I have an ancient pair of humongous floor standing Sansui sp 7300 speakers
which my father envies. He says that the quality compared to his speakers at
home is brilliant. He wants a replacement pair of proper speakers , listens
to classical and bras music, is a REAL musician (not like me) and so has a
good ear for sound.

What could I get him for his birthday that are in the £150 price range?
Would a trip to RicherSounds be useful?
Is it best to buy new on the basis that technology is always improving the
sound/product?

Any polite thoughts welcome peeps.

Cannot give polite comments on old Sansui speakers that only produced
distortion and only 150 pounds/pair, to replace them with right?
"Lil' Ol Man" Lil' Ol wrote in message
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I have an ancient pair of humongous floor standing Sansui sp 7300 speakers
which my father envies. He says that the quality compared to his speakers
at home is brilliant. He wants a replacement pair of proper speakers ,
listens to classical and bras music, is a REAL musician (not like me) and
so has a good ear for sound.

What could I get him for his birthday that are in the £150 price range?
Would a trip to RicherSounds be useful?
Is it best to buy new on the basis that technology is always improving the
sound/product?

Any polite thoughts welcome peeps.

I had these, new in 1980 methinks. 16" woofers, 4.75" midrange, 6.5" tweeter
plus 2 super tweeters with 160w RMS handling each. Could almost blow the
windows out of my flat with Meatloaf and Bat out of Hell but also brilliant
on classical music esp 1812 and other loud bits without distortion Tony.
Are you thinking of different cheaper ones? Mine were about £400 .. Not a
hi-fi named and recognised make tho, must admit... that was in my youth when
size was important and the "proper hi-fi" kit was out of my reach
financially. Big buggers - about 2ft x 18" wide methinks.. Must go and find
the paper work on them ...


"Tony Pike" wrote in message
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Cannot give polite comments on old Sansui speakers that only produced
distortion and only 150 pounds/pair, to replace them with right?
"Lil' Ol Man" Lil' Ol wrote in message
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I have an ancient pair of humongous floor standing Sansui sp 7300 speakers
which my father envies. He says that the quality compared to his speakers
at home is brilliant. He wants a replacement pair of proper speakers ,
listens to classical and bras music, is a REAL musician (not like me) and
so has a good ear for sound.

What could I get him for his birthday that are in the £150 price range?
Would a trip to RicherSounds be useful?
Is it best to buy new on the basis that technology is always improving
the sound/product?

Any polite thoughts welcome peeps.

"Tony Pike" wrote in message
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Cannot give polite comments on old Sansui speakers that only produced
distortion and only 150 pounds/pair, to replace them with right?
"Lil' Ol Man" Lil' Ol wrote in message
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I have an ancient pair of humongous floor standing Sansui sp 7300
speakers which my father envies. He says that the quality compared to his
speakers at home is brilliant. He wants a replacement pair of proper
speakers , listens to classical and bras music, is a REAL musician (not
like me) and so has a good ear for sound.

What could I get him for his birthday that are in the £150 price range?
Would a trip to RicherSounds be useful?
Is it best to buy new on the basis that technology is always improving
the sound/product?

Any polite thoughts welcome peeps.

We are close to 2007, so your not going to be able to find anything
with 1950 prices. Realistically One Fifty Pounds [ $450 ] is only going
to buy you a reasonable set of leads.
It comes down to you only get what you pay for. Sorry.

Probably a trip to "Richer" would help, but only to inform you about
what's available, and what you can expect to pay. I.E. add another
nought to your price

bassett

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"Tony Pike" wrote in message
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Cannot give polite comments on old Sansui speakers that only produced
distortion and only 150 pounds/pair, to replace them with right?
"Lil' Ol Man" Lil' Ol wrote in message
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I have an ancient pair of humongous floor standing Sansui sp 7300
speakers which my father envies. He says that the quality compared to
his speakers at home is brilliant. He wants a replacement pair of proper
speakers , listens to classical and bras music, is a REAL musician (not
like me) and so has a good ear for sound.

