"Arnold" wrote in message
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In May 2006, Hi-Fi Choice's reviewers sat round an email client program
and between them came up with the 50 most important hi-fi components ever
sold in the UK. The results were published in an award-winning supplement
Hi-Fi that Rocked the World. If you missed it, here's the top ten:

1. Linn Sondek LP12 turntable
2. NAD 3020 integrated amplifier
3. Quad Electrostatic loudspeaker
4. Rega Planar 3 turntable
5. Pioneer A400 integrated amplifier
6. B&W Nautilus 801 loudspeaker
7. BBC LS3/5a loudspeaker
8. Marantz CD-63 MkII KI Signature CD player
9. Garrard 301 turntable
10. Wharfedale Diamond loudspeaker


I am glad to see my CD player there at number 8! I can't wait to hear it
with my new PM7001KI amp......



Well if you are 'uatkp' on eBay you bought it from me a couple of months
ago:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...L:EOISSA:UK:11


(Ignore the BS in the Item Description - that was just to get it shifted.)

With the output level attenuated to match a 70 quid Argos special (which I
bought to *investigate* and which also plays MP3s) a number of people here
couldn't tell them apart on a variety of speakers when seamlessly A/B'd by
means of the (Argos) amplifier's remote control.

That is *no-one* could tell them apart, not even the one time...

The only thing I've learned about 'audio' in the last few years is that
there's more horse**** in it than the Augean stables and I don't take
much/any notice of hifi magazine's lists of 'all time greats' or the blx
that some of the contributors will gladly publish when they get an interview
with an industry *glamour boy*....