Hi Jaxwired, I have Primaluna Prologue preamp and considering buying a power amp. My shortlist is: Bel Canto REF500M mono block (used) Wyred 4 Sound ST500 MKII Wyred 4 Sound SX 1000 Among these 3 which one do you recommend? I read your topic about the ST 1000 MKII however I dont have the budget to buy it brand new. Could you please give me some opinions/advice. Many thanks
Jaxwired, Saw your video of the new PMC Fact.8 loudspeakers. How do you like these compared to the older PMC? What other loudspeakers did you compare them with, before settling down with these?
System edited: New house...new room...dual purpose now. Two separate systems. KEF E305 / NAD / 70" Sharp for home theater. PMC / PrimaLuna / Wyred4Sound for 2 channel music.
As you say, the distance is greatly distorted. I'm using an ultra wide angle (fisheye) lens to get the entire room in one pic. The wider angle a lens has the greater distances are exaggerated. My entire room is only 17.5' deep. My ears are only about 10' from the face of the speakers. : )
Jaxwired, I admire the tidy nature of your room; kudos on a clean system!
I'm sure the room pic distorts the perception of the distance but I'm curious how far you sit from the speakers. In the pic it looks like a loooooong way, but I'm guessing you are about 15 feet away? Ever tried a near(er) field setup with speakers placed wider, and toed in? You might have fun with that. Looks like the speakers and chair is movable easily enough; it could be fun with minimal effort.
Have always loved the simplicity of your system and clean looks of your audio rack. Looks like a simple IKEA tv stand in white. I was actually thinking of getting 2 of the same tv stands myself, making taller legs for the 2nd one and putting one on top of the other. My system has been a huge work in progress lately with a different old school system in my bedroom and much different fleawatt system in the LR which has yet to be updated on a'gon but hope to get around to it very soon once I reconfigure a few things. Will keep you posted. Enjoy :)
Well, I owned some PMC OB1i's in the past and I loved them and always regretted selling them. The dynaudio line of speakers are all superb but ultimately I enjoy my music a smidge more with the PMCs. Love these speakers so much I've considered chucking the shipping boxes. That's saying a lot for a habitual box swapper like me. Had these for about six months now and still thrilled.
Yes, in the first pic you can see a small black box on the bottom shelf. That's a computer running windows 8. It is fanless with a low heat motherboard. It has an internal solid state 500Gb hard drive. There are no moving parts in the box, completely silent. There is a xonar STX sound card installed which provides spdif coax output from the computer to my DAC.