In Pursuit of the very best amplifier (to my ears!) money can buy...
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Not sure if this will be any help but Paragon in Ann Arbor handle Octave, Burmester and now Robert Koda. I only mention Burmester because Larry, owner of Paragon, has said that the 808 mk5 was the best ss preamp that he ever heard.
YMMV
Side comment - FWIW and IME, the Lyras are significantly more coherent and resolving without fatigue compared to the decades old Arrakis. The challenge with the Lyras is bass articulation at higher SPLs. An interesting and likely fruitful experiment would be the Lyras rolled off at ~50Hz to columns of equal transparency and highly capable subwoofers that I'd surmise would outclass Arrakis in all areas.
I have heard exceptionally good things about Lyra including everything you have said above...and have been advised that the Lyras plus subtower would indeed be killer. I still wonder whether the full-on airdisplacement of the Arrakis still hold that one meaningful edge over the Lyras.
All this sounds correct to me.
One could roll off the Lyras or just add -- as pk_LA has done -- one or two pairs of Gobel Divin Sovereigns, my favorite front-firing subwoofer.
(Whatever I start with, I want to make four towers out of it!)
The Lyras are excellent speakers IMO.
The biggest benefit from any extra - large speaker is scale possible via as you said, full - on air displacement (there are other variables but driver quantity is primary IME). As an example, my Spirits with subs play at a larger scale versus Lyras especially at higher SPLs, however, the Lyras have the benefit of higher resolution.
Fascinating to hear. Thank you for sharing that insight. As a huge fan of Rockport I have often thought of the Lyra but air displacement was the hold back…and perhaps based on your comment for me, that has been the right decision. The only possibility was having an exceptionally well designed and well set up subtower which I have discussed with Rockport years ago.
He has an enclosed rack (kind of in the wall) with only cables coming out, how is he going to have such tubes there?
In 2018 or 19 I had written post one my visits on linking and ivestigating Soulution preamp. During that Soulution eval I had also met a guy with Nat Magma, who was using Soulution preamp because it is better than the NAT Magnetostat he had before.
Just A thought..
Is the speaker set optimized in room to perfection?
I would imagine that this must be A smart move IF not already done.
Stirling Trayle comes to mind .. His site…
(Rockport use him for setup of their Lyra )
Choosing the perfect amp must be A lot easier if the room speakers and acoustics Are superb..
Is the speaker set optimized in room to perfection?
I would imagine that this must be A smart move IF not already done.
Stirling Trayle comes to mind .. His site…
(Rockport use him for setup of their Lyra )
Choosing the perfect amp must be A lot easier if the room speakers and acoustics Are superb..
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You partially have a point here. However, optimizing for speaker positioning may be dependent on the electronic gear. Ideally, you might want to re-optimize speaker positioning for each amp tested.
He's running a different system in a different room, I'm unsure why your data point should be relevant.
My question was to him not you, not that I was expecting him to answer in the affirmative, my question was more suggestion.
Indeed.
Also, having an Expert in this craft/skill show you how its done in your own listening room with what you already have makes for an immensely usefull new skill for continuing the journey further…
I seem to think that at this point in it, the journey, this is an option worth checking out
The price level of stuff here mentioned is quite insane.
Cool, but - strategy you can then shurely also afford.
My 2 cents..
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Yes, at that price level consulting an setup expert will hardly make a dent in the budget.
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