Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Thanks for the info. Sounds pretty simple.

Ha! That particular one is a bit dodgy looking but their whole grey thing is a bit marmite anyway...

It's free BRO. It just needs a loving home and maybe a forklift truck to carry it.

I'll check its functioning properly first, open it up and check the capacitors (which were totally fine a few years ago) but it should be sweet. The remote should be somewhere too.

TURBODIBS!
Will have to help me stealth it in past the OH :-)

Good luck with that! It's in west London near Maida Vale... I'll PM you.

..googles specs... Weight: 15kg
Mother of God.
Was thinking of cycling home with it.
Perhaps new plan required

Q acoustics 3050s and arcam a19, I think I may have to add a power stage as not filling the 17 x 30 listening room, which will probably mean a step up in speakers..

these perhaps > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201495066012?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

"Bloody hell they ain't cheap"

I've saved hard for them and sold a few things (like a motorbike) and a pair of MLTL's , but yeah, they'll be the most expensive I've ever owned/built/played with. Also probably the smallest. Right tool for the right job.

Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to sound like there was anything wrong with spending that kind of money on speakers. If I had a clue and wasn't tone deaf I'd love to invest in more Hifi gear. Good luck with the build!

No prob's matey, it didn't come across as that. It's only since the kids have grown up (unlike me!) and moved away that I've been able to convert the house into a Museum for Audiophiles of sorts :)

^Sheesh, I must have issues if i think that's not much at all, been reading too many reviews of esoteric HiFi. Just looks like a good project to me! And, if made well they'll last for ages and provide years of listening pleasure.

Brag-mode.... I only do well-made. checks and polishes nails :)

Thats a fib BTW, some of my amp builds have been great RF Oscillators.

ha. I've never been brave enough to tackle electronics - actually, I once did and it turned my cars stereo into a great smoke machine... once i'd sorted the power cable the only sound it would produce was a whine that went up and down with the engine revs.

I can do nice woodwork though.

I like nice woodwork , I've been slowly learning how to do it over the last 10 years of speaker tweaking. These in the piccie below have been the most fulfilling to date but all the clever work is inside the cab and no-one gets to see it except bass-lovin' spiders I'd imagine.

hmm, nice woodwork?

from > http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/primaluce_e.html

Wow.

New to this section so this has probably been covered already;

Excited for the rerun of Technics SL1200's :)

That is amazing - I wonder how the bass ever found it's way out

Ta! It took all 2 weeks of my Christmas Hols to do a few years ago, 2009, I just checked.

I only feed them with 'feisty bass' tunes capable of traversing the ports! They look like this with their clothes and shoes on.

Really cool. How do they sound?

stupendous

Bluddy terrible.

Arf! They're the most bouncy dynamic Speaker I've ever owned/had in my house. I've transported them to various places to listen to them with other like-minded shed-bound sawdust junkies and in large rooms with solid floors they can sound awethumne (IMO). They're very very fast in the bass due to the saucy 4" driver with not too much mass to shift I'd imagine, the magnet is almost as large as the cone area on these. They're not perfect, there is a horn 'sound' which is Marmite to many. Personally I love 'em, however... since a room reshuffle at home resulting in a lowered ceiling height they don't live in the Lounge anymore, I have them in a smallish 'workroom'/guest bedroom where they function as the worlds largest pair of headphones, the closer you sit to them the more the port output dominates but its a very big (no kidding) 'sound' and the sound-staging is amazing on them. I treated them to some uber-tweaked drivers a while back.

Magnets. I know they get the blame for a lot of stuff on this forum but really.... 'magnets'!

Ta! Its a good fun hobby/obsession.