Hi Chris, JA200 are quite fine, especially if you can get them at reasonable price. Unfortunately I had significant problem with humming and RFI problem with Jadis in my apartment that I could not fix. Sonic wise, the newer push pull amp like Ayon has more detail, more open, bass is tighter but Jadis has really nice, rich tubey sound. I heard Siegfried in my friend's system briefly when he was auditioning it and heard a few other VTL in various but not familiar systems. Honestly I am not a big fan of what I heard so far but to be fair, I have not done extensive listening in familiar system to give a proper opinion. On the other hand, what I heard did not make me interested enough to want to audition it properly.
Hi Suteetat Can give some advise to Jadis JA200 you had before, i guess Lamm must be better. Jadis JA200 seem no one is buying the amps had been listed for quite awhile, i guess VTL siegfried is a better buy. Anyone have any good experience with VTL siegfried. Chris
It was a lot of fun meeting you, Pradeep. I really had a good time and wish we had more time together. I will update the system pictures again once everything is settled. Still waiting to hear Ayon SET amps first before deciding on Orthos vs SET.
I am by no mean an expert on classical music but enjoy listening to it very much. Audiophile classical LP is tough. I tend to go by music that I like first then performance second and sound quality last. There are many famous Decca/Living Stereo Lp that are well known sonic wise but I don't really care much about the music itself. I guess a good place to start is the Royal Ballet Gala, Classic Recording 45rpm boxset is excellent if you can find it. Easy one to find now would be Sony Lang Lang's Prokofiev piano concerto No3 with Berlin Philharmonic/Sir Simon Rattle. I have not heard the accompanying Bartok's disc LP yet but Prokofiev is Lang Lang's strong suit and you don't have to put up with his visual aspect listening to the LP :) David Oistrakh Beethoven violin concerto is really good. The reissue is excellent, may be not quite as good as the first pressing that will cost an arm and a leg but I found the reissue quite satisfying. Beethoven's symphonies cycle by Paavo Jarvi ( I played for you a bit of No 9th 2nd movement) is really good. Ivan Moravec's Chopins LP, espeically his Ballades and Nocturnes on Connoisseur Society label is well worth looking out for. A clean copy usually will show up on Ebay regularly.Testament reissue of Maria Callas' Puccini's Tosca is excellent. I don't have the original Columbia pressing to compare but if other Callas' first Columbia pressing are similar in quality, I would say the Testament is better. If you play it on mono cartridge, it is quite incredible sonically. Tacet has many of the more accessible and familiar classical work in their catalogue. The sound is always excellent but kind of average as far as performance is concerned, very warm, mellow sounding LP, very easy to listen to. I heard a bit of Stockfisch label recording of Chopin Nocturens by Gergely Boganyi, Really like what I heard, excellent sound and pretty respectable intepretation on a couple of numbers that I heard. My local store has not brought in this particular recording yet but I will definitely order the LP when I next order from Stockfisch.
I had the pleasure of listening to Suteetat's system in his Bangkok condo a few days back. It truly is a world class system, assembled with great affection and meticulous attention to detail. The system pics do no justice as Suteetat has just finished a major system overhaul with Eventus speakers and Ayon amps with the KT 150s. Our listening session was way too short and barely did justice to am impressive LP collection. I have requested Suteetat to compile a list of must have top 10 classical audiophile LPs given his breadth of knowledge of classical music. Congrats on a superb achievement and keep the vinyl spinning Pradeep
Yes, a friend of mine brought his motor over to my place one day. It was really difficult to return the motor to my friend and waited until my motor arrived.
Jeff C. was able to drop of the unit this summer, I was completely floored with it sound. I should have the new motor by the end of the year, it will be fun.
Suteetat: Thanks for you info. I am going to upgrade to the BN feet and my new BN motor will be here shortly. My TT is using the Stilpoint OEM feet. Cheers!
Zermatt, I have not experimented with other feet on TW so far beside trying Magico Q-Pod which does not seems to work well with TW (but work wonders on my Playback MPS-5). I used Symposium Ultra platform in the past with pretty good result but now have Minus-K under TW which is a major upgrade. I am not sure if other feet would add much more at this point.
Pradeep, I was told about 4-6 weeks according to my local dealer. It supposes to arrive at the same time with my friend's Raven AC also with upgrade platter, 3 motors, BN controller. So I shall keep my fingers' cross and let know if everything will arrive in time before your arrival here. I will be busy the weekend of Dec 7-8 and 14-15 but otherwise I should be quite free.
Downunder, it is a bit difficult to compare the two since I never tried mounting FR64s and Koetsu Coralstone on my TW so it is hard to compare. I used to have FR/Koetsu on BL-111 and SX-777 is a major upgrade. But basically my TW/Reed/Lyra is a better all around performer than SX-777/FR/Koetsu. The Micro Seiki setup really excels at vocal reproduction and that's what I used it mainly for. May be that is more because of Koetsu though.
Sam, thanks for the compliment. Now everything is pretty much settled and I don't have much urge to make any major changes to my system, except for adding a mono cartridge for some of my mono LPs.
Musicpdx, I first heard Lamm when I was still a student. If I am not mistaken, the first time Chicago Summer CES opened its door to public as well, most of the high end show was at Chicago Hilton. I remembered walking into a room that had a Wilson Watt/Puppy and an amp that was unknown to me and it made such an impression. I think that was also the year that Lamm made its debut. Since then, I hope one day I would own one and it took about 20 years before I finally could afford one :)
Aesthetix is definitely more neutral, more detail, very natural presentation. Lamm is darker, more full body, lusher presentation with excellent bass extension and slamm. The sound is a bit more forward than Aesthetix but never aggressive. I am still experimenting with various tubes for Aesthetix right now. If I can maintain its natural presentation and detail while gaining a bit more body, a bit more meat in the midrange, it would be perfect.
Hi, saw on another thread u have a aesthetix io eclipse now. Any comments compared to your lamm? I am also running my lyra atlas via a SUT (ear mc4) and finf it to be wonderful combo with my nagra vps. Thanks in advance...
I am very impressed with Micro Seiki. However, I have not heard the 5000 or 8000 series. A friend has BL-777 that is also very nice. Considering the price of BL-111/FR64s, it certainly competes well and often better new turntables at the same price point for sure. Hope you enjoy your Q3, personally I don't think I could find anything that I like better unless I really have to spend much much more than what I did for Q3.
Hi. Great system congrats ! Having owned several Micro tt´s I only can say Micro really knows how to build state-of-the art tables that put shame on some current so calles reference grade models (I had BL-111, SX-5000 and SX-777 FV and it was always a pleasure with these tables). Just have bought Q3´s as well...
