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One of the things I’ve always loved about the VL10.1 is its ability to cast a wide, deep soundstage — it makes recordings that have preserved a credible soundstage sound gloriously superspacious. In this area, too, the Reference 1 didn’t disappoint — its soundstages were as wide and deep as the VL10.1’s — but it one-upped the VL10.1 in image specificity on those stages; its images being much more precisely delineated and holographic. When I played “Mining for Gold,” from the Cowboy Junkies’ The Trinity Session (16/44.1 FLAC, RCA), Margo Timmins’s voice hung with laser-like focus and palpability at the center of the stage, with each accompanying instrument positioned tangibly in its own space at a realistic distance from her. I’ve visited the space in which this recording was made