The Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 300 has a rare Stage 3 upgrade by John Sampson, which is as far as he takes them - sounds just awesome and plays everything with so much ease.
Newest addition is a T+A DAC 200 which I bought blind after crowd sourcing just about all the reviews on the internet. It is a Unit with a capital ‘U’! Everyone is right - these are incredible DACs and I don’t think I’ll ever want to part with it.
Trusty Lumin U1 Mini streamer which is rock solid, and is well supported on these forums. The firmware is constantly being updated, most recently to include Plex direct streaming which gives another option when choosing what to listen to (think Random Album radio amongst other things).
Finally - ATC SCM50PSL speakers from the late 80s, but sounding great after SL spec upgrades. These things are built to last and still blow the socks off many other speakers I have heard.
I had 50ASL speakers years ago, live close to ATC, went there and they did upgrade of drivers and gave me cufflinks while I waited, all free of charge.
Have a T+A Sacd/dac myself. They are good value as well as sounding excellent.
Yes, had a tour of the factory and they let me listen to some new speakers that were in development at the time. Not even magazine reviewers knew about them at the time.
Had to keep stum about them. Trying to remember the model number of them.
Might come to me at some point.
They were aluminium cabinets in a slimmer design than the usual range, (not professional range as far as I remember)tried to find them on site but cannot find them at all.
@Bob_Findlay
No , they were about 50a size in a grey aluminium cabinet, wider baffle than 50a but shallower depth… Pre any av stuff they did.
Found them, scm70asl 25th anniversary
Cannot find any pics though.
Just found this, no pic
I’ve got ATC’s but never had the chance to try T+A with them unfortunately. Only heard them at a show, many years ago, but I was really impressed. Great looking gear too.
I had a pair of SCM100ASL for years. I wanted to get them updated with the new tweeter (ATC’s own one) but that would have involved sending them back to ATC in the UK, which was cost prohibitive, so I sold them and got the new 50’s last year.
I always felt that I was sitting slightly too close to the 100’s to be fully phase coherent, so when I decided to get new speakers I went for the the 50’s.
What pre amp do you use?
Yes that would be a bit of a long trip to Stroud.
Going to the ATC factory is the only time I have gone on a road with a Pegasus crossing.
At the moment, I’m using the volume control on my Bricasti M1 (Series 2) DAC. I’m going to get some headphones soon, so I will be adding a Benchmark HPA4, which will also act as a line level preamp.
I could have a few holidays for that cost. Shipping anything out of NZ is expensive, but a pair of 100’s (one way) was going to be more expensive than a return flight for me.
Recently updated my setup: Cambridge CXN100 Streamer, Cambridge CXA61 Amplifier, Cambridge AXC35 CD Player, Old HP Micro PC (i7-6700T processor, 16GB Ram, 512GB SSD, Windows 10) Roon Server, CyberPower UPS for Power Conditioning, and a Asustor Flashtor 6 FS6706T - 6 Bay All-SSD NAS Storage, Quad Core 2.0GHz, Six M.2 SSD Slots, Dual 2.5GbE Ports, 4GB RAM DDR4, Computer Network Attached Storage (Diskless) loaded with 12TB (6 - 2TB Sticks) of SSD
Speakers are an older pair of DALI Mentor 1 bookshelf speakers.
Subwoofer is a really old Boston Acoustics (circa late 1990s).
