mjcmt - Wow! Incredibly surprised to see a response to this post from 2007!

jason_b June 08, 2021 03:19

SYSTEM UPDATE: I have moved the 805's to a secondary system and have sold the older CD 306 SACD and purchased the new CD 306 SACD Professional Version. Pics to come...

jason_b May 16, 2008 16:50

Excellent choice Joey! Please let me know how it turns out and how you like the 05. I have found nothing that beats it!

jason_b May 16, 2008 16:43

Amfibius: Sorry it has taken me this long to check this thread. I actually am not biamping. I have both the 805's and 211's and use them independantly of one another. Sometimes I am in the mood to hear a few jazz recordings played in only a way that the 805's can do, so I'll switch the speaker cables over to the 805's.

It would certainly be possible, however, to connect both amps to the SLP 05 at the same time. The SLP 05 has both singled ended and balanced outputs, so you would connect the balanced the the 211's and the single ended to the 805's.

I have done some tube rolling, but haven't found anything that truly blows me away from what they come with. The WE 300b are very nice in this setup though as is the internally braced 845b's.

jason_b May 16, 2008 16:42

Keyarae: Again, I apologize to everyone for abandoning this thread. The CD 303/300 is a fantastic CD player. the ability to switch, on the fly, between the tube and solid state output as well as possesing the ability to switch between sample rates on the fly, truly makes this a unique player. The CD 303/300 sounds great out of the box, but really needs about 400 hours before it is truly broken in.

jason_b May 16, 2008 16:31

Jadevision: I apologize for not paying attention to this thread for so long and hopefully you will get this. With the 211's compared to the 805's there are really such different amplifiers. The 805's are, of course, an SET design. They are the most musical single ended amplifiers I have personally heard. They are as sweet and detailed and oh so musical. The 211's, on the other hand, have all of the slam that only a push-pull amp using 845's could provide. Plenty of detail and musical warmth with excellent bass reproduction. Very punchy without being bloated.

jason_b May 16, 2008 16:28

Thanks for all of the kind words guys. Joey: I had the 303/300 first, then got the 306 a little while later. I just didn't see a need to sell the 303/300. I am moving soon and will be splitting the two systmes into two seperate listening rooms. The CD 306 SACD will go with the SLP 05 and 211's and the 303/300 will go with a SLP 98 and the 805's.

jason_b March 24, 2007 19:58

Thanks. The Cary sound is hard to beat!

jason_b March 23, 2007 21:25