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Hello All
Finally after much debate I am going to sort my house out , unfortunately being a Architect / Builder that means I am on builder time which means I like to think and budget for a certain time scale and budget ! but know if i think it will take 1 year rest assured it will take 2.
Unfortunately this means I have had to pack my main system up ..Valve amp ,LP12 ect and retreat to my small study which has my smaller kit in , consisting of a Rega P3 , Lyngdorf 1120 and Dynaudio M10 speakers with Dynaudio stand 10 stands , this system will now become my main source for music .
Hence the purchase of the 1120 because the room is small so an all in one takes up less space and replaces my icon audio stereo 40 + Streamer . And of course I wanted to try out a Lyngdorf to see if all the fuss as regards RP was justified!
I would like to stress that this of course is simple the experience of someone who enjoys good music.
Anyway the 1120 arrived I hooked it up not knowing what to expect and the sound was pretty good using tidal connect …the speakers were in the classic dyna position of away from the wall and toed in , this was without using RP … I then decided to setup the mic and test RP I went through the setup and got to 98% after 6 mic placements , the sound definitely improved with RP , tighter bass and slightly smoother delivery . The next experiment was to place the speakers up against the wall , with rear ports I allowed 8cm as opposed to Lyngdorfs recommended 5cm so this was pretty much the way Lyngdorf recommends speaker placement as regards making the best use of RP… I did another focus point and again 6 radom mic positions so managed 98% again , first test was in bypass mode so no RP , as expected much more bass but quite uncontrolled and quite a bit of bass bloom . The revelation was switching over to RP suddenly the bass tightened right up and the emits sounded better than they ever had with the mid range fully in tacked and a sweet treble, but what was really good was the wonderful controlled bass !.
This was all with Tidal connect !. It was then time to hook up the P3 as expected the onboard Phonostage was perfectly useable but I was used to sounding better and this sounded thin and light . But this lead to the secound revelation I am aware that the analog signal is converted to digital then back to analog as it leaves the amp to the speakers so was not expecting much even hooking up my Tube 2 semi valve phono stage ! but I was in for a surprise as the transformation with my phono stage was huge in fact I thought the 1120 actually sounded as good as the stereo 40 , and Tube 2 phonostage … it simple sounded like vinyl.
I really am knocked out by this sweet little unit , well built , typical scandi style… and with RP sounds wonderful … in fact so much so that once the house is sorted I am going to try a Lyngdorf 3400 as the space will be considerably bigger , and that may allow me to finally hugely reduce the box count .
As regards the immediate future though as I will be using this small system and judging by the 1120 performance I have decided to upgrade my P3 with exact …to a P6 Aria , and upgrade my Dynaudio emit M10 speakers , the room is very small 2.3m x 4.0m so it can only accommodate small stand mount speakers .
the short list is the Dynaudio evoke 10 , and the Dali minuet SE .
If anyone has experience of these speakers that would be great or indeed any other recommendations?.
Finally after much debate I am going to sort my house out , unfortunately being a Architect / Builder that means I am on builder time which means I like to think and budget for a certain time scale and budget ! but know if i think it will take 1 year rest assured it will take 2.
Unfortunately this means I have had to pack my main system up ..Valve amp ,LP12 ect and retreat to my small study which has my smaller kit in , consisting of a Rega P3 , Lyngdorf 1120 and Dynaudio M10 speakers with Dynaudio stand 10 stands , this system will now become my main source for music .
Hence the purchase of the 1120 because the room is small so an all in one takes up less space and replaces my icon audio stereo 40 + Streamer . And of course I wanted to try out a Lyngdorf to see if all the fuss as regards RP was justified!
I would like to stress that this of course is simple the experience of someone who enjoys good music.
Anyway the 1120 arrived I hooked it up not knowing what to expect and the sound was pretty good using tidal connect …the speakers were in the classic dyna position of away from the wall and toed in , this was without using RP … I then decided to setup the mic and test RP I went through the setup and got to 98% after 6 mic placements , the sound definitely improved with RP , tighter bass and slightly smoother delivery . The next experiment was to place the speakers up against the wall , with rear ports I allowed 8cm as opposed to Lyngdorfs recommended 5cm so this was pretty much the way Lyngdorf recommends speaker placement as regards making the best use of RP… I did another focus point and again 6 radom mic positions so managed 98% again , first test was in bypass mode so no RP , as expected much more bass but quite uncontrolled and quite a bit of bass bloom . The revelation was switching over to RP suddenly the bass tightened right up and the emits sounded better than they ever had with the mid range fully in tacked and a sweet treble, but what was really good was the wonderful controlled bass !.
This was all with Tidal connect !. It was then time to hook up the P3 as expected the onboard Phonostage was perfectly useable but I was used to sounding better and this sounded thin and light . But this lead to the secound revelation I am aware that the analog signal is converted to digital then back to analog as it leaves the amp to the speakers so was not expecting much even hooking up my Tube 2 semi valve phono stage ! but I was in for a surprise as the transformation with my phono stage was huge in fact I thought the 1120 actually sounded as good as the stereo 40 , and Tube 2 phonostage … it simple sounded like vinyl.
I really am knocked out by this sweet little unit , well built , typical scandi style… and with RP sounds wonderful … in fact so much so that once the house is sorted I am going to try a Lyngdorf 3400 as the space will be considerably bigger , and that may allow me to finally hugely reduce the box count .
As regards the immediate future though as I will be using this small system and judging by the 1120 performance I have decided to upgrade my P3 with exact …to a P6 Aria , and upgrade my Dynaudio emit M10 speakers , the room is very small 2.3m x 4.0m so it can only accommodate small stand mount speakers .
the short list is the Dynaudio evoke 10 , and the Dali minuet SE .
If anyone has experience of these speakers that would be great or indeed any other recommendations?.
