Classe CP-800 users?

[mbovaird]

Originally Posted by dca

Hello, I must admit I'm a bit lost about your opinion about the CP-800, as on the first page of this same thread you wrote :

"Bill - I owned this for 3 months and sold it. Purchase price was $3800 (new). It sounded too mechanical to my liking. I liked the functionality, but not the sound."

and

"Admittedly, the CP-800 certainly gives you a lot of candy for money. Hard to beat...and everything worked flawlessly when I had it. I just couldn't get use to the sound. Sorry...but that was just me."

For someone reading the whole thread it gives the impression the you started to kind of dislike the CP-800 so much that you sold it but now it's just the opposite.
Did you changed your mind lately, and is so why ?

Synergy. Paired with the matching Classe amp the second time around, the combo sounds great. I also didn't give it 200 hours to break in the first time around - so that could have been part of it. I had Mc amps and Magnepan speakers the first time around and didn't like the combo. If I had allowed it to break in, then maybe the result would have been different. Maybe.

There are no absolutes. Synergy is so crucial.

Hope that explains things.

Mike