My High-End Hi-Fi Set-Up

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the detailed reply - very interesting! I'll reply properly when I have more time :)

Marco.

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Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L

The later ones still used the speakons Paul

I am lucky Stephen in I have the stands that match the wood in the speakers



Regards Neil

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Ah, thanks for the clarification Neil. Really liked them when I heard them a fair few years back now.

Ooo :drool: - I'm jealous as hell about your Restek power amps!

I've had a Restek Consens pre-amp (silver fascia) for well more than a year now (a long time for a boxswapper like me!) - I think it's probably the best pre-amp I've had. Not that far off a good passive when it comes to transparency, and loads of drive (which a passive doesn't have) - and it just sounds good to listen to. :)

Lovely system you have there. :thumbsup:

Evening Jerry,

I remember the first time I was demo'd the Consens, it was virtually invisible to the system, and as you say very transparent.

Since moving to completely balanced configuration, this has provided a very much more immediate sound with more expression and emotion, there's more description to the sound, the music appears from a more "inky black" background, everything is more pronounced, more textured and dynamic, improved focus.

I can certainly vouch for balanced XLR over single-ended RCA. It makes XLR sound HD, and RCA like standard definition, with XLR it enables far greater sense of richness to be heard, like it's handed on a plate.

Those Extract mono's pack a punch and a half!, and on the flip side can be a light as air with an ease of transparency.

That reminds me, what disc shall I play now?.........*thinking*

regards

Stephen

Hi all,

I thought I'd post up the new member of the family to join my system, I have now added the Restek Cosmos FM tuner.

I managed to purchase this off a nice guy in Poland, it's superb, it's right up there with CD quality performance, fully RDS, it's quite superb, the imaging and sound-staging is truly excellent, once again I've used balanced XLR's to gain the best in acoustic performance, together with installing a dedicated FM aerial in the loft, the reception is crystal clear with little, to no background hiss that I can speak of.

http://theartofsound.net/forum/attac...1&d=1393678885

http://theartofsound.net/forum/attac...2&d=1393678915

http://theartofsound.net/forum/attac...3&d=1393678940

http://theartofsound.net/forum/attac...4&d=1393678970

http://theartofsound.net/forum/attac...5&d=1393679000

regards

Stephen

Cor. :thumbsup:

Restek make loudspeakers as well you know ;)

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