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| Planning to buy SF Ellipsa...any input? I heard Elipsa briefly recently driven by Devialet. The system had a beautiful, airy laidback quality. Very easy on the ear, perhaps not as transparent as my system and definately a little loose in the bass by comparison but well worth an audition. | |
| Time to Upgrade?? I had SF GPs a few years back, one of the caps began to leak and I changed the lot. I'd expect given their age a good tech might be able to give yours a good spring clean. That said I sold mine not long after and was very happy with Totem Forests ... | |
| pass labs xa30 to valve amplifier. Hi James, as you're in the UK I'd suggest contacting Anglesound Audio near Watford. Always looked after me and does Pass along with a number of tube brands, I've heard Almarro sound good there. I'm sure if nothing else he'd offer you some good adv... | |
| What to upgrade from Totem Forrest? Forests are a terrific speaker, I ran them with 200w of solid state very happily. I upgraded to Kharma and was surprised how much more the Kharma's had to offer, quite a bit more expensive and a good deal more speaker. S/h mine would likely be in ... | |
| Which power amplifier match audio research ref 3 I've heard ARC Ref pre's sound great in systems running off the top of my head, Krell Evo, CJ 350, Jadis JA 200 & BAT 75 aswell as ARC. It seems an amp that'll match well in many systems. That said system synergy is vital and I'd have thought ... | |
| Magico V3 Hi Lloydelee21,Hard to give a true sense of what the 458's were bringing as the system was unfamiliar and it was a dealer led demo.I can't offer great insight but fwiw...The system was Metronome Kalista Ref, Dart pre, 458's hooked up with Transpar... | |
| Magico V3 Interesting thread, choices, choices! The V3 in my limited experience can be a great speaker. Driven by Dartzeel 458 mono's there was little to complain about in the bass, sure a bigger more expensive speaker might go deeper but they're very good.... | |
| SET sound without a lot of money I heard Almarro mono's driving Marten Miles 3 in a small room, very musical and easy to listen too in a small room. Pre's were VTL and front end CEC transport into AMR dac. Well worth investigating the brand from my limted experience. | |
| Pass XP10, Ayre K-5xe, Calypso - Your Experience? I've just had a K5xemp followed by the Calypso in my system. The K5 took a while to break in sounding whooly and indistinct at first, a couple of weeks though and it was sounding very good. It had a fullsome yet transparent presentation and was to... | |
| Karan amp experiences wanted I've heard several of the big Karans and have enjoyed them greatly in systems setup by those that really know the brand. The 180 and Intergrated are somewhat different beasts. IME you really will need to try one. I've heard the 180 sound dreadful ... | |
| Marten Coltrane owners ..... what about Wilsons? A dealer recently shared a story where a customer with W/P 8s was having trouble getting them to work in his room which by the sound of it was a little hot. He introduced him to Coltrane's and they quickly got them working in that room. He felt th... | |
| Ypsilon Aelius monoblock Not heard the Aelius but was lucky to hear a full suite of Ypsilon inc SET-100 mono's driving Raidho C1 monitors in a small room. Breathtaking, as good as I've heard anywhere. If that experience was anything to go by they'll be well worth seeking ... | |
| What preamps outshine the Aesthetix Calypso? Be worth exploring the upgrade to Calypso Signature if you like what the current one does but want some more. Been hearing great things about it. | |
| Dartzeel CTH-8550. RCA vs Xlr Depends on what you run with it. A guy I know was running his cdp into an 8550 single ended. We borrowed the cdp for a shootout where in single ended it was very average. We reconnected later balanced simply because thats what we had been using on... | |
| Audio Research Ref 5 and Krell amps Just heard CD8/Ref5/Evo 402 into Franco Serblin's new Ktema speaker at a show. Very nice |