"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Iain Churches" wrote


Keith. A visit to any large audio fare where, CDs and vinyl is sold cheek
by
jowl, will demonstrate to anyone where the interest lies. People are
usually
buzzing like bees around the vinyl sellers:-))


So I gather - have never been to one myself....

Great fun. I always come away with some goodies:-)

I have just acquired a mint boxed set of Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies
VPO:Maazel. Brilliant:-)


That remark had me checking my 'boxes'! :-)

I have two boxed sets of Tchike - one is The Hague Philharmonic
Orch/Otterloo and the other has no details of the band or conductor but
merely states 'Dacrop Recordings, complete & uncut'...??? A treat for
later, if I can push past my current 'opera/lieder fixation'...!!

(I love boxed sets - very often they are completely *unplayed* or only
Side 1/Disc 1 has been played!! :-)

Yes indeed. This applies in particular to Readers' Digest boxed sets (like
the
40 sides of Mantovani, which sold in huge numbers!!)

Imagine - 40 sides of Mantovani!!!

While I'm on....

I have only just recently restored my Jerichos to my room:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/pianoblack2.JPG

They are troublesome boxes and, even with the EX3s in them, can sound very
hoarse/croaky on speech. Sometimes, if I walk in on them with Classick FM
(DAB) on and an announcement's in progress they can sound quite 'quacky'!!
Then the music starts and that's all gone, thankfully, but I've got them
under close scrute atm and fully expect to have to do something about
them!

Please keep us informed. I am hoping to be able to borrow for evaluation
a pair of Lowther Delphic (2xEX3 in each enclosure, about 170 litres)
in the New year. I am very much looking forward to it.


They are *without doubt* truly remarkable speakers - once you 'get it'
with them and can overcome (or tune out) the odd 'characteristic' (see
'quacky' above) there's no going back to ordinary speakers, believe
me....!!

(Btw, ignore the usual silly remarks about top and bottom octaves - they
are no more deficient in these areas that most/many other speakers....)

My personal experience is that the LF is a little weak. One would expect
the eight orchestral basses on Prokofiev Op.25 to have a little more "grunt"
As regards the top end, I agree with you. I do not find them lacking.

Iain