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| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Well, the PD did very well at the 2008 RMAF in Soundings and Sounds Real's rooms. At Soundings there as an A-B with the very nice looking Marantz SA7. The Marantz had only 100-hours on it by Sunday, but the PD was much more dynamic, imaged more na... | |
| Favorite Speakers at RMAF Mr. Feil doesn't sell those speakers, so... | |
| Spectron Musician III - Can anyone comment on it? The Rowland was much preferrable in the Soundings suite; HOWEVER, had Soundings set up the suite with the Spectron and if the Spectron had been fed with an equivalent CDP and a few other things, then the game would have been on, I'm sure. Despite ... | |
| Amp for Dali Hellicon 400 mk2 Sorry Mike. I really thought there'd be a Dali suite, with these things running to perfection. Instead, Dali was referring to Soundings' second suite. They were running it with a REL sub, which was turned off for my listen. I would have like my op... | |
| Amp for Dali Hellicon 400 mk2 Well, Dali didn't have a separate suite. I did listen again in the Soundings second room and noted the same bass problem I've heard before, using Rowland to drive.Dave | |
| RMAF 2008 - Your impressions,... Glory, there's lots of chatter about the PD here on A'gon. You'll be able to find a ton with the search function. I'm just glad to finally get some company in my view of the PD.Could you name a few of the other CDPs that you listened to?Dave | |
| RMAF 2008 - Your impressions,... There was no A-B comparison in the Sounds Real Audio room, so you just heard good sound, with the PD pushing through some nice tube amps into Wilson Benesch. I felt like the speakers were way too far into the room, away from the walls, so that mos... | |
| RMAF 2008 - Your impressions,... Good luck with the dyi Master Set Drubin. I'll just say, "take your time and don't give up." It took the Sumiko and Soundings guys SIX HOURS to set the Die Musicks. Toward the end, when it was 'almost' perfect, I was amazed at the impact of moving... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Remember when you compare hiss, you have to do it at the same gain. Some pre-amps don't have as much gain as others, so when you compare their hiss at full volume it may not be apples to apples.I didn't know if the PFC's conversion to DC might red... | |
| RMAF 2008 - Your impressions,... I find that I can get to know reviewers over time, even here on A'gon. When I'm able to do that, their input is valuable to me. As you say, others may have different tastes and would be mistaken to follow the same reviewer's lead.One example is Ar... | |
| Best of RMAF 2008 Yeah, I wish it wasn't going to be so long before I can put it in my system.Dave | |
| Best of RMAF 2008 I liked the Soundsmith room so much that I bought a wood-bodied version of The Voice moving iron cartridge and several 45-rpm LP dups, direct from Peter Ledermann's Neuman lathe.I'm travelling a lot, so I won't be able to mount the cartridge for a... | |
| RMAF 2008 - Your impressions,... Outlier, it's always interesting to see the show reports of a show that many attended. You loved the Utopias, but I thought that they were amongst the worst in the show. I focused on the presentation of Jennifer Warnes' and Mark Knoffler's voices.... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Are you using power factor correction with your Capri? My Continuum 500 is very quiet and so is the Criterion, but the Capri isn't quite in the same league, but very good. I don't know what gives there. My Continuum has PFC. The Criterion will hav... | |
| New Focal Grande Utopia EM I'm not a Wilson hugger and slid out of the 20-minute Utopia demo about 5-minutes in. The set up was way off. Neither of the vocals in the Warnes/Wasserman cut or the Knoffler cut sounded right. With such huge speakers the setup has to be absolute... |