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In Reply to: RE: Audio Note speaker questions for the initiated posted by gryphona@hotmail.com on April 22, 2008 at 10:23:12
Everything is a series of upgrades - and you have to start somewhere. Few have the cash to buy the whole system at once. The E/Spe is better served with AN front ends or likely designs that compliment the speakers - Single ended topology class A. Naim is solid state and class B which is about as far away from Audio Note's design as amplifiers get.
OTOH Naim has succeeded with Class B operation where virtually nothing else has so I would bring your amp and see how it works out.
I liked the Sugden amp I had with my J/Spe. Now I have the OTO Phono SE which is quite a lot better. But the Sugden is not embarrassed by any stretch - high quality highly musical products never are.
Right now I have the NAD 533/Shure turntable rig and it will be the next to go - I'm in the process of working the financial system around to afford a new in all likely-hood AN TT2 rig.
I'd rather pay more and do it right than continually upgrade and crew around fiddling and upgrading. I want the turntable rig to be set for at least a decade.
Then it's on to the digital source. My Cambridge Audio CD6 has been going strong for 12 years now. I have become a little attached to the featherweight. But an AN DAC will likely see the light here eventually although there are three other DAC makers that suppsedly give the AN a good run - Space Tech Labs, Emm Labs, and Altman Attraction DAC (though it has to be the ugliest audio component ever made). Still AN leads for me because of the synergy aspect.
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