Congratulation for your Kagura.
In the last 15 years i had 2 Ongaku,2 Gakuon,Neiro Silver,Kageki and now 2 Souga.
My ideas was to buy new preamp G 1000 and sell my M7,but at the end i had a good opportunity to buy CH and i am very happy,so i have 2 system,one with CH and one with Kondo.
My dream is to buy M1 for low and mid and use my A1 in mono for tweeter,even if is stupid use only A 1 for tweeter,but their sound is so pure that i would like to try.
You have to listen P1 with X1,i tried in my home and in my friend home and sound is better in every parameter with X1,absolutely to buy in a second step.
I tried P1 against my GE1 with Silvercore MC pro trans.,but P1 was better in everything.
One question,if you have to choose to have only or Soulution or Kagura,which amp you will keep?
Ciao
Gianluigi
Hi Gianluigi,
Thank you for your response.
I've only had the Kaguras since June and have been listening to them almost exclusively so that I could reach the 300+ hour burn-in target.
So actually it's only been a little over a week that I plugged in the Soulution 701s since the summer; in part, in preparation for testing a number of different DACs and music players next week.
I am using a Kondo M1000 mkII as a preamp (with built in phono stage) but it doesn't match well with the 701s, so I am running my DACs (Pacific Microsonics Model 2, Phasure NOS1a, Meridian Ultra) directly into the 701s.
I have to tell you that the 701s and the Kaguras driving the Magico Q7s mkIIs are both very special. The sound during late evenings jumps into the realm of magic.
I've paid a lot of attention recently to lowering the noise in my system (Shunyata Denali power conditioner, Furutech NCF power cord connectors, outlets and wall plates, Entreq grounding boxes plus already previously installed dedicated lines and an electrical panel). This has transformed the sound from great sounding but with mechanical remnants to bordering on magical.
So to answer your question, I am just going to start comparing the 701s and the Kaguras as soon as the DAC comparisons are completed and my analog system (Kodo The Beat Turntable, Kobd SFz SUT, Kyra Atlas and Kondo IO carts) is optimized before the end of this month.
So that's a long winded response to your short question which I still haven't answered.
But it's like having to choose between Ferrari and Porsche, or Gibson and Fender, blondes or redheads, or digital and analog.
If you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose, more than likely my answer would be the Kaguras on the analog side, and the 701s on the digital side.
But I can tell you that it's a good thing I don't have to choose
