Interestingly enough, ore means natural source of metal, as in iron ore, thus links us back to gold. Others may have a different pronunciation. On the spelling of 'Aür' with the umlaught, I simply used the spelling Abel and Nicholas had on their original website (as was before the revamp).Īs to pronunciation, like you, I go for 'ore', as in audio and I associate it to ears. I guess the meaning Abel and Nicholas would attribute to their audio products is the reference to ears but it is a guess for now, until I hear from Nicholas.

However, various other references are made to Aür being the root of the word 'aural', a reference to ears. Given coins were a representation of the value of the relevant metal plus the amount of it (purity plus size of the coin) it is logical for the Greek term to be adopted by the Romans. It is said to be derived from the Greek word to denote coin or coins. The Romans used the word, Aür, to mean gold, aurum and aura, plural. It appears the Greek used the word to denote coins. I'll let you know about that one.Īs I understand it, Abel and Nicholas chose the name Aür on the basis of the Greek word. But it is only capable of 400mW from the highest powered output and has a bit of a hard time driving SOME gear I have. I will have to look at the numbers again to know for sure. I don't think I will have an issue driving them to volume (or underdamping them either), for all except the tube amp card. Do you find the texture to be good on these, or would you consider one of the other models to be better at that, where bass is concerned? I don't want it to have rumble but no visceral depth to it. But, like you said, I DO want some punch too.

I want it when I want it, but I don't want something so overly tuned in the mid-bass that stuff that is NOT supposed to sound bassy does. Would you say that the dynamics are akin to something like Focal phones (known to be some of the best at that)? And the bass sounds like I will love it. That ususally does indeed indicate a fantastic imaging and layering (when good transducers are involved) IMO.

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