In Reply to: did you have a bad first introduction to Magnepan ? posted by trioderob on October 26, 2021 at 20:46:36:
Quite the opposite. I had already heard the Infinity Servo-Static I and ESS TranStatic I when in 1972 I visited a newly opened hi-fi shop in Livermore, California. That day just happened to be the same day that Bill Johnson was delivering and installing his complete ARC system in the shop of his newest dealer (Audio Arts, owned and operated by Walter Davies, later of Last Record Preservative fame): an SP-3 pre-amp and Magneplanar Tympani T-I's bi-amped with Dual 51 (midrange/tweeter) and Dual 75 (bass) amps. The source was a Decca Blue pickup mounted on a prototype ARC arm (which never made it into production) on a Thorens TD-125 Mk.2 turntable.
I bought that exact system (but with a Decca International arm) from Walter a few months later. Not bad for a 22 year old. ;-)
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