On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:54:01 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

BTW, the advice on the Denon TU260 (and aerial) was spot on - it's
still the best budget tuner around. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Awww! Fankx!.

Course you could seek out some decent speakers from yesteryear such as
the Spendor BC1's, could live with those quite easily if SWMBO ever
objected to the 63's on their stands.

I was unfortunate enough to hear a pair of those recently. I say
'unfortunate', because they have always been one of my fondly
remembered classic speakers, but I have to say that by modern
standards, they sound distinctly overwarm, almost muddy, in the bass,
with very average mid and treble definition. Still, on the bright
side, we have clearly made progress! The '63s remain a great speaker
however, with the 988 only building on those strengths and providing
as standard a number of well-known 'tweaks' to that classic design.

Fortunately she's one of those rare wimmen who likes consumer audio
having her own QUAD 11's and 33/303/FM2 much updated, with 24/96 M audio
soundcard and LAN server with some few thousand tracks to draw from in
her playroom)

Simple really change yer SWMBO before yer speakers!....

I hadn't planned on spending *that* much on new speakers! :-)
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering