Hi Wikeeboy.
The 800 with Wilson Audio Yvette's blew me away then I listened to the 900 also with Yvette's and that was even better. The jump from the 400 to the 800 was big but the jump from 800 to 900 not as big, albeit still impressive.
Other products I demo'd where the Constellation Inspiration Pre and Stereo and also a rnage of McIntosh products. All discounted as I really liked the idea of a simple pre/power set up with built in DA and phono stage.
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We have just hooked up our demonstration 1000 Pro. Running it in with dCS Vivaldi and Wilson Audio Alexia!
Will keep you posted on how it sounds :-)
We also still have the Original d'Atelier (which has now been upgraded to 1000w) in stock if anyone is looking for a limited edition piece!
(03-Aug-2016, 13:01)kjwestone Wrote: [ -> ]
We have just hooked up our demonstration 1000 Pro. Running it in with dCS Vivaldi and Wilson Audio Alexia!
Will keep you posted on how it sounds :-)
We also still have the Original d'Atelier (which has now been upgraded to 1000w) in stock if anyone is looking for a limited edition piece!
Is there any difference in SQ between them?
(03-Aug-2016, 13:01)kjwestone Wrote: [ -> ]We also still have the Original d'Atelier (which has now been upgraded to 1000w) in stock if anyone is looking for a limited edition piece!
Nice looking setup. Are you using analogue out of Vivaldi?
Think the OdA might be a bit of a hard sell now....
£45K to send an analogue signal to a Devialet? Probably not the optimum SQ/£ option? I would be interested in what it sounds like though, and if you are a dealer with all this kit in the shop, why not give it a go!
I do recall that the dCS Vivaldi feeding a Devialet upsampled / reclocked DSD digitally did sound most excellent at the OAC demo, on that occasion for a much cheaper £24k.
(03-Aug-2016, 13:01)kjwestone Wrote: [ -> ]
We have just hooked up our demonstration 1000 Pro. Running it in with dCS Vivaldi and Wilson Audio Alexia!
Will keep you posted on how it sounds :-)
We also still have the Original d'Atelier (which has now been upgraded to 1000w) in stock if anyone is looking for a limited edition piece!
Very nice set-up and demo room KJ. Are you having a shoot-out with the 1000Pro vs the Naim wardrobe and the DCS multipack stack? Would be a good test of the 1000s dac and amplification credentials - it
shouldn't win but if it does then whoops! Nice to see you using Artesina supports - pity about the crack on the left hand one - did Pedro install it ?
(04-Aug-2016, 09:44)KIBM Wrote: [ -> ]Are you having a shoot-out with the 1000Pro vs the Naim wardrobe and the DCS multipack stack? Would be a good test of the 1000s dac and amplification credentials
Cracking idea! A few of us should go, could be great fun
Guillaume
(04-Aug-2016, 09:44)KIBM Wrote: [ -> ]Very nice set-up and demo room KJ. Are you having a shoot-out with the 1000Pro vs the Naim wardrobe and the DCS multipack stack? Would be a good test of the 1000s dac and amplification credentials - it shouldn't win but if it does then whoops! Nice to see you using Artesina supports - pity about the crack on the left hand one - did Pedro install it ?
Sorry to be pedantic but it is the forthcoming nine box Naim Statement Pros which will each be the size of a wardrobe.
These Naim Statements are each merely the size of a gymnasium locker and if you opt for the Naim Statement + they add in the locker room smell.
A friend of mines girlfriends sisters brother heard the Statement+ and said it wasnt bad for the money. (Unofficial but should be in the region of £8 million but Statement 'standard' owners get a £200 discount if Naim can have their existing model back - just the cases, you can keep the electronics). They're taking deposits of £2million to secure your place in the line. They're just putting the final touches on the design to a few bits and bobs but you can have the remote control now (batteries included!) and at the appropriate point in 2018 (assuming you're not in jail for insider dealing or other embezzlement), you can have the rest. They strongly recommended you immediately chuck the supplied psu's in the bin though, and upgrade to the nineteen piece Statement Unimaginably Constant Kilowatt Energiser Reservoir (SUCKER for short) which really brings out its true potential. Well, once you've popped in the aftermarket pucks obvs.
When an amplifier comes up to the chest of a pair of Alexia's you just know that it's time to move house - for space and/or divorce reasons.
I thought my old Krell FPB 400 was a lump but this looks like three lumps stuck together!
Only heard the dCS stack at recent shows and through unfamiliar electronics and speakers. Had the Elgar DAC in my system about 10 years ago for a demo - it was extremely good - natural, unforced yet extremely revealing digital - just could not afford it at the time.
Just to power up the dCS stack would use all the sockets on my PS Powerplant! (why 4 boxes? transport, dac - what else? upsampler? dual mono dacs?)
After Devialet I could never go back to all the boxes, interconnects, power cables and supports required to run a full 'old school' system.