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Cricket is the only game that not only has a pub built into the pitch, but also demands at least half the players are in that pub at any one time during a match. It also has some nerdy counting...

No. It's not a spoof. It was run just once, in Penthouse, in the 1980s. It was, at the time, Linn's most expensive and possibly most successful advertising campaign. I say 'possibly' because whenever...

No problems at all. It's all in the proper spirit anyway!




Agreed, and yes. Typically, the room had on average about eight bodies in there, three of them from the magazine, and at least seven...

We did consider using a Trinnov Amethyst to help counter room gain, but there's a couple of fairly unique problems with demonstrations and DSP; listener position and the ever-changing number of...

Interesting topic.

I think none of it will have much worth in 50 years time. The interest in audio as it stands is largely with the Baby Boomers now, the youngest of whom is in their 50s. Half a...

The Lehman Linear was the headphone amplifier Sennheiser used to demonstrate the HD800 before the company launched its own HDVD 800 amplifier.

It's a good match. The Grace Design m903 was...

That's OK Marco, I am somewhat sensitive on this subject as I've been burned before.

I suspect the best course of action here is for me to withdraw from this forum for a while. I am a great...

Yes Marco, I did intend to insult you, as I feel deeply offended by your statement.

For the record:

1. I put my photographic business into voluntary liquidation in 1989, because of a...

May I just interject to say that I am delighted to see that someone has finally pointed this out on a hi-fi forum.....


.........sorry. As you were!

Marco,

I only make personal comments when riled, and I find myself exceptionally riled because I find your none too thinly-veiled tone high-handed and exhibiting the worst kind of inverted...

False dichotomy. The two can co-exist, and I would wager most people would gravitate toward a product that looks pretty good and sounds pretty good. Because that's precisely what they do.
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Some people can afford the things I cannot. Many of them can afford these things without having to suffer the financial consequences. A few of them are living on borrowed time. I am comfortable with...

Because they keep coming back. Credit card companies tend to catch up with people who live a champagne lifestyle on a beer budget. Especially after 2008. Someone buying a pair of Wilson Alexias this...

Probably not. The Croft amp would be severely underpowered for the kind of loudspeakers used at that price. It doesn't reach sufficient standards required in that part of the market, and the JRDC amp...

Of course it doesn't. There are many people (actually, an increasing number of people, at last) who buy a good audio system for the purposes of hearing good sounds and have absolutely no interest in...

Maybe, just maybe, they choose things on entirely the same basis as everyone else. Sound quality.

Here's the thing. A Croft is a great amp. Some people might not buy it because it looks a bit...

That is a fallacy of equivocation. Someone who is enthusiastic about audio is, by definition, an audio enthusiast. It doesn't matter how that enthusiasm pans out, and any attempt by you, me, or...

In part because if you are prepared to save money on a cheaper case, you are prepared to also put up with a switch on thump, so the whole rationale for the checks and balances inside something like a...

I've met quite a few people with extremely high-end systems, and I've not met one who buys something on the basis of how it looks, rather than how it sounds. There are likely those oligarchs who buy...

Well no, and no. First, I don't know of any dealer who is making anything even remotely approaching those margins. At best, you might be looking at around 25% for high-end audio equipment, and closer...

But if you use the house price as a reference point, each Quad II would cost £6,480.

There's a part of the Internet the size of Wales just given over to calculating such things.

Yes, but it also depends on how one chooses to spend, and on what.

There's a strong school of thought that says the best possible car to buy (in terms of both depreciation and overall running...

The inverse holds too. "How can it be any good? - it costs £££££s", or "How can it be any good? It wasn't made 30 years ago". These attitudes are just as fallacious, just as bigoted, and I think far...

I'm finding this a little odd, too. I saw the Pear Audio Blue decks at T.H.E. Show in Las Vegas and brought up the subject of Fletcher Audio. I didn't particularly feel like dancing at the time, but...

Ignore all the snootiness toward Richer Sounds - Julian Richer's stores are usually very well managed, their prices keen, and their staff well trained, enthusiastic and knowledgable.

I'd have no...