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“The Seven Mk.II’s excellent low-frequency extension could be appreciated not only with pipe-organ recordings—such as my as-yet-unreleased recording of Jonas Nordwall performing the Toccata of Widor’s Organ Symphony 5 in Portland’s First United Methodist Church (24/88.2 AIFF)—but also with the awesome synth bass line of “Royals,” from Lorde’s Pure Heroine (Republic/Tidal stream). Some years ago, I recorded erstwhile Stereophile staffer Ariel Bitran’s band; in the mixes of those songs, I tried to re-create the low-frequency magnificence of live rock. The Vandersteen system was sufficiently transparent in the bass that I could readily hear how the dCS Vivaldi kept the intentionally phat bass-guitar lines better differentiated from the kick drum than did the PS Audio DirectStream DAC, especially when the bassist drops an octave at the start of a phrase.”

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