Yes, should be interesting....delivery tomorrow a.m assuming all goes well.
Hopefully they won't lose out too much in clarity to the Akais but will suit the room a lot better. It is all a bit too 'spry, crisp and dry' at the moment.
Yes, should be interesting....delivery tomorrow a.m assuming all goes well.
Hopefully they won't lose out too much in clarity to the Akais but will suit the room a lot better. It is all a bit too 'spry, crisp and dry' at the moment.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
On the end of a good system, the TLS50 has decent transparency and a quite refined character. It's a nice speaker.
It was designed and built by people who actually used their ears. Non of this modern computery stuff!
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
If they are at all like the IMF ALS40 Loudspeakers my Dad had, you'll love 'em
Streamer: NovaFidelity X40, Turntable: Rega RP3, Arm: Rega RB303, Cartridge: Audio Technica AT120E, Amp: Belles Aria, Loudspeakers: Quadral Aurum Montan VIII, Rack: Creaktiv Trend 1, Cables: Beresford, Chord, Coherent, MCRU, Rega, TCI.
Geoff dropped them of with me this morning. See here http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...Lash-Up/page31
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
I should have bought these... just reminiscing on Google and it threw up this old thread - and herself doesn't mind the looks of them either (she hated the fact that in this room, the tatty Spendors sounded better on vocals than the neatly styled TDL Studio 1M's I had for a short while, the latter looking perfect in our small room). Having put my mk1 Compacts back in the workroom on different 'risers' after months of the LS5/9's, I'm loving that midrange all over again (Lurcher-tweaked 'Doc-Mod' point-n-squirts to follow in a while, but that's another clutch of eggs entirely)
Don't know who's got them now as Martin's moved on, but I do hope they're still being enjoyed...
Tear down these walls; Cut the ties that held me
Crying out at the top of my voice; Tell me now if you can hear me