I just picked me up some toys too. An Electrocompaniet AW220 power amp and a Lector CDP7TL cd player. There will be some rockin at the bears den tonight.
Congrats Tim.... don't forget the MBL stuff
I'm in cash-accumulation mode for the next few months (if I could just STOP buying CDs...
) and am looking at the Ayre CX-5e MP next.
It has HEFTY dual power supplies with double regulation (...double secret probation???), bitch'n discrete analog output stage and what I feel to be the most important improvement to digital these days...DSP filtering...using a method providing results similar to what Meridian gets from their new 808.2.
Looking at the latest Stereophool, the post-ringing measurements on the Meridian are actually larger than what Ayre shows in their White Paper >>>
http://www.ayre.com/pdf/Ayre_MP_White_Paper.pdfThe cats over on the meridian-unplugged forum are naysaying the possibility Ayre has outdone Meridian and I'll hold off judgement until JA measures WPs upgraded model.
I'll be in touch on the big screen...and I also just got a japanese import of Sun Ra's "COSMOS" so I'll drop by sometime and let you listen