New cj ART Amplifier Being Installed

[MylesBAstor]

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[Steve Williams]

But Myles, the reward awaits you

 

[Ron Party]

You dog! Very nice. A few times I came very close to acquiring an ACT II. Did the cat come with the CJ?

 

[vinylphilemag]

Re that last pic: does the custom SRA stand dampen your pussy cat's purring?

 

[jadis]

Re that last pic: does the custom SRA stand dampen your pussy cat's purring?

lol...

 

[kach22i]

EL-34's?

 

[kach22i]

16x6550 Winged Cs.

Sweet.

 

[Gregadd]

for cat lovers.

 

[LL21]

Nice one...Myles, are these replacing the MLs? Or just for review?

 

[joeinid]

Looks great Myles. Gotta love that CJ gear. Nothing satisfies like Conrad Johnson!

 

[joeinid]

Thank you Myles. I'm looking forward to it. I'll coordinate with you soon. I'm dying to hear a great setup

I'm still waiting for a visit!

 

[Dre_J]

Who knows, maybe I'll make it all the way over there to visit one day!

Dre

 

[Bodhi]

Congratulations Myles, the CJ Gat & Art amps are lovely tube amps. If I was going tubes & had the space, that would be the way i'd go. Awesome setup...thanks for sharing it!

 

[LL21]

Congratulations Myles, the CJ Gat & Art amps are lovely tube amps. If I was going tubes & had the space, that would be the way i'd go. Awesome setup...thanks for sharing it!

Definitely a big +1 on the CJ GAT!...would love to hear the ART amps some day.

 

[LL21]

One morphed into the other. And I wasn't a Magico fan until they arrived in my listening room. Yes, they are that good.

Assuming 'morphed' means you are keeping them...congrats! They are tremendous speakers. They are clearly Magico heritage...but I really like the balance of all its attributes somehow better than the Qs. I respect the Qs a lot, and maybe they have more resolution...I don't know. But I CAN say I have enjoyed every time I listened to the S5s in terms of the balance of its overall presentation.

I will be most curious as to how the limited edition M7 sounds...perhaps a Q7 balanced like your amazing S5?

 

[ack]

One morphed into the other. And I wasn't a Magico fan until they arrived in my listening room. Yes, they are that good.

It's important to be open-minded! Beautiful!

 

[LL21]

What's stopping you?

a mighty Gryphon... To be honest, if I go with Arrakis someday, I'm gonna need the Gryphon having spoken with Andy Payor about his mighty flagship. If I stay with Wilson, then I am either extremely happy right where I am, or I could certainly explore the synergy of all-CJ.

 

[LL21]

The million dollar question? My guess it'll be more like the Q than S series especially with the new tweeter. Alon is among other things, very focused on reducing colorations. I think that comes through as what I like to call the speaker's "settling time" (yes I stole that from KOJ describing the design of his amps.) The Magico S5s are to my ears are just audibly quieter than other speakers I've heard. And that quality would be even more apparent with solid-state amplification. That in part really allows the speakers to resolve more info in my case off LPs and especially a hi Rez medium like 15 ips tape like never before. One hears so much more information that it's scary.

Take for instance the opening heartbeat on DSOTM. For the first time one can actually hear and feel the heart expanding and contracting, the heart pumping with a thump and the heart rate actually subtly speeding up and slowing down. Or you hear more of the musicians, especially on live jazz recordings, of the musicians talking, singing or humming along with the music. Or more of the audience talking. Most of all, there's just a realism to the tone and body of instruments, especially in the lower octaves. All of which just adds up to a feeling of being transported back to the original recording session.

But perhaps more than ever, the Magicos just reinforced one thing that audiophiles often forget: you really don't know what something sounds like until you hear it in your system. Forget shows, forget dealers. Home is where it begins and ends!

Great stuff, Myles...that sounds fantastic, and the way you describe the DSOTM opening is probably going to have half of us go running back to the album this afternoon! But your point is extremely well taken...I think we are in an era where there is truly some magnificent equipment at all levels, which have managed to dig out a trove of new information off older formats (even as new formats have been introduced)...and do so in a way that oftentimes is no longer artificially 'etched'.

And that has come from designs really being pushed alongside demanding use of anti-magnetic, anti-vibration, etc...to really reduce distortions. And as one area has been pushed, others have pushed elsewhere to match...so source, then cables, then speakers, then amps, then isolation, then all over again.

The most notable improvements I have noted is how quiet and coherent lots of the latest equipment has become in the last 3-4 years.

 

[dafos]

Below, corrected post....

 

[dafos]

The million dollar question? My guess it'll be more like the Q than S series especially with the new tweeter. Alon is among other things, very focused on reducing colorations. I think that comes through as what I like to call the speaker's "settling time" (yes I stole that from KOJ describing the design of his amps.) The Magico S5s are to my ears are just audibly quieter than other speakers I've heard. And that quality would be even more apparent with solid-state amplification. That in part really allows the speakers to resolve more info in my case off LPs and especially a hi Rez medium like 15 ips tape like never before. One hears so much more information that it's scary.

Take for instance the opening heartbeat on DSOTM. For the first time one can actually hear and feel the heart expanding and contracting, the heart pumping with a thump and the heart rate actually subtly speeding up and slowing down. Or you hear more of the musicians, especially on live jazz recordings, of the musicians talking, singing or humming along with the music. Or more of the audience talking. Most of all, there's just a realism to the tone and body of instruments, especially in the lower octaves. All of which just adds up to a feeling of being transported back to the original recording session.

But perhaps more than ever, the Magicos just reinforced one thing that audiophiles often forget: you really don't know what something sounds like until you hear it in your system. Forget shows, forget dealers. Home is where it begins and ends!

First of all, while it may be off topic, and on a personal note, CONGRATULATIONS to you and Heidi!

Great as your CJ's are, in my opinion you've not really maximized the performance of Magico's until driven by a good solid state amp, and that's coming from a 30 plus year ARC loyalist. Hegel, Krell e series and most notably Constellation blend beautifully with the Q series, clearly outperforming the ARC Ref 250's with a Q3. I just feel that the load Magico's present are just not friendly to tube amps. May be a different story though with the S series. Just my 2 cents worth....