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User Details - mx2005
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Malcolm Percival | |
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- Denon AVC-A1D THX amplifier - Meridian 506.20 CD player - Oppo DV-983H SACD/DVD-A/DVD-V player - Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray player - Pink Triangle Little Pink Thing Turntable - Rega RB300 Tonearm - Ortofon MC15 Super II cartridge - Musical Fidelity X-LPs phono stage - B&W CDM9NT front L/R speakers - B&W CDMCNT centre speaker - B&W CDMSNT surround speaker |
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October 20, 2009
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| Ooh, do you have the HD621 to get SACD into the Meridian digitally? I find myself dreaming about a G61R/HD621 in my system. Anyone got five thousand pounds? All the Linn recordings I own - classical and jazz - sound pretty wonderful to me. ... more | |
September 6, 2009
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| Thanks FullRangeMan for your understanding. The thing is all of the approaches appeal to me: I am not a 'tweaker' though - I can't even be bothered to change speaker cables! I like the idea though of something like the Copland CVA306 valve multichannel pre-amp, with some suitably beefy universal player (I guess that would make everything sound ... more | |
September 6, 2009
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| Apologies if I leapt on you, FullRangeMan: I worry sometimes reading on here that there are some who are dedicated to a 'traditional' player-analogue interconnects-preamp etc. (whether stereo or MC) and sneer at the 'new model' of transport-digital interconnect-processor type system (and sneer perhaps at equipment of an A/V persuasion). For me, ... more | |
September 6, 2009
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| With respect, I think that's a bit of a cheap shot - there's a gulf between that CEC transport (which seems borderline fraudulent to me) and what Oppo do which is provide a very honest budget high performance product. For what it's worth, my experience with the Oppo 983 is that it gives the best video performance I have seen from a DVD and sounds ... more | |
August 31, 2009
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| I've come to think that perhaps the situation with MC SACD players isn't as bad as I feared - the situation seems promising on the whole for the format - the veritable explosion of stereo players, new BD-universal machines coming from Denon, Marantz, Oppo, Cambridge, Lexicon... a steady stream of releases. I think we need to keep an eye on things, ... more | |