Meridian 506.24 vs Sonic Frontiers SFCD-1

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On 23 Sep 2004 00:39:42 GMT, lgarofalo@hotmail.com (Dogday) wrote:

>Hi everybody,
>
>would like to have some opinions about mi idea of changing
>my meridian 506.24 with a Sonic Frontiers SFCD-1.
>
>My sistem is
>
>Audio Note PreampKit
>Audio Note P3 (Single Ended 300B)
>Supra EFF-I Interconnect Cable
>Audio Note AN-V Intercoonect Cable
>Sonus Faber Gran Piano Home
>
>Does anybody have direct experience with the two players ?

There would seem little point in discussing the *extremely* subtle
differences which *may* exist between those two excellent players,
when you have such a singularly incapable amplifier, the colourations
from which will completely dominate your system!
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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On 24 Sep 2004 15:50:14 GMT, lgarofalo@hotmail.com (Dogday) wrote:

>Stewart, any bad experience with the p3 ?

Sure, it's an *8-watt* SET amp (and that's only into an 8-ohm load),
hence fundamentally unsuited to driving Grand Pianos.

Get a decent 60-200 watt SS amp, and then think about CD players, if
you absolutely must! Personally, I doubt if there's *any* CD player
which will sound more accurate than the 506.24, although there are
certainly a few which will sound *different*.

>> >Hi everybody,
>> >
>> >would like to have some opinions about mi idea of changing
>> >my meridian 506.24 with a Sonic Frontiers SFCD-1.
>> >
>> >My sistem is
>> >
>> >Audio Note PreampKit
>> >Audio Note P3 (Single Ended 300B)
>> >Supra EFF-I Interconnect Cable
>> >Audio Note AN-V Intercoonect Cable
>> >Sonus Faber Gran Piano Home
>> >
>> >Does anybody have direct experience with the two players ?
>>
>> There would seem little point in discussing the *extremely* subtle
>> differences which *may* exist between those two excellent players,
>> when you have such a singularly incapable amplifier, the colourations
>> from which will completely dominate your system!

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering