Boy oh Boy, after more than a year of reading and thinking I decided to go for the G4 version of my beloved K50 G1. What a Super Surprise, right out of the box (It did take 2,5 weeks between The Netherlands and New Zealand and vice versa) it did plays amazing. I’m not a reviewer and describing what I do hear is difficult for me (and English is not my mother language).
What I do experience is INVOLVEMENT (betrokkenheid).
Every track/recording (Flac-0 on internal 24TB SSD) brings me deeper, higher, lower and wider into the stage and the performance. Fantastic highs and Lows. A magnific articulation of the singing voices. Details without extracting it from the performance, a flow of natural sounds.
Foot tapping and Happiness all the way, older and newer recordings (Rock Blues Jazz).
Still, it is the magic of the K50 mk1 that is increased and not by a few percent.
One of my friends (knows my setup very well) was totally flabbergasted with the new G4 version. This was not expected and I’m very content with the Result.
So if you think about the G4 step, this is the last month (august-24) to decide to do.
For my ears it is a fantastic jump forward in enjoying music at home.
Thanks both of them Mark’s and the people of Antipodes.
Robert
(Tidal Contriva G2, Ypsilon Aelius II, icOn 4PRO balanced, analog: pure silver (homemade), digital: Ansuz D2, EtherREGEN-Fiber)