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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! :-)
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:27:07 GMT, "Fleetie"
wrote:

"jimmy" wrote
After doing a bit of research I though NAD looked a good buy with the chosen
system coming in at around 800 ukp. However, as soon as my wife saw it she
decided it was far too ugly to grace our living room - so that was that.

Have you tried retorting that in fact, she is also too ugly to darken
your living room, but you don't go on about it?

I am astonished at the crap some guys get over their hi-fi from their
wives - what they can and can't have there, etc. No wife of mine would
get a choice in the matter of my hi-fi. And if she was so up herself that
she couldn't live with it, then well, the problem resolves itself, doesn't
it?

Sheesh.

So, you're not married?
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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So, you're not married?

Korrekt!

But none of my gfs has ever expressed anything other than delight
at my equipment.

I really think there are higher things to worry about in life and
in marriage than whether the hi-fi "fits in with" a living room.

Besides, often a good hi-fi looks rather nice too, as a bonus.


Martin
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M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk

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On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:06:55 GMT, "Fleetie"
wrote:

So, you're not married?

Korrekt!

But none of my gfs has ever expressed anything other than delight
at my equipment.

Umm, we are still talking hi-fi here, right? :-)

I really think there are higher things to worry about in life and
in marriage than whether the hi-fi "fits in with" a living room.

Indeed so. Just remember that the longest sentence in the English
language is "I do"....................

Besides, often a good hi-fi looks rather nice too, as a bonus.

Shame about the GFs, then? :-)
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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[snipm]

all above http://www.superfi.co.uk

In my experience Superfi never actually have anything they advertise in
stock.


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Andrew Walls
Near the Arctic Circle
Norway
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