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In Reply to: RE: Thanks muchly! posted by Norman M on June 21, 2016 at 08:35:28
Tympani IIIs tri-amped with Dual 75s on tweeter / midrange and Crown DC-300a on woofers, SP-3a, Linn Sondek LP12/SME/Ortofon SL15. That experience was the first of several major recalibrations I've experienced as to how realistic an audio system could sound.
Alas, I was but a poor teenager at the time. Since I had purchased an HK Citation 11 and Crown D150 from that dealer to drive my Advents with Microstatic tweeters, he lent me the SP-3a over a weekend to audition. I can still remember how much more realistic the shakers and cymbals that open Steely Dan's Do It Again sounded with the ARC. It was then I became both a planar and ARC fan.
As a speaker guy, I had to address that first. Two years later had MG-IIs and another year following, a pair of Acoustat X. Now I was ready for a really good preamp!
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Stats will show up short comings in the pre PDQ. When I first got my Acoustats I had a seriously tricked out Counterpoint SA3000. I thought it was a damned good pre, but through the Acoustats it was immediately obvious that my judgement about it was quite premature. Fingernails on chalkboard is an apt description. So, out with the Counterpoint and in with a CAT. Huge difference, and from a CAT pre that was almost as old as my Acoustats and one that had no updates/upgrades vs. highly upgraded Counterpoint. That old CAT has since been replaced by newer, current model and yet another step up in performance. Stats are ruthless in exposing weaknesses up the chain from them.
Indeed!
I began with a Jensen FET-5 (Frank Van Alstine modified PAT-5) in '77. Pretty decent design where the sins were largely of omission. It was then I learned the value of power supply stiffness.
The three ARC preamps I've owned afterwards have all been much better. :)
Microstatic tweeters (MS-1, IIRC), I had a pair of those sitting atop my Acoustic Research AR-3 bookshelf loudspeakers before the AR-3A appeared on the scene.
You guys gave some good history of your early rigs, and how you got to where you are now at.
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