De set-up
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We’ve played with the Ambre at several locations. Both at home – privately we now run the Ambre – and at the office. At home we run via AES because we can’t (yet) miss the USB input in the Adagio. At the office we equipped the Pavane with the I2S module to complete the test.
The set at home consists of a Metrum Adagio with two AVM M30 monoblocks and a set of DALI Epicon 2. Cables come from Audioquest, Grimm (TPM) and Art Speak.
The set at the office consists of a Pass Labs XP-12, Metrum Pavane Level 2, Bryston 4B SST3 and a set of Focal Sopra No1. Cables come from Audioquest, Grimm (TPM), Art Speak and Kemp.
Hello Thomas,
Nice set-up and great to hear you like the Ambre. If a piece of equipment fits right into a set than that’s all you can ask for. Happy listening!
Greetings
Geoff
Hi Geoff, thank you very much and of course thank you for the beautiful report about the Ambre. Unfortunately, I did not know the company Metrum Acoustics before. Very interesting also that the MA DACs are used to cut vinyl, at least in the conversion of digital studio material. A nice weekend
The test convinced me and I ordered the Ambre to test it. I can’t use the better I2S connecter but maybe later. ROON runs on a MacBookPro M1 – USB C to Ethernet cable – MA Ambre – Grimm Audio TPR XLR AES cable – Backes & Müller BM ICE etc. Before that was ROON on the Mac M1 – USB cable – Mutec MC3+ USB – Grimm Audio TPR XLR – Backes & Müller BM ICE 525 etc. In my setup, the Ambre sounds very neutral with a somewhat restrained treble that fits perfectly with the linear frequency response. Very stable and precise stage in width and height. In the middle you would think there is an additional monitor! Very amazing at a good price. I don’t know if it could be done even better!?