Warning - Don't Start a Thread with the Word 'Blimey': Topic - The PS555DR

The Strat (Fender) posted:

NigelB - I have no doubt as to what the 555PSU has brought in terms of improvement indeed I have just experienced something similar with changing the PSU on the Roksan.   But I think on something more important when you refer to how it all gels together - synergy is everything.  

So just to stir things up a little you give Reference to the size limitations of your listening area.   I therefore predict you ain’t heard nothing yet - just wait until the 707s arrive

Unfortunately the 707s are out of the question cost grounds alone. Maybe 606s sometime down the road when we have moved to a place with a bigger listening room which will hopefully happen in the not to distant future. But I still have a lot of negotiating (at home) to swing the 555. So I am not getting ahead of myself. 

I think what you say about synergy is spot on and I feel I have just removed a massive weak link that is now allowing all my component to work together so much better.

Haim Ronen posted:

I think that says it all:

I have it on good authority that fish don’t have feelings. 

The Strat (Fender) posted:

I have it on good authority that fish don’t have feelings. 

Is that good authority by any chance coarse fishers who fish for sport and return the fish to the water after catching?

I thought I had it on good authority many years ago that fish do not have memories, but that is clearly wrong.

The Orca would have to be:

NDS / 2 x 555; 552 / 555, SNAXO / SC; 3 x 500s

Not quite the heaviest thing out there (that's the Statement), but not that far off, however it's rather more temperamental, and also very fast.

Huge posted:

The Orca would have to be:

NDS / 2 x 555; 552 / 555, SNAXO / SC; 3 x 500s

Not quite the heaviest thing out there (that's the Statement), but not that far off, however it's rather more temperamental, and also very fast.

If you substitute the 552 for a S1 you have the dorsal fin and the black and white. The 552 can't use a 555ps anyway. (have I pitched my analysis at the right level?)

The Strat (Fender) posted:

Haim Ronen posted:

I think that says it all:

I have it on good authority that fish don’t have feelings. 

I have it on good authority that fish and audiophiles have very similar brains.

Whenever I hear the descriptors unforced, composed, natural, relaxed, control to describe a style of presentation from a hi fi system I usually yawn and think how boring. I want excitement, something that is impressive and blows your socks off. Don't I?

Well it seems I don't after the introduction of the 555DR on my NDS. Don't get me wrong this source pairing will wack you around the head when the music calls for it. But constant on-the-edge-of-your seat thrill seeking gets fatiguing and isn't always faithful to artists' intentions. When the goods are delivered on a plate without drama in a beautiful relaxed and natural way it is thrilling or rather a better word is enthralling. And now I seem want enthralling more than thrilling, possibly because I am becoming an old git, possibly because my taste in presentation of music is maturing. Who knows?

What I do know is I love what the 555DR has done. I am at this moment listening to one of my favourite albums, Kandace Springs' Soul Eyes. I have never heard these wonderful songs delivered with such expression, such intimacy. The music and lyrics just flow so naturally and each song means so much more. Yes, music is better conveyed and communicated to the listener and that is priceless in my book. I am able to relax more to music, possibly because there is less mental effort required to hear instruments, lyrics and the meaning of a songs is more obvious. As I have already said, it is all delivered on a plate with no (or rather less) effort needed by the listener.

Excitement now seems a little overrated. Now, time for a Horlicks and an early night.

Nicely put Nigel, but what’s with the early night? I think 552 needed 

nigelb posted:

Whenever I hear the descriptors unforced, composed, natural, relaxed, control to describe a style of presentation from a hi fi system I usually yawn and think how boring. I want excitement, something that is impressive and blows your socks off. Don't I?

Well it seems I don't after the introduction of the 555DR on my NDS. Don't get me wrong this source pairing will wack you around the head when the music calls for it. But constant on-the-edge-of-your seat thrill seeking gets fatiguing and isn't always faithful to artists' intentions. When the goods are delivered on a plate without drama in a beautiful relaxed and natural way it is thrilling or rather a better word is enthralling. And now I seem want enthralling more than thrilling, possibly because I am becoming an old git, possibly because my taste in presentation of music is maturing. Who knows?

What I do know is I love what the 555DR has done. I am at this moment listening to one of my favourite albums, Kandace Springs' Soul Eyes. I have never heard these wonderful songs delivered with such expression, such intimacy. The music and lyrics just flow so naturally and each song means so much more. Yes, music is better conveyed and communicated to the listener and that is priceless in my book. I am able to relax more to music, possibly because there is less mental effort required to hear instruments, lyrics and the meaning of a songs is more obvious. As I have already said, it is all delivered on a plate with no (or rather less) effort needed by the listener.

Excitement now seems a little overrated. Now, time for a Horlicks and an early night.

Yes Nigel, well described. The 555DR has made the music just flow more naturally. I was thinking the other day that my setup is not that "impressive" in a traditional hifi way. I guess a non hifi orientated person listening to it may not be that "impressed", but I treasure that relaxed and articulate presentation.

You are very kind Atherton and Nigel -B. But I will take a pass, I have more important fish to fry!

Exactly so. You don’t want impressive. You want something that sounds real, and something that engages you and stirs your soul. My 555 is running in nicely and the music is just so much more engaging than before. Source upgrades do that. No amount of power amps and speakers can add what isn’t there in the first place. 

HH - true but a less than capable speaker can trap in what should flow from that source

Dear Forumites,

Alas, it is time to bring this Blimey thread to a close for the following reasons:

1. It is traditional now that Blimey threads are closed at a judicious point in time before they become too weird and so they can pass into the hereafter with their dignity intact (possibly a bit too that for this thread).
2. Kiwi Cat has politely declined the mantle of King Fish that he so richly deserves so it appears the fish/hi fi anaology game has come to a natural end. (Yippee I hear some of you cry). In the immortal words of Brucey....'Good Game, Good Game.....Not Easy'.
3. There is now a new Blimey kid on the block. GraemeH has just got himself a 555 and is sticking on his 272 as we speak. So it seems appropriate that we focus on his findings.
4. Like HH before me, I have pretty well described the key revelations the 555 has brought to my system and to my listening pleasure.
5. Some of the natives are getting restless and have already made it clear that this thread should have been moved to the wilderness that is the dreaded Padded Cell.

So Richard, in time honoured fashion, please would you kindly close this Blimey thread so that the new Blimey thread can flourish.

Thanks to those who have contributed.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Nigel, of course, no problem.  Thread closed.