What could I get him for his birthday that are in the £150 price range?
Would a trip to RicherSounds be useful?
Is it best to buy new on the basis that technology is always improving
the sound/product?

Certain things _may_ improve, mass produced items become cheaper as more
components are integrated into monlithic chips requiring greatly simplified
circuit boards and probably lower power consumption (for example). I'd be
interested to hear whether speakers themselves have actually improved. I've
not bought speakers for years and the low end ones I've heard recently have
had a particularly nasty sound when compared to bookshelf speakers of 10
years ago or more like the LS3/5a .
Modern extended bass systems such as surround sound systems produce ISTM a
monotonous one note bass which is very tiring compared to the bass produced
by a large tradtional speaker with a large cone.

Any polite thoughts welcome peeps.

We are close to 2007, so your not going to be able to find anything
with 1950 prices. Realistically One Fifty Pounds [ $450 ] is only going
to buy you a reasonable set of leads.

There is nothing IMO reasonable about a set of leads that costs either £150
or $450.

It comes down to you only get what you pay for. Sorry.

In which case it's not worth shopping around for anything as everything is
worth exactly what you pay for it.

"Tony Pike" wrote in message
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Cannot give polite comments on old Sansui speakers that only produced
distortion and only 150 pounds/pair, to replace them with right?
"Lil' Ol Man" Lil' Ol wrote in message
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I have an ancient pair of humongous floor standing Sansui sp 7300
speakers which my father envies. He says that the quality compared to
his speakers at home is brilliant. He wants a replacement pair of proper
speakers , listens to classical and bras music, is a REAL musician (not
like me) and so has a good ear for sound.

What could I get him for his birthday that are in the £150 price range?
Would a trip to RicherSounds be useful?
Is it best to buy new on the basis that technology is always improving

Have you considered giving him your speakers, and buying something new for
yourself? That would be the first thing that occurred to me if someone
envied my speakers.

Norm Strong

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bassett wrote:
We are close to 2007, so your not going to be able to find anything
with 1950 prices. Realistically One Fifty Pounds [ $450 ] is only
going to buy you a reasonable set of leads.

Anyone who thinks it necessary to pay 150 gbp for a pair of leads isn't to
be taken seriously. ;-)

--
*If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
bassett wrote:
We are close to 2007, so your not going to be able to find anything
with 1950 prices. Realistically One Fifty Pounds [ $450 ] is only
going to buy you a reasonable set of leads.

Anyone who thinks it necessary to pay 150 gbp for a pair of leads isn't to
be taken seriously. ;-)

--
*If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

You obversely have no idea what's available and what is charged for hi-end
cables.
And really , if you did know what you where commenting on, you would know
that , good quality hi-end cabling would cost in excess of that per meter.
Many suppliers and installers will tell you to allow 10% of the purchase
price of your Hi-Fi kit for cables and interconnects.
bassett

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I have an ancient pair of humongous floor standing Sansui sp 7300 speakers
which my father envies. He says that the quality compared to his speakers
at
home is brilliant. He wants a replacement pair of proper speakers ,
listens
to classical and bras music, is a REAL musician (not like me) and so has a
good ear for sound.

What could I get him for his birthday that are in the £150 price range?
Would a trip to RicherSounds be useful?
Is it best to buy new on the basis that technology is always improving the
sound/product?

Any polite thoughts welcome peeps.


A 2nd hand BW 220, 220i, 330, 330i pair
should be ok and about that price...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !!!

Lil' Ol Man wrote:

I have an ancient pair of humongous floor standing Sansui sp 7300 speakers
which my father envies. He says that the quality compared to his speakers at
home is brilliant. He wants a replacement pair of proper speakers , listens
to classical and bras music, is a REAL musician (not like me) and so has a
good ear for sound.

What could I get him for his birthday that are in the £150 price range?
Would a trip to RicherSounds be useful?
Is it best to buy new on the basis that technology is always improving the
sound/product?

Any polite thoughts welcome peeps.

I don't think you could live with a pair speakers that cost £150 new.
You could get a "near the top of the range" pair of Sennheiser phones
for that money.

--
Eiron.