greetings from colombo! I am here on a small mission ref to work/business, hence the delay in my reply. will be back in melbourne March 6th; being missing my family and of course my music!!! there are no live jazz events here either, going crazy, anyway work keeps us busy.
thanks for your message Steve, yes the Alexandria's sound awesome driven with Lamm amplification, infact they sound their best I guess. However with my Quad 2905's the sound was also quite good, but seems to mellow a bit with the conrad johnson. hence, I prefer to drive the Quads with c-j amplification, I don't know why this is, but there seems to be better synergy going on.
couldn't get hold of a Lamm preamp as yet, my singapore friend was not in town, but should have something ready for my return trip, as I have also left a note for him. It's a bit difficult to keep on disconnecting the preamp whenever I want to listen to the wilsons. Hey a buddy of mine just got the new magico Q5's. not bad, very nice indeed, how do you guys rate the Q5's?
well at the end of the day it is not a wilson! but for the price it's a real bargain I must say.
I am running the Walker Audio black diamond series I turntable as source, plus the meridian & c-j as transport +DAC combo. I intend on getting hold of the new REFCD8 audio research for digital playback, but them again the new Cary 300T also sounds pretty good, different sound though.
My current meridian / c-j combo is equally good, I really don't know why the hec I want to change. It's just that when I listened to the RefCD8 something seems more right in the sound, accuracy, timbre pitch, timing, presentation and layout of textures etc- it all falls neatly into place kind of. a bit difficult to explain in words... rather one would have to listen.
I also had the chance of auditioning the new digital play back systems from Wadia, which was very pleasant as well. Now I am confused as hell.
any suggestions here are welcome?
Thanks for all your messages and notes, will certainly keep in touch.
cheers, RJ