As per my previous thread, I have now received my Plinius amp, and it has been set up for about 45 minutes, just time enough to play parts of two CDs-
Loreena McKennitt "the Book of Secrets", and the Beegees  "This is Where I Came In".

all I can say is Woo Hoo!  Prat in spades, dynamics, fullness of tone, weight in the bass, smooth extended treble, and of course the all important midrange is very satisfying.  My housemate is even impressed and says it makes music much better than my previous amp.

even makes the Oppo 103 sound very good playing CDs!

havent played vinyl yet, looking forward to that.

replaced a venerable Linn Pretek/Powertek, which is no slouch, but like a lot of British amps, to my ears,  is a bit too laid back/polite for my taste

Well done brother, so after running her in for awhile how does she sound?

And the vinyl?

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May 28, 2017 14:36:52 GMT 12 deano1974 said:

Well done brother, so after running her in for awhile how does she sound?

And the vinyl?

Still very happy, mostly, except for vinyl.  Slowly getting to grips with the Dynavector P75/3, and while initially very happy, gradually getting the impression that the lovely smooth presentation, solid bass and extended highs while initially very impresssive, I am now not that pleased with the midrange.  Listening now is more  of an intellectual exercise - "yes, that note is perfect, the sound staging is great, strings etc smooth" and so on, but the emotion is lacking.

the Plinius still sounds great on CD, so I think I may be having a similar experience to cooksferry re the P75/3.  However I haven't played around with jumper settings yet - and won't be able to for a couple of weeks while I am in Ak - so will reserve judgement until I have altered some jumper settings. 

My benchmark remains the Plinius Jarrah.  An example - a few years back I started a new job in Ak, and shared a house with my sister.  We rented a large old villa in Mt Eden with two living rooms enabling me to set up my two chanel rig in the spare room.  After setting everything up - Linn LP 12 with Ittok arm, AT OC9 cart, Jarrah, Perreaux 200iP, Mission 753 Spkrs, i put on a record by the Cars to test things out.  As the music burst forth, the door was flung open and my sister and her partner burst into the room and started dancing.  The music was that catchy and rhythmic it could not be resisted!

I want that magicke back!

I feel your pain had the same issue for a few years then one day everything just worked

Thats after swapping cables, cartridges, playing with azimuth, alignment, speaker placement & litrally everything

You will get there brother dont go to crazy lol

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