Recent content by Willsmusic

I have the MA silver 10s and have heard the 200s. Bear in mind the bass heft you will lose if you get the 200s. I think the Marantz will be fine with the 300s. You can always upgrade the amp at a later date. if you get the 200s and the Marantz you may end up with 2 components you want to...

The Roksan will be fine. Energetic and robust. Not the subtlest. But will get plenty out of most speakers.

I would get some easy to drive speakers like the Klipsch RP 500m’s for that room. They are good value in the US too - $350? They deliver good quality ‘Fast’ bass that doesn’t dominate. Spend the rest on amp. Agree with the point on positioning try and get your left speaker out of the corner...

I think it has to come down to personal choice, but for me Qobuz wins on sound and I do get tired of the Tidal home page as it doesn’t reflect the music I like.

The Cambridge phono stages have anti rumble I think also. Certainly the older models like the 651p do

have a looI at the Nord Acoustics range.

This album is a dense and industrial dub shoegaze record. It is a test of top end dynamics and bottom end heft. Not for the faint hearted. View: https://open.spotify.com/album/2WPEvf7ZHjbJz0PPKnmhuh?si=9mGfnq39R5ajRhdyK5hhlQ

If you are into electronica the new Fourtet album Sixteen Oceans sounds fabulous in 96/24 via Qobuz.

I have reluctantly come to the same conclusion. Again. it is becoming ever cheaper to obtain superior sound from streaming. After a recent purchase of a Nord EasyStream DAC I realise I need to spend around £1k, if not more to get anywhere near what I have from my streamer plus Qobuz. I...