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  1. #31
    Join Date: Jan 2008

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    Well, I've just spent a good few hours this afternoon and tonight listening to Ian's rather 'bad-ass' new passive, and can confirm that it's superb: almost like hard-wiring the music to your head!

    600 quid for a DIY build, which would probably take £5k for a commercial item to sonically equal. That's certainly a Billy Bargain in my book... SPPV rules!

    I shall be getting one of my own built in due course

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  2. #32
    Join Date: Mar 2008

    Location: Galashiels

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    I'm inthescottishmafia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian Walker View Post
    Couldn't have put it better Ali,this was the only way I could get this level of performance...buy the bits and get a mate to build it for me...ive had some very(supposedly)high end kit here and non of it came close..This has cost a whole 5th of the last pre I had...i'm listening to music again RESULT

    Ian.
    Good stuff Ian, glad it's doing the business for you. :-)
    “Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio”

    Hunter S Thompson

  3. #33
    Join Date: Mar 2015

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    I'm Deano.

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    Well done brother looks amazing and if Don Marco gives the thumbs-up then must be superb especially if he is parting with hard earned cash for one himself lol, I moved on to passive pre a year ago and will never go active again, the sound is truly magical and the blackness is black which I love, good job again

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