Interconnect advice please !

[Gbeer7]

Not sure if i'm being stupid here. Is the 8000px still in production ? When you google it can't see anyone who sells it. Not even on the Audiolab site. There's an 8000ap.....

[Filterlab]

The 8000AP is a seven channel pre-amp. The PX is long gone but they still crop up on eBay now and then.

[Gbeer7]

Arrr right. Cheers Rob, clears that one up !
You had an 8000p though, didn't you ?

[Filterlab]

I have a very modified 8000P which I use for my fronts/2 channel listening. I've got your old 8000A (currently in the modding shop) for my centre channel and a Tag McLaren 60i for the rears. Plus I have two 8000Ms also being modded at the mo.

[webby]

Modding shop? Where did you send it Rob? I haven't followed up on your PM yet, sorry.

[Gbeer7]

I don't really understand this modding lark. What do you get modifiled ? I'm guessing it makes a differance ?

[DSJR]

Original Audiolabs are a huge and largely untapped modders dream I reckon, as the basic designs were sound and ripe for "improving."

The later Audiolab amps were lightly tweaked, lightly restyled and increased in price into the Tag models. The CD player was significantly re-worked though, but whether this was an Audiolab design or done post Tag I don't know.

The current Audiolab range is supposed to be the Tag designs made into facsimiles of the Audiolab style, unless I'm very much mistaken. I don't know if they've changed any more, but the current lower prices have cheapened the brand and the cachet of the name has gone IMO. Another stupid thing about brand image.....

To conclude, I suspect the current 8000P is derived from the 8000PX design...

[Filterlab]

I don't really understand this modding lark. What do you get modifiled ? I'm guessing it makes a differance ?

Like modding a car, modding a hi-fi component involves changing things like capacitors, output stages, back panel connectors, internal wiring etc etc. If the right bits are changed then the results can be astonishing!

Leo, Gazjam and UV101 will be able to tell you more as they're the chaps who're into this stuff (amongst others). My Audiolab gear goes to a friend who lives up in Shropshire, he doesn't do it as a business but he knows a shed load about electronics and hi-fi.

[Nabs]

I am a fan of MG generally, helpful chap. I have not though had the opportunity to yet try his interconnects. I have been tossing up between auditioning his and the Missing links (another website that seems particularly helpful), not noticed much other in the form of comparisons than one thread suggesting MG power cables gave improvements over the ML orbit cables. Anyone any experience?