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In Reply to: RE: Life is a balance......................... posted by Dynobot on November 12, 2017 at 14:46:01
I am listening right now to Charley's creations: the KX-R Twenty preamp, MX-R Twenty amps, QX-5 Twenty DAC, and the P5-xe phono preamp through Wilson Alexia Series 2 speakers (not Charley's preferred speaker).Trust me when I say he is not going in circles!
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> > Trust me when I say he is not going in circles! < <
Hi Steve - thanks for the kind words. I would be pretty happy with that system, too! I've found that good electronics can make pretty much any speaker sound amazing. This is something that JA pointed out nearly 20 years ago (see linked review below).
That said, I know that there are better sounding phono stages out there than the one you are using. However, they all either use tubes, or cost at least 10x as much as your example. I know how to build a better sounding one now (that design was created over a dozen years ago). And I could probably make (slightly) better examples of everything you own - given an unlimited budget.
But the frustrating thing is that many won't buy those products for one reason or another - each of them having nothing to do with the performance or even the cost. "Too old" or "no MQA" or "too small" or "not expensive enough" or whatever. But I would gladly put that system up against anything else at any price using any technology (tubes or solid-state) - with the exception of the phono stage (as noted above).
The bottom line is I guess I'm better at design than at marketing.
I am pretty impressed with the P-5xe when using the balanced inputs given the unit's reasonable cost. I have owned more expensive phono preamps when vinyl was my primary source, but the P-5xe still sounds darn good mated to the R Series.Thanks for designing these fine components Charley.
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> > I am pretty impressed with the P-5xe when using the balanced inputs given the unit's reasonable cost. < <
I agree - given the caveat. On the other hand, I don't believe your other components need any caveats. (Of course, I would say that, wouldn't I?)
Thank you for sharing.
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