10-03-2011, 11:30 PM
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Merry Christmas to all
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: North Central Florida
Posts: 53,224
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Originally Posted by PHC1
Dan, sorry to hear that but I did mention that you would have to "invest" quite a bit of money to get a meaningful improvement in performance... I guess in this case the $3800 isn't quite enough although it is a decent sum of money no matter how you look at it.
I'll send you my EAR324P to play around with if the XP-15 does not improve after a brief break in over some days. I'd like to hear your take on the 324P, a SS phono stage with step up trannies for MC side of the equation. I personally think it is an absolutely smoking phono stage as far as SS goes.  |
Serge.......I heard you when you made your comment with respect to dollars versus performance, and I am in agreement. It is unfortunate that investing $3800.00 in a phono stage doesn't produce greater results. The real eye opener for me was how well the McIntosh MC phono stage sounds in comparison.
I appreciate the offer to audition the EAR324P. I may just take you up on it.
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Dan
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