Poor vorlich – sounds as-if he’s building kit speakers whether he likes it or not!
WRT bass quality:
In this case the extended frequencies are more coloured, the signal is “boxy”, but because it’s a deeper note, it’s a bit unusual to use that term to describe it. Basically the 109’s sound a bit more stuck to one note in the bass dept, and you can hear they go deeper – but presumably it at the cost of some distortion of the signal due to the boxes’ resonance.
As I said in another thread, they’re currently hooked up to a few thousand quids-worth of front end at my mates flat, which is interesting.
Was listening to classical yesterday,through the Technics/Sony combo – just not as involving. It sounds nice, but just doesn’t capture your attention or sound so involving- no idea how to quantify that.
He also lent me a £150 and a £50 pair of interconnects [VdH and Audioquest] and I am REALLY curious to hear if there is any difference… I am not going to look up their supposed sonic characteristics – just see if we can hear them ourselves first.