Geoff.R.G wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 10:30 am
Enjoy your new amplification when it arrives.
Well, yesterday three boxes arrived on my doorstep
Unfortunately It should have been four, but one is still in the sorting location in Manchester, hopefully arriving today and not lost
So I have three black "Magic" boxes and no cables ... At least I can plug the Phono 1, and the S300 (weighs a ton!) in to the mains. Removing the (Cambridge Audio interconnects from the CD Player - not used in a long while - and plugging that into the P1 at least means I can enjoy an upgraded phono stage.
Very, very, very, early first impressions. Ho, Hum, what's all the fuss about? certainly nothing extra special about Gary's Still got the Blues, and the Texas Blues was horribly bright and a harsh top end
... OK it's early days. A couple of hours later I had time to listen again, and decided to give it something "easy" Voyage, by ABBA. Soundstage much wider than normal, even from my off centre listening position. instruments locked in position. Benny's Piano sounded like a piano. You could hear Annifrid's vocal technique quite clearly on "I still have faith in you" even down to the slight differences in pronunciation that a non native English speaker has, and Frida's English is very good indeed. This is more like it :D
Next up Simply reds Picture Book, with it's reference track "Sad Old Red"
Wow! Great soundstage, super bass control transients controlled, can actually tell the difference between the partially open hi hat and lightly brushed cymbals. Micks vocals, sublime.
Throwing Shakespeare's sisters "Hormonally Yours" at it this early was probably a little bit of an unfair test. Both girls vocals very sharp in the upper registers, but sound stage was good, easy to separate out the instruments, and follow say the bass lines. ... One to revisit once things have settled down.
Moonlight shadows by The Shadows, usual polished performance by the boys, Hanks 'strat handled effortlessly, really good toe tapping music.
Can't wait to get the cables and have it all run in properly, at the moment with the current interconnects, the Azur 640A (Mk I), and the QED Silver plated stranded speaker cable I think something is "choking" the sound. My plan was to introduce the cables first, then the P1, the P50, and finally the S300 into the mix, so I could see what it actually was that wasn't letting the music "sing". DHL had other ideas obvs