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| Lamm LL2 vs. Blue Ciircle BC3000 GzPz vs. Calypso. cant comment on the Lamm but I had the Calypso on loan for quite a while and liked it a lot. Finally I went with Ayre K-5xe as it was more transparent, detailed and had a better sense of timing. | |
| Any Boulder pre/power amp users here? rich: thanks for the info. I just bought a pair of 865 monos to replace my Ayre V-1xe and I must say: I´m pretty amazed (a very good match with my Avalon speakers and my Audio Aero cd-player). Well done! | |
| Mark Levinson 32 and reliability Earflappin: interestingly I can´t agree at all with you regarding the Boulder - VTL comparison. I´ve just bought Boulder 850 monos and had them paired with Boulder 1010, VTL 7.5 and CJ ACT 2. All pre´s are excellent but regarding transparency and ... | |
| Marten Design Miles II vs Avalon Opus Ceramique..? Rmaurin: the next logical move would be the Lumen White White light - a real dream speaker.BUT the Opus Ceramique is great to (never compared it directly to the Lumen, but what i was told the Lumens are better than Kharma and Avalon. | |
| Best power amp for Avalon Opus Ceramique Vicdamone - thanks for your question. The V-1xe is going to a friend. The 850 are more detailed, more 3-dimensional and have much better bass control. Nevertheless: the V-1xe is a killer product in its own right. I like Ayre a lot and as far as I ... | |
| Best power amp for Avalon Opus Ceramique Thanks for the comments. Regarding the Ayre V-1xe - I´m going to replace it soon with Boulder 850 mono amps (different league).Regarding K-1xe (awful design - great sound but no contender to my nagra PL-L). I had a D-1xe on loan (grat sound but aw... | |
| Marten Design Miles II vs Avalon Opus Ceramique..? Hi. I´m not familiar with the Marten Design speakers, but I currently have at home Ayon Audio Falcon S and Avalon Opus Ceramique speakers. Although they use the same tweeter and midrange section both speakers sound totally different. The Avalon is... | |
| Best power amp for Avalon Opus Ceramique Mikefi: your thoughts about Active Audio are absolutely right. They combine the brands (Ayre, Hovland, Pass, Transparent and Avalon) in their show-room set-ups. The sound in most cases is very good -although the very expensive (to expensive for me... | |
| Best ICE-powered amps ? Elberoth2: you might be right and I must honestly say that I did to much equippment swaps and shoot outs this year and that I´m worn out doing more listening sessions.. I finally always return to Ayre gear (as I can´t afford the very expensive Bou... | |
| Best power amp for Avalon Opus Ceramique Heard great things about Lamm too.. Steve from GNSC highly recommends CAT or DartZell with Avalon and thinks Ayre is a great match as well. At trade shows in Germany you always see them paired with Pass or Hovland amplification - sometimes at deal... | |
| Esoteric DV-60 Polarity is something electrical.. My Esoteric dealer found it out when joining one of the listening sessions as he was confused that I still preferred the DV-50 S to the DV-60. To be honest - a modded DV-50 S is stillmuch better than a stock DV-6... | |
| Best ICE-powered amps ? I like the Ayre more. Pass is good too but the Ayre gives me a more easy listening experience. I was told to try Edge Class D amps as well but I´m not that convinced as I´ve once had the chance to listen to a shoot out between Edge NL 12.1 and Bou... | |
| Best power amp for Avalon Opus Ceramique Sphere: you are absolutely right. The longer I listen the more I have to agree (whereas I must say that I swapped my Nagra PL-L with a friends Ayre K-1xe which seems to suite the Avalons better than my PL-L). But as I have placed an order for Boul... | |
| Best ICE-powered amps ? Elberoth: I´ve just had JRDG 501´s in my set-up alongside with NuForce 9.02, Pass X 350.5 and my private Ayre V-1xe.I must say I currently lean strongly towards my Ayre (probably it doesn´t need a replacement ?). From the others I preferred Pass t... | |
| Best power amp for Avalon Opus Ceramique Jond: nevertheless -thanks for the hint. I just talked to a Kharma dealer and he strongly believes that the Khrama Matrix amps will be one of the top five matches with the Avalon Opus Ceramique regardless of price.I´m considering as well Lamm and ... |