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    Nik why you get rid of em? I spy the Sumo pre/pwr ontop of that Vox AC30 (what looks like but may be a later tranny vox)...You carzy man

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    Yep, Sumo Athena & Polaris. Not bad amps.
    There is also the arse end of a Cyrus 3 in there, not my favourite amp, the Accuphase preamp on the floor, two pairs of Rogers LS4a2 and a pair of LS7t

    The VOX is an AC125 "Climax", made roughly '78-'82. Pair of Celestion G12Ms, 4xEL34, 2xECC83, 1xECC82, 1xECC81 and about 125watts of yeehaaaaa.

    Sold the LS5/8s as they are just too damn big and ugly. ie. SWMBO told me to get rid Harbeth Compact 7s came next and in many ways are the better speaker albeit without the weight and scale. Such is life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by enbee23 View Post

    Sold the LS5/8s as they are just too damn big and ugly. ie. SWMBO told me to get rid Harbeth Compact 7s came next and in many ways are the better speaker albeit without the weight and scale. Such is life.
    You driving the 'Ls5/8' with Quad '405' or H/H i presume!...Ugly you are crazy man

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    Quads. Well, they're not exactly beautiful are they?!
    I could have happily lived with them but sometimes you have to lose the odd battle in order to win the war

    The Harbs were genuinely better speakers, if smaller. Would love a pair of M40s one day.

    Sorry Sastus for hijacking your thread!

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    Quote Originally Posted by enbee23 View Post
    Quads. Well, they're not exactly beautiful are they?!
    I could have happily lived with them but sometimes you have to lose the odd battle in order to win the war

    The Harbs were genuinely better speakers, if smaller. Would love a pair of M40s one day.

    Sorry Sastus for hijacking your thread!
    That's OK,

    I remember you offering those smaller Rogers for sale, but as you see I ended up with two pairs of Cerwin Vega V-152 for that application.

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    Wink It's a seventies museum !

    Hello Sastus, what a heap of junk

    I'd be embarrassed to have my friends round.

    Throw it all away and get a MacBook Pro with Airport Express and Optical ADM9's, it's all you need and you'll be much happier.

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    Looking at all those Rogers speakers reminds me that I have a pair of (I believe) LS6 in the loft. Used to use them in the garden driven from my main kit with very long leads.

    Can't see a mention of them; I thought they were very neutral and imaged beautifully in the open space, but does anybody know of these? Maybe they were crap (by Rogers' standards). No idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcbrum View Post
    Hello Sastus, what a heap of junk

    I'd be embarrassed to have my friends round.

    Throw it all away and get a MacBook Pro with Airport Express and Optical ADM9's, it's all you need and you'll be much happier.
    Hello JC,

    Nice of you to comment. Though clearly you do not know the age of the equipment. Its not quite a 70's museum.

    I myself don't think of it all as a heap of junk, I know there is better out there, but the stuff works and lets me enjoy my music. With the above I can hear differences in CD remasters, MP3 formats and lossless, PMP players, computer audio, CD transports etc etc. The system still has sufficient resolution and life in it to do me another number of years, and serve my music and me well.

    I guess we have different types of "friends", though I feel that term is wrong if they judge you by such matters. Most of my "friends" are quite taken by my system, and many of them also have reasonable systems and a life, a lot are also involved in music, bands and recording etc. Many also use computers for music in the home, and have done for years.

    I would rather not throw my equipment away, as I have said in other places MAC and PC are not the be all and end all of digital replay and DO NOT compete at all with many CD players when it comes to enjoying music (at least not to my ears, and many others I work with). The budget Sony CD player at work outperforms the IMac which is also used there, as did an old Dual 5150 which is currently the main performer in a system which also utilises a laptop, these two also outperform shuffles Ipods and various other PMP's. (Apple computers are pretty prolific at my work, as are MacBooks and such)

    I am not at all convinced regarding the ADM9's, and did try and forget about the tit for tat, and delete a lot of posts which I felt were useless. What I read in the SOS and HiFi Choice review put them across as no better than any others in that price bracket. They are compromised, constructed from shelf components and overhyped. If they were any good I would be quite capable of selling one of my Classe powers and say an EAR phono to fund the purchase, and stick in either one of my PC's or MACs. But as neither of my PC's or MACs does music that well to my ears, and the ADM9 is so hyped and compromised.

    I would definitely be much better off keeping the Classe, and the EAR phono, and putting a Technics 1210 into the EAR phono, and that into the Classe, and wiring this to a pair of Linn Kans. This would provide a much more fun and musical set up than a Macbook into ADM9's.

    Besides I would rather buy Genelec S30-D speakers or similar active JBL's if I needed something active for use with the Macbook. And similar results CAN be had with cheaper pro active speakers and a cheaper laptop, Apple and ADM9 are not the only options for such a bedroom/bedsit system.

    Anyway, instead of taking the piss out of others and their equipment, why not post a pic of you own system in your own system thread?
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    Anyway, instead of taking the piss out of others and their equipment, why not post a pic of you own system in your own system thread?
    Good call, Steve. Let's see your set-up then, jc! Come to think of it, I'd like to see Ashley's, too...

    I bet he's got a Garrard 401, a classic CDP, and some BC1s or something, instead of that ADM9 bollocks he promotes



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    Ho Ho Ho!

    J.C., you are a bit of a stirrer, I feel, and obviously successful judging by the copious response!

    Would this be the same 'airport express' that I took from Norwich to Heathrow last year? Certainly didn't make music for me!!!

    As Marco says, how about showing us your wares. I'd love to post piccies but will have to wait until 'er indoors works out how to do it. Ideally I'd use the 21mm lens on my Olympus (to get the room in one shot) but haven't got a scanner. Thus I'm forced to use her (remarkably good) little Fuji digital to take piecemeal shots.

    There are problems being an 'anachrophile' (as coined, I believe, by Ken Kessler). The seemingly outdated CDP is still a novely that I'm not entirely au fait with from a musical standpoint.

    ROB. are you revisiting your roots in the near future?

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