ET5 arrives!

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Originally Posted by Rayooo

was a very happy Magnepan 3.6 person up until January this year, then I hear mention of 3.7. Well, that started a spiral of sorts. Ordered the 3.7s in January and they just showed up two weeks ago.

it was only a couple months back I'd heard of the ET-5. I'm a relatively new CJ person, 'had a classic and ET3, liked them both very much!

I guess about a year ago I did an experiment whereas I purchased a W4S DAC-2 and began experimenting with FLAC playback via J-River, Kernel streaming to the DAC. The experiment was a fantastic success and thus it basically put my Marantz SA11S2 out of business.

So, sold the Marantz for pretty good $$, traded in old preamp and thus was able to swing the ET-5.

Power amp is Primare A32, I seem to be the only person on the planet who owns one. it works will with the maggies & it's pretty good at simply passing along what's fed to it.

I've always been a proponent of having the pwr amp as neutral as possible and capable of driving whatever speakers are preferred...then tweaking the overall system sound with preamp. (in my case always tube based preamp!), cables, etc.

I guess in some respects both CJ and Maggies fall into "ya either love them or hate them". I absolutely positively love the combination, spent 10+ years finding it, but now have.

The ET5 is already making me smile only an hour or so in. wow, sorry for the rambling.

another CJ lover Rayooo it is great to meet you
thanks in advance for keeping us updated about the ET5 break in
Philippe