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Conrad-Johnson It just sounds right |
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I paid the dealer $800 to give it back to him and refund the rest. Both of us were not happy - he just thought I was a complaining difficult customer ( no universal agreement please I never really got a handle on what the ACT2 would have ended up sounding like. That said, after listening to the ARC LS27 ( which is very nice) I just prefer the 6922 based cj pre amps. live and learn right. |
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I'm not going anywhere and enjoying the ride. Thanks! |
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I understand the 6922's are a little sweeter and the 6N30P's are a little cooler. I think that is why I gravitated towards the ET5.
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For my part I liked the CT5
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I think that's an accurate assessment, and very much in line with what I observe with my Premier 17 (6922 based) and my CT-5 (6N30 based) when comparing head to head, and believe me, I've done that a lot.
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Lumin P1 streamer/DAC/preamp, Constellation Inspiration integrated TT: Michell Gyro SE MkII, SME V, Koetsu Urushi Vermilion, EAR324. Harbeth 30.2s, REL R-305, Shunyata Alpha V2 ICs, Alpha V2 SPs, Sigma XC, Sigma NRv2, Omega QR-s & Alpha NRv2 PCs, segmented Altaira SG stack w/ Alpha & Omega CGCs, Everest 8000 PD. Remote Server Room: Uptone EtherREGEN, AfterDark Master Clock & LPS, Alita, Battle Angel, (Akasa NUC Roon Core), iFi DC Purifiers (for SMPS used for Alita & router), Shunyata Gemini combo power distributor & Altaira-type CG GP-NR hub, Venom & Alpha CGCs, Shunyata NRv14 power cords for digital components. Last edited by Puma Cat; 09-07-2011 at 04:43 PM. |
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As did Jeff Whitlock when he heard mine. OTOH, my friend Gregory really prefers the Premier 17.
There are qualities that I like about both. The CT-5 is more neutral, detailed, transparent, faster, and quieter, but the Premier 17 is more musical, warmer, weightier, and fuller sounding, and has more fully fleshed out images. I'd love to have a pre that combined the qualities of both, but that's probably a GAT. At the end of the day, I probably prefer the Premier 17 as I find it more musically engaging than the CT-5 and it pulls me into the music more. The midrange of the Premier 17 is to die for. Here are some quotes from the Stereophile review (Stereophile, May 8, 2001) "This is not to say that the 17LS wasn't luscious and sweet. It most certainly was, but in the captivating ways that a live instrument is or a wonderful acoustic space can be, with rich, dense tones and exquisitely, intricately layered harmonic structures." and "I just knew that it would have a glorious midrange, and boy oh boy, did it ever. Sweet, luscious, clean, defined, detailed, coherent, clear—my notes are full of page after page of audiophile superlatives, hoping, I guess, to achieve amplification through repetition. The Premier's midrange proved to be one of those standard-setting entities that makes a reviewer regret having used up all his or her superlatives on lesser components. The C-J's midrange was so sweet, so detailed, so...everything, that every other preamp I threw in my system sounded a bit crude, or pale, or confused in comparison." I find these observations to be quite accurate. If there one word I would use to describe the Premier 17LS, it's sweetness.
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Lumin P1 streamer/DAC/preamp, Constellation Inspiration integrated TT: Michell Gyro SE MkII, SME V, Koetsu Urushi Vermilion, EAR324. Harbeth 30.2s, REL R-305, Shunyata Alpha V2 ICs, Alpha V2 SPs, Sigma XC, Sigma NRv2, Omega QR-s & Alpha NRv2 PCs, segmented Altaira SG stack w/ Alpha & Omega CGCs, Everest 8000 PD. Remote Server Room: Uptone EtherREGEN, AfterDark Master Clock & LPS, Alita, Battle Angel, (Akasa NUC Roon Core), iFi DC Purifiers (for SMPS used for Alita & router), Shunyata Gemini combo power distributor & Altaira-type CG GP-NR hub, Venom & Alpha CGCs, Shunyata NRv14 power cords for digital components. Last edited by Puma Cat; 09-07-2011 at 04:43 PM. |
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Did you try the 6H30 reflektor on the CT5?
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Nope...I could, I guess. I don't know that it would change the overall "flavor" that much. It's still a 6N30.
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Lumin P1 streamer/DAC/preamp, Constellation Inspiration integrated TT: Michell Gyro SE MkII, SME V, Koetsu Urushi Vermilion, EAR324. Harbeth 30.2s, REL R-305, Shunyata Alpha V2 ICs, Alpha V2 SPs, Sigma XC, Sigma NRv2, Omega QR-s & Alpha NRv2 PCs, segmented Altaira SG stack w/ Alpha & Omega CGCs, Everest 8000 PD. Remote Server Room: Uptone EtherREGEN, AfterDark Master Clock & LPS, Alita, Battle Angel, (Akasa NUC Roon Core), iFi DC Purifiers (for SMPS used for Alita & router), Shunyata Gemini combo power distributor & Altaira-type CG GP-NR hub, Venom & Alpha CGCs, Shunyata NRv14 power cords for digital components. |
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I just came to receive a pair of reflektor when I sold my CT5+LP70s, I had no leisure to listen to them but the buyer of the CT5/LP70s pluged them and his conclusion is that they bring to the message more presence, more transparency and improve the bottom of the spectre, its speakers are SF CREMONA AUDITOR M and his front-end a tubed CDP LECTOR
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