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Difference between Burmester 979 and MBL 1521A

In the market for a new transport upgrade from the CEC TL1X. Heard the Burmester 979 in my system and loved it. Less colored than the CEC while retaining the emotion and soul of the music. Also better at the frequency extremes. This is the best that I've heard in my system. Only heard the MBL at the shows and liked what I heard. Has anybody heard them side by side. I wonder if the Burmester belt drive mechanism has the edge in musicality.
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lula
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Osgorth, could you further elaborate on the differences between the 15xx and
16xx combos? What digital sources actually surpassed either or both combos?
Slam at the bottom end as well as an overall relaxed sound are very important to
me.
lula
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I have had the 5011 in my system and thought it was very open, transparent
and smooth. I felt it lacked mid-bass fullness and slam and sounded very much
like a ML 326. I preferred both to a ML 32 which I found to be amuscial. How-
ever, I kept my Ml 380S which I felt was more liquid, with greater slam and body,
although not as open and smooth as the 5011 or 326. The 6010D is definitely
something of interest to me....as well as the MBL digital pieces.
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