Jeff Rowland

Ricred1, Guidocorona, thanks for your respective posts & clarifications.
What happened in my post also happened earlier in Onhwy61's post when he asked what Ricred1's vision was. Just like me, Onhwy61 didn't think that Ricred1 had a vision for his improvements until Ricred1 came back in the next post & said so. It seems to me that Ricred1's not the greatest in communicating his thoughts & ideas & when he's out looking for advice like this, communication is everything. We don't know each other & we can only go by what info is posted. Like I wrote in my post there are no posts on bridging the M525s so I naturally assumed no one's discussed the pros & the cons....
Yeah, I agree its not a tribunal for sure. If Ricred1 is soliciting advice then lets discuss the topic in depth but that only happens when there's a better flow of information otherwise people end up making wrong assumptions.

Ricred1 I didn't insult your intelligence - I wrote that I assumed you didn't understand & further in parenthesis I also wrote that my assumption could be wrong.

Bombay walla, soliciting advice or options does not imply that the questioner has an obligation to heed such opinions, nor to explain his deviations from the above.

In the end, Richard's own findings in situ will add to the body of hard evidence-knowledge on this site one way or another.

G.

Earlier in this thread I never meant to suggest that Ricred1 didn't have a vision, but that I wished he'd actually state it as opposed to the original question about a preamp vs. separates.

I too am a little surprised by his choice of bridging the power amps, but I suspect he'll be quite happy, at least for a little while. All his stated goals can be better addressed by loudspeaker placement and acoustic treatment (sometimes adding, sometimes removing). I also wonder why saving up for the 625s is out of the question?

It's not a tribunal, but to think there are no judgments being made is naive. I would hope that on these forums we can honestly and directly share our thoughts.

I believe that the just announced Rowland M625 S2 may cost approx $18K. Makes for significant planning impliccations. G.

06-13-15: Guidocorona
Bombay walla, soliciting advice or options does not imply that the questioner has an obligation to heed such opinions, nor to explain his deviations from the above.

Sorry Guidocorona, I find this very weird then. If one is not going to take the advice given nor is going to share the deviations from the advice given then why bother asking a question on a forum & why bother wasting people's time soliciting their advice? One should just go off & do what one wants....
If one is engaging other people in a forum for one's own benefit then, yes, one does need to share owns own knowledge base pertinent to the subject at hand & let everybody (who is trying to help you) why one is going off on another track.