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| Narrowed to 3: 802D3, Sopra 3, Reference 3 Mayoradamwest and othersYou address 2 speaker lines I hope to audition in the same dealer showroom tomorrow. The dealer also carries Paradigm.I read your comments carefully and would appreciate any additional thoughts. I am trading my B&W 8... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers compared Readers of the foregoing, forgive my error. I was referring to the exaggerated brightness and ? suboptimal midrange clarity of the B&W D2's, not the D3's, whichare alleged to remedy this potential flaw.Seven ties | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers compared mmcelyea and others,I can now report my experience with the ML 534 as replacement for the ML 532h. Indeed the 534 'ups everything' but in a manner whichgreatly surprised me. The 534's improvement on sonic clarity and reproduction of transients s... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers compared mmcelyea,You have persuaded me to purchase a 534 as soon as I have soldmy 532h and hopefully my 326s, both of which I just advertised on Audiogon, US Audiomart, and Craigs list but to date withoutviable response. I have not previously sold on Aud... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers compared mayoradamwest,I await your opinion of the 802d3's. I note that mmcelyea is usingsopra 3's with the Levinson 534 amp and is very pleased. The sopra 3's. which I'd not previously know of, have a similar retail price to that of the 802d3's.As I con... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers compared Hi, mayoradamwest.I enjoy opinions such as you just provided, and trust you do as well.Regarding B&W, a recently retired high end hi-fi store owner elaborated to me the history of B&W, noting that they'd spent a small fortune on researchin... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers compared Your last comments offer what may be a viable however expensive solution to the dilemma inherent in appreciating the B&W 802 d2's visual aesthetics while attempting to tame their high frequency 'ring'. Of course the midrange could be tighter,... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers compared Thanks for the 532h-534 comparison.Does the 534 have or seem to have the same 'bottomless' power reserve that the 532h does, and have you 'noticed' or otherwise been concerned by what one review described as that amplifier's 'running hot'? Your c... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers compared Oldschool, thanks for your reply.Regarding once more the B&W loudspeakers, swapping d3 for d2 midrange and high frequency sections would avail the listener ofthe thicker tweeter enclosure, with reduced 'ring', and of the aluminum midrange encl... | |
| Best speaker/system piano concerts Regarding loudspeakers for piano concerts, B&W 802d3's are, I concur based onlistening at dealers' showrooms, a great choice....but so physically unattractive compared to the nicely sculpted 802D2's, which I own and which reproduce piano quite... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers George,Many thanks for the response.If you have similar insight into loudspeakers, I invite you to share it.I have B&W D2's, have not upgraded to the D3's because the latter are so physically unattractive, and have avoidedMagico and similar sp... | |
| KEF 205.2 or B&W 802D2? Gentleman,Can you share any thoughts regarding the B&W 802D2 versus the 802D3?If cost is not an object, should one automatically prefer the newer of these ?Amongst considerations are 1. the 802D2's in rose-nut are to myeye significantly more a... | |
| High End DAC's compared Steve,Are we on different pages ?Correct me if I am wrong.1. Regarding jitter, I read that modern DAC's, of which the Bryston is a fine example, are highly tolerant of jitter, and that jitter reduction interposed between the transport and DAC is r... | |
| High End DAC's compared Steve,According to the 'Absolute Sound' October, 2017 review of theBryston BDA-3, "with both CD's and DVD's the HDMI outputs of my Sony Blu-ray players sounded decisively more refined and neutral than those players' SPDIF outputs....mirroring what... | |
| High End DAC's compared Steve NI am grateful for your response.The Oppo 105d has what that manual calls a S/PDIF coaxial digitalaudio output, and the Bryston has a S/PDIF coaxial RCA digital input.I can compare the sound of a CD output to the Bryston by both methods, and... |