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| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Hi SoundsReal, I visited your suite with Dave Stephens. . . probably before you had an opportunity of doing final fine tuning of speaker positioning. . . . Rather, I'd love to visit your shop next time I travel to Denver, and listen to your fine e... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Just learned a couple more bits of info about the Criterion at RMAF. . . the device was an engineering model whose internals are still a little away from final production. For one thing it does not have final ceramic multi-layered boards, but it u... | |
| Vienna Die Muzick flagship speakers For some more observations on the Vienna/Rowland room, including -- Die Muzick speakers -- at the RMAF 2008 show, see my post today at:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1216693488&openmine&zzGuidocorona&4&5#Guidocorona | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Here are some more post RMAF notes. . .Soundings suite top flight system consisted of Vienna Muzick, JRDG 312, JRDG Criterion running on AC (that probably just reached 100 hrs mark by end of show(, brand spanking new Marantz SA7S1 player with 50 h... | |
| Direct from PC or wireless Yes, on a wireless connection the data rate and subsequent jitter is at the mercy of the ether, the data rate and jitter can flutuate wildly, and no clock synchronization can really be performed by the DAC. Conversely, over a USB or Ethernet conne... | |
| Direct from PC or wireless At RMAF several suites featured server-based digital systems of one form or an other. I got the general impression that wireless setups sounded hazy. One comparative confirmation of sorts came in the TEAC Esoteric suite, where I heard a server con... | |
| Preamp recommendations up to $2000 I second LaPierre's suggestion for Rowland Capri as an excellent SS option. I also listen mostly to classical music and prefer Capri over ARC Ref 3 for extension, linearity, and harmonic integrity. Just 2 words of qualification. . . 1. Capri is sy... | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF From the Soundstage blurb linked above:"The sound was finely detailed and rich with ambience, satisfying even those listeners seated to one side or the other."Bang on I must say. . . I was one of those people sitting on one side, by the way.G. | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Dave is correct, I own neither MPS-5 nor Esoteric tristack; rather, my CDp is the single box TEAC X-01 Limited, which I have not had the opportunity of comparing directly to PD as yet. Given the various unfavorable circumstances of the session, al... | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Marantz SA7S1 in the Soundings room was impressive for a new player that was essentially just out of the box. . . Id did display some understandable slight roughness in the mid treble and a slight propensity for congestion that was already largely... | |
| Spectron Musician III - Can anyone comment on it? Hi Rafael, yes the amazing thing is that the much more modest setup with the Spectron was -- at least to my idiosyncratic ears -- sonically preferable to the much more ambitious one. Admittedly small rooms are difficult to set up, and the very bes... | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Yes, Bel Canto Ref 500 monos in room 589 in the Marriott were driving a pair of $38K TED speakers and the result was. . . magnificent! Open, extended top to bottom, graceful, authoritative, nuanced. Bel Canto Ref 500 monos are worth listening too.... | |
| Synergistic New Tesla Line...Any comments? All, I visited the Synergistic Longs Peak suite about 5 times during the RMAF show. . . I staied there a minimum of 20 mins to a max of 45 mins each time, slouching as deeply as I could into the chair. . . typically until I suspected I had staid m... | |
| Spectron Musician III - Can anyone comment on it? I also preferred Spectrons in room 907 over 1004. I perceived a greater ease to the presentation. Although my favorite by far is still last year's set up at Steve Chang place using SP speakers, H-Cat and his old CDp IN HIS ADMITTEDLY EXCELLENT ACO... | |
| Vienna Die Muzick flagship speakers Spent several hrs yesterday in suite 505 while Die Muzick were being set up with the Masters process, driven by JRDG Criterion and JRDG 312 with MPS5 and Marantz SA7 as source. There are some limitations because of the very small suite, but overal... |