Recent content by dragon76

That's exactly what I thought when reading this post! Bryston are very much neutral, so partnering with speakers is critically important. On my own opinion and based on my limited experience with Bryston I can say that the brand is somewhat overpriced. I do not want to comment on their amps, but...

Agreed fully plus also update your firmware to one of the most recent ones.

I don't think I was misinformed, please go back to me post where I said 'much less vibration', I fact an SSD has no moving parts at all, and laptor sized 2.5 HDDs are almost silent and vibrate just little. Also, an important consideration for computer audio playback is to move HDD away from the...

Hard drives do sound better and this is one the key factors of why people are moving from CDs to computer based playback. CD transports are rotating mechanisms that create vibrations which negatively impact sound quality. Also when laser reads a CD it may create errors. Very expensive CD...

CD player is an odd way to rip CDs. It is done on your PC using a CD-Rom with the relevant sofware, like what you mentioned. I can also suggest bdpoweramp, which I am using with no issues. The whole idea here is to use a good quality CD-rom and you will be able to do the job just fine. Just try...

SACD as format of music on optical disks indeed never significantly picked up, however for me it quality is much higher than that of CDs and even hi-res PCM. While SACD is not that popular, its digital format (DSD) grows rather fast. In fact many records are first being mastered as DSD and then...

It is certainly true that some speakers have exaggerated top end, and it is certainly true that most of the modern music is poorly mastered with too much brightness and booming bass, but when stating that a system sounds bright and harsh please do not forget that your room plays significant role...

Agreed 100%, not sure what better amp can you possibly buy. From my experience I do like ATC matching with Plinius amps, these make the speakers sound rather smooth, but just little bit slow. I also just recently tried my ATC 40 with Musical Fidelity M6prx and found this combo to be really good...

I would expect a company like Rega to spend time more on new DACs and streamers than on one more turntable and CD player, but it can be that their marketing dept has determined that this is a better focus. I greatly respect Rega and their products, but just can't stand when their DAC has not yet...

Rick, thank you for your comment. As I noted previously, I already use ATC SCM 40 in my main system, so the desire was to use smth else in my yet to be built another system. In fact when I acquire MF I will be able to insert it into my current setup with ATCs and check out how these two go...

I'd say, audition PMC and Dynaudio from your list. From my experience these two brands go very well with Naim.

toyota man, that's exciting you find MF working fine with ATC speakers, I do not see many people who are using this particular combination. One of the reasons I do not consider ATC is that I already have them in my primary location, so for the second home I wanted to try smth different. However...

Rega is a very nice DAC and it should be used in a proper hi-fi setup to be able to reveal its quality. Digital sources make a lot of difference since this is where your music chain starts. If by inserting Rega DAC one doesn't hear any difference, then there are two reasons for this (1) either...

Thank you for your recommedations, the selection right now looks pretty exciting. David - you recommend MA and B&W. Some people say they are a bit bright, which I want to avoid. I have never listened to either of these speakers, so in case you have an opinion on this matter I would highly...

All, I need your advice. I am about to start setting up a HT/hi-fi system in my second home and I was offered MF M6PRX power amp for a very good price. Since it is almost new and under warranty I am going to proceed with buying it since I don't believe I'll get anything better for that amount of...