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Welcome btanchors
Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I auditioned at length the Parasound P5/A21 combination. With the B&W 702 S2 and Parasound you have a fantastic system, enjoy. I ended up going with a NuPrime IDA-16; a 200 watt dac/integrated. It was a lot easier on the budget. I am very happy with it. Sometime in the future I would like to revisit the P5/A21 combo. Cheers, Scott
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I have Bryston SST2's on my 800D2's and 802D2's with a SST powering the HTM2D2. Clean, dynamic, powerful, I couldn't ask for anything better.
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Two weeks ago i auditioned the 800D3 and 802D3 with an expensive McIntosh first.
It was nice and... Had some... Hmmm. Authority. Know what i mean? But it was WAY to warm for my old ears. And not really impressive at all (Wadia-CD-Player directly via XLR). Then we switched to a newer Pass-Amp. Wow! Way better. Way more open. Tighter bass than Mc, but always right and deep enough. You can hear more details. It's just that: Clean. At home it's paired with a german Nubert NuPower A. OK, the page is in german, but the technical data can be read: https://www.nubert.de/nupower-a/p2635/?category=225 Can be compared with PowerAmps costing three times the money. Big recommendation for the budget. |
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I have listened to the B&W 803 D3 with the Esoteric C0-3Xs (Pre amp) and S-03 (power amp). Beautifull.
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I didn't wrote it down, but the two IA were in the 10k and 12k$-region and really burnt in at one of the dealers Listening Room.
Cables were Audioquest Wind and Aspen.
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Hmmm ... It is quite possible that the autoformer taps chosen on the Mc were wrong for the speakers.
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So, Mcs can really sound "brilliant"? Hmmm. If the answer is yes, i'll rethink what to buy next year.
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