Jerry's ongoing system blog

[jandl100]

Detail freak.
heh heh - guilty as charged, m'lud. I do like to hear what is going on in a recording.

I'm pretty sure my Maggie 1.6QR speakers killed my Sony amp - I had been driving them pretty hard at times - I reckon the Amcron DC300A should be able to put those panels in their place, though.

[_D_S_J_R_]

It's my experience with *many* if not all Jap amps that they could deliver the volts to get the Watts up, but often not the current that Maggies may need. Changing one Levinson amp into a bigger one in the range when driving MG1C's (early to mid 90's before Levinson tarted up their cosmetics) opened up the perceived soundfield no end, the sound becoming more lifelike.

Hope you don't mind these jottings Jerry. I know you laugh a lot of it off, but still...

[jandl100]

I'm sure you're right - the current's the thing, those Jap amps just don't swing it. No real driving power for difficult loads.

[jandl100]

New toy !!



A room correction / DAC / pre-amp thingamejig.
- one of these http://www.tnt-audio.com/accessories/ds ... de2_e.html

It's a DAC and pre-amp, but its main purpose is room correction in the bass.

It's a goodun. I think it has supplanted my MDAC as DAC and pre-amp de jour. It doesn't have the MDACs slight grain in the mids and slight top end emphasis, but seems just as resolved. Dynamics might be slightly curtailed compared to the very forthright Audiolab. But overall it seems more 'musical' to me.

(I think I'll try the MDAC with the Crown ballbuster DC300A amp and Maggies in my 2nd system, the Crown being a tad laidback it may work well).

Whoa - the room correction thing works well. There was a 50Hz peak that the box'o'tricks vanquishes. Bass is a bit better controlled but the main improvement, strangely, is a significant improvement in the imaging. Yum.

[jammy395]

It aint real hifi its..............

[jandl100]

So what is 'real hifi' then Jammy?

Seems to me that getting rid of room resonances is likely to be a good thing.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Don't fight the room, work with it.

You like graphic equalisers and now this It is all filters, and all filters are the work of the devil.

From the record player tone controls, to modern digital processing, it is all

[jammy395]

Erm.........What he said Jerry.

[jandl100]

I just like to try things.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

BUT you claim they are good, which is frustrating to a purist like me.