Audiolab 8000A "the best amp ever made" apparently.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUDIOLAB-8...item3aaab75f75
Strange, 'dull and mediocre' would have been my description.
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Audiolab 8000A "the best amp ever made" apparently.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUDIOLAB-8...item3aaab75f75
Strange, 'dull and mediocre' would have been my description.
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wow, wonder if I can 400 quid for my one owner.
(must remeber to speel check my ad tho)
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I never liked the amp either and could never work out why all the magazines at the time raved about it so much...Originally Posted by walpurgis
He's over priced it at £495 as they normally sell for between £95 - £200'ish...
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I couldn't have put it better myself....
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I've had a few dealings with Jordan Watts drivers. Including brand new ones from the factory in Hayes, just up the road from me. They were a flawed design. The front foam/vinyl cone suspension was prone to coming loose. The rear beryllium copper tri-spring suspension went out of alignment easily and is a bugger to get straight again and the box shaped enclosing alloy basket caused nasty refiective colourations. They still seem to fetch silly prices though.
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Because, like the also favoured NAD 3020, it was forgiving of the inadequacies of the items it was likely to be matched with in the average system, simply due to its bland dullness. i.e., it was a 'safe' recommendation.
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You might be right there Geoff
I hated the 8000A with a passion... It always sounded 'thin' and nasty to me... never tried the NAD...
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Its the name I think that sells them. I have bid on the ones we discussed yesterday. the guy is German I think. Look like I may get em. he thinks they would be fine as the impedence will change in the box etc and likely go up towards 5/6 ohms... their nominal 8 wattt
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
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