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Post by dsjr on Feb 27, 2024 10:26:50 GMT
I'd only use 'metal' Type IV cassettes myself - takes a lot to get the signal on and a lot to erase it. Type II cassettes could go off a bit after a few years and plenty of playings. I ought to bring my old Denon 24HX (what a comedown after a good few top Naks in my time when cassette compilations mattered) to see if it still works...
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Post by André on Feb 27, 2024 10:37:02 GMT
I'd only use 'metal' Type IV cassettes myself - takes a lot to get the signal on and a lot to erase it. Type II cassettes could go off a bit after a few years and plenty of playings. I ought to bring my old Denon 24HX (what a comedown after a good few top Naks in my time when cassette compilations mattered) to see if it still works... I did a test a while back with a Ferric Chrome against a standard Chrome, you know i preferred the FeCr. Never liked Metals. Something else i noticed is some 70's tape machines sound better than 80's machines.
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Post by André on Feb 27, 2024 10:38:56 GMT
New Harbeth NLE speakers at Bristol. Are they like QUAD II remakes?
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Post by classicrock on Feb 27, 2024 10:59:49 GMT
New Harbeth NLE speakers at Bristol. Are they like QUAD II remakes? Yes.
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Post by classicrock on Feb 27, 2024 11:52:14 GMT
English Acoustics - Leak Stereo 20 / 30. They do any colour you want including multi colours.
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Post by André on Feb 27, 2024 12:01:03 GMT
English Acoustics - Leak Stereo 20 / 30. They do any colour you want including multi colours. Aye i like the red ones & even like the Yellow
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Post by classicrock on Feb 27, 2024 13:08:32 GMT
English Acoustics - Leak Stereo 20 / 30. They do any colour you want including multi colours. Aye i like the red ones & even like the Yellow To be honest far too pricey at £6 to 7K. Pearl Acoustics are doing a new UK built SE valve amp for around £8K (An SE that actually does bass as they demonstrated). It's got huge transformers that must cost a lot more to build. Seen with their single driver speakers. These aren't cheap but sound better than some of the £12K models I heard.
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Post by classicrock on Feb 27, 2024 13:14:44 GMT
These are the only speakers i listened to that are remotely in the 'affordable' category £999 I think - Super Denton.
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Post by André on Feb 27, 2024 15:48:04 GMT
Are those Aluminium units EJ JORDON?
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Post by classicrock on Feb 27, 2024 16:33:12 GMT
Are those Aluminium units EJ JORDON? Mark Audio driver.
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Post by classicrock on Feb 27, 2024 16:39:17 GMT
For DSJR ATC. I think these are floorstanding version of 50's but special version that cost over £20K.
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Post by classicrock on Feb 27, 2024 16:42:40 GMT
Chord room using ATC SCM40 with new integrated amp.
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Post by classicrock on Feb 27, 2024 16:56:28 GMT
Origin Live were using long discontinued AVI speakers. These sounded great (better than modern designs being played). Never heard them before. That Mo-Fi Bill Withers shown is a great sounding disc. Another to put on my wants list.
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Post by Westie on Feb 27, 2024 19:44:23 GMT
Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed seeing the pics.
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Post by dsjr on Feb 28, 2024 9:31:03 GMT
Thanks too from me. Those ATC's I thought were going to be over thirty grand They're going the high end route and looking at the Aston Down factory site, they've expanded again over the last ten years or so and it's a three building complex now - apparently their 25mk2 pro actives are selling with back orders on pro markets and of course the far east are lapping up all the three way 'towers' in fancy-foo veneers whether inferior passive or active form. I can't get ny head around the awful sounds Chord amps and their dems at shows too often seem to make. Passive ATC 50's are bad enough (compared to the active ones for genuine reasons to do with phase matching the mid dome to the bass driver) but when I heard a Chord system into these 50's at the Audio East show last year they sounded horrible and distorted too, but they played on (I had to walk out of the room). My local audio salon had a smaller Chord system into ATC40 passives and they was dire as well (and you lot should know how I still revere their now rather dated active models - no DSP options and so on and increasingly high prices which angers me rather). I looked at the pic of Origin Live and thought "They look like AVI's" - they were, sans grilles as best audiophool practice and with but one sub woofer reproducing all that low frequency crunge on a vinyl record in the bass. Sorry folks, I don't like OL and what they do but best not go further Sad about AVI, as Martin Grindrod was an excellent designer who really knew his stuff and Ashley James got them (and ATC before) noticed, but didn't know when to stop and he made plenty of enemies too.
Harbeth seemed to be regressing back to valve amos and in one room, a technics turntable where the singer presenting some of her recent work, was trying to show the increase in quality from MP3 to CD to SACD then reel to reel with the techie vinyl sounding 'best.' I posted in polite surprise on the HUG but it wasn't published and has now disappeared. The audiophile market is so stuck in the past, it's estimated that it'll take ten years before it's ready to embrace modern superior all-in-one tech (after most of my generation is too old or not here any more). Their distributors even fought the pro way of having the active amps on the back, as dealers can't sell a range of amps from expensive to unreal to go with them. So yet again, piles of boxes set up in a shrine between the speakers - pro users will have an option of 19" rack boxes with dsp crossovers and amps to fit to their gear racks.
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