Babur72:SlickenSmooth:
To really trigger the M5 you'll need those Soulution Monoblocks bi-amped. Or better yet:
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The 360.2 are amazing but they won't bring out the best of your M5's.
Also whatever specifications states the Spectral SDR4000S Pro is still by far the most natural and most musical cd player yet.
Just heard the MIT MA-X2 interconnects and cables. Unbelievable what a cable can do. Much better than the Oracle MA on all levels.
Hi S.S.,
I hear(?) what you're sayin'.The Solution 700 mono-blocks are rightly well regarded - I understand Magico's chief designer Alon Wolf tests his 'speakers with them(along with Odyssey Audio's amp's among others).
I guess i should have mentioned i was basing my selection on components that i have personally heard & those that a couple of my most discerning(& most fortunate) friends have owned or auditioned.
The Spectral amp's output power of 300 Watts RMS @ 8Ohms/533 RMS Watts @ 4Ohms/680 RMS Watts @ 2Ohms,a high & stable current supply(90 amp's peak) at such outputs,their incredibly high rise-time(<300 nanoseconds) & fast settling-time(1.5 microseconds) & ultra-wide bandwidth(DC-1MHz +/- 1dB) would be sufficient to extract the all of the Magico M5's performance potential.
Indeed.We didn't see the Magico M5's posing the Spectral Audio power-amp's any such problems when we heard them together at an invitational audio event in the US a few months ag
n the contrary.The synergy between them was - how can i put it?...Pretty damned good!
Judging by the choice of amp's in your own system,i'm sure there's no need for me to continue preaching(any further) to the converted.
Much like yourself,i also know the SDR-4000 Reference CD Processor to be a real gem of a digital disc player.But,as with all Spectral Audio products & as i'm sure you're aware,to maximise/optimise their performance they must be used with MIT/Spectral cabling.
Though,i wouldn't dismiss the latest EMM-Labs transports/DAC's & players.If you haven't already,i'd seriously recommend you demo. them.They really do have to be heard to be believed.
If you've personally heard the Solution 700 mono-blocks in an appropriate system,i'd be interested in knowing what you thought of them...Despite the fact that i've gone down the McIntosh route myself.
Regards.
BABUR.
Hi Babur,
We had a demo of the M5 and the 360's were very very good. But just when you think it's all that the M5 is capable of, the Soulution monoblocks biamped (need 2 pair of MIT Oracle MA-X speakercables, so really cost no object
) really opens up new horizons of the M5. The sound lingers in the space around it and seems to stay there and slowly dissolve. Magic.
The Soulution is almost invisible. It does not add anything and it doesn't take anything away. Big big stage full of details and low level details. I still prefer the Spectral amps as they add a slight lift in the mid which sounds very good to my ears. Although not as colorless it doesn't mean it's worse just depends on the listener's taste really.
MIT cables are not the best with every brand but with Spectral they do something special. You hear it. It's special. The EMMlabs XDS-1 I've not heard. But the CDSA SE was really not in Spectral's league. Too analytical and correct which means less natural,energetic and musical to my ears.
I'm really looking forward to the new Spectral DMA260. It should incorporate the new sound and latest ways of thinking of Spectral. They built a whole new chassis for it.
Regards
Slick.