is clear, but does not give as much info as the CXN it replaced.
Because of the app and the poor internet radio usability on the app I would drop a five star review to 4.5. The sound is 6 out of 5!
Having said all that, the bottom line is that I am now playing more music, going through as many play lists that I can, seeking out old and new music and really, really enjoying everything I hear. Just astonishing how much fun I am having.
The Auralic Aries G2.2 rocks every musical genre and I wo...
Thank you so much to Nat and LENC, for a great purchasing experience, quality advice and overall all the heart and soul given to me in support of my purchase - THANK YOU.
In today's electronic / online shopping era - it was a refreshing purchase - one I was looking forward to make, and it did not disappoint.
Beautiful system, and all I could hope for.
Nat has been there for me and I am looking forward to buying more from Living Entertainment.
10 stars from me if I could give that.
Fast efficient delivery from Lenc. Easy little device to set up with very good sound for the price in an Ampster/Dali Spector combo. Wi-fi connection worked well at first but the distance to the other end of the house proved too much for it the next day despite the FTTP and a new router. I've substituted an ethernet connection now which works better than Chromecast.
Very impressed with this store. After enquiring about a system and talking with Nate, i decided to buy. Just goes to show that a good communicator, ready to talk to any potential customer will pay off. I’ll definitely use this business again.
