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| break-in for Marantz SA-7S1 Heard a marantz SA7S1 at RMAF.. . from the time it had 0 hours and was just pulled from the box, to when it had about 100 hours on it. Remarkably good sound for a brand new unit and kept improving all the way. . . I would expect that complete brea... | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Thank you Everest, that was very interesting. . . for one thing, according to John Stronczer in the video, , the front ends of Ref500 and Ref1000 amps appear to convert AC to DC and store temporarily the energy in a bank of capacitors. Feeding the... | |
| Quietest 500GB Firewire drive? Prpixel, which 2.5 inch 500Gb drive do you use? G. | |
| Quietest 500GB Firewire drive? Lacey does not make drives. . . they package third party drives in their own enclosures. major Drive manufacturers are Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, Hitachi, Fujitsu, Toshiba. Packagers of external drives tend not to source the newest/quietes... | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Hi Dob, did you hear them at RMAF? The entire system in 589 was pretty remarkable. G. | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Kenobi, I listened to the entire system and it is difficult for me to isolate any particular observation to the BC Ref 500 amps unless I auditioned them in my own system. Furthermore, there were no other amps in the same room against which to comp... | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Downunder, yes it would be interesting to learn how Bel Canto has achieved its sonic goals in the latest generation of amps while containing weight to under 20 pounds. We are starting to see a flurry of deceptively minimalistic devices which yield... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre no offense taken Kawika, I really shouldn't throw stones myself. I was introduced to the ARC and Rowland Sound many years ago by Angie, the owner of American Sound in Toronto. . . only after mistakingly referring to her as the "sweet thing" teleph... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Kawika, I do not recall anyone by the name of Chicke at JRDG. the nice lady who usually answers the phone at JRDG is Kelly, who is an excellent business manager, while Jeff drives engineering and strategy. G. | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Hi Downunder, In the Bel Canto room I was impressed by the sound I heard more than anything else. Bel Canto may have concentrated resources on engineering internals rather than on exterior metal work. I suspect the Ref1000 still utilizes the ASP10... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Hi Kawika, as far as I know all the hardware is ready and there are a few dozen Criterions almost ready to be shipped. . . control firmware is expected to be completed by year end. . . but, have you ever dealt with software developers? There is al... | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF I have just checkd with Bel Canto. . . according to them, there is NO REF2000 amp planned at any time. G. | |
| 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 |