I am thus closing the Windom thread and starting two new threads: Windom: Sound Impressions Windom: Installation Problems The original all-purpose Windom thread is here . Please let me know if I can otherwise help.

Holy Cow folks…think I done got a Good Load!! EDIT: See top of thread

I have found the same experience. I love Snowmass, but found Windom’s vocals to be dry, losing 3 dimensionality. The background instruments were extremely focused but overpowered the voice. The sound stage too large, and emotionality was completely lost. I think that just like tube rolling, thes…

But it works. The signal path is shortened to a minimum.

@badbeef - I line-up with the musical versus analytical preference. Glad to hear you are enjoying that Senior-ita. Ultimately mine will be moving to one of two more revealing systems, and then I will experiment with Windom. Until then enjoy the music.

Sounds about right. Taking the engineered for iPhones compressed music that seems to be the new norm in the 2000’s, it’s difficult to make that sound good. Windom does seem to relax a bit of that hot mastering and make it more listenable. The old adage “you can’t shine a turd” still holds though.

“Holy Cow folks…think I done got a Good Load!!” haha, i was waiting for that to happen ! do you remember the ordering of your last 3 or 4 updates ?

The soundstage on this was very wide and deep with Snowmass. With Windom (54th install in my case, so I’m calling it Windom 54), the soundstage is out to my neighbors’ houses in all directions.[jpeg]

I used to bring a CD of that one to shows. Some nice-sounding tracks on it.

Well, I don’t yet know what to think. Adding another resistor to regulate my ribbon tweeters has lowered the treble output and as a result restored a lower mid-upper bass fullness I was missing, killing my two biggest complaints with the sound of Windom from the loads I’ve been getting. I snuck in a…

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