I have been listening for more then one year my aksa55n and finally I decided to build a 100N.
I had not real neccessity to do it but let's say the curiosity or better the pleasure to assembly again an Aksa Kit and finally a request of a friend of mine working in a testing lab of an hifi Italian magazine convinced me to do it.
I reached a very good system adjusting all the elements: cable, speaker, environment, positioning, ...
Then I brought the aksa55n for the tests in Suono magazine laboratories.
I was surprised there when I met the technician and he said me that all instruments test was one of the best he had never seen.
Then I received all the impression of the persons who attended to the listening test. The system was compared with some more than 10.000$ McIntosh and with a Treeshold of about 4.000$.
Well the result was that the aksa could play better than the McIntosh and at the same level of the Treeshold.
The only critics was made on the bass quantity. Italian house are often in old buildings with very large (absorbing) walls and room wery full of everything, so that the level of bass quantity I think is sometime more then let'say in US or other place were the construction elements are different .
This was the last item to convince me in starting the 100N work.
The first impression I have after a week of listening is that bass are really more powerfull (so that Italian requirements are securely reached
), but also dynamics is different, surely more fast. Finally I listen a little difference in the clarity and ariosity of instruments in high frequencies.
The initial impression in listening is very fascinanting and the difference with the Aksa 55n is evident... not only the power
.
I am listening today since 5 hours and I am not yet tired, nor I feel the necessity to plug back the 55w.
Systems used:
Rega Planar 3 with Elys
CD Marantz professional PMD320
DAC Audiokit DAC2
Interconnect cable Piano 6
Pre Aksa Gk1 (phono option)
Aksa 100N
Aksa 55N
Speaker B&W DM 603 S2
Cable Triple TNT
Renzo
