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    Quote Originally Posted by Yomanze View Post
    For example the Martin Audio MLA system. No home system will get close.

    Looks like a half-built Lego 'Death Star' that someone has spilt a bag of skittles over.

    I don't think it is reasonable to compare huge PA systems like that with domestic hi fi. I've a heard a couple of small rigs I could probably live with domestically, though. It is still just a pair of speakers and an amp at the end of the day, why would it be so different?
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    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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    Sure it's not the best system I've heard, but like others, the one that left the biggest impression was the first time I heard real hifi (whatever that means): my brother's system in about 1989/90 was a Roksan Xerxes with RB300/Roksan Corus, Naim Nait 2 and Mission 780 Argonauts.


    We were listening to this

    ...and it blew me away. Never heard anything like it before and I've been kinda trying to recapture that impression ever since.

    The Xerxes has long gone (plinth sag), but I'm still using those Mission speakers, he's just lent me the Naim amp and I'm listening to the Seeds of Love now - the very same LP! Dare I try the amp or am I better preserving the memory of the impression it left..?

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    What impressed you then may not now, I would think that's the same for many people.
    Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers

    Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house

    Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck


    System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.

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    Impressions are transient and fluctuating, as is our mental context from which we perceive.

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    Impressions don’t last, and do not contribute to the one true measurement in HiFi, which is: long term listening enjoyment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by paulf-2007 View Post
    What impressed you then may not now, I would think that's the same for many people.
    Indeed, unless your sonic standards (and benchmark from which to judge them) has remained stagnant since!

    However, as an aside, I'm also a great believer in the reason why things sounded good 'back in the day', was because the mains wasn't as polluted then, with RFI, etc, as it is now - and that that has a significant bearing on matters, particularly for those of us trying to recreate 'that sound', which so impressed us all those years ago with certain kit, and failing miserably, no matter how much we try...

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    I much respected the opinion about the sound of a Hi-Fi from my late friend who was a musician, and an owner of good equipment. His main system included Quad 405-2, 44, FM4 and ESL63's. His second system included Quad 33/303/ FM3 and Chartwell LS3/5A's. My own equipment includes all the above, but we were listening to other components that I have, namely Technics SU-V303 amplifier and Hi Fi News design Daline speakers that use KEF B110, KEF T15 and Coles 4001G in a large transmission line type cabinet. My friend reckoned that this was the best sound that he had ever heard. The main shortfall of the speakers is that they would not produce a disco type level, but were fine for normal listening.
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    Much of our learning is about our own mistakes in perception.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Indeed, unless your sonic standards (and benchmark from which to judge them) has remained stagnant since!

    However, as an aside, I'm also a great believer in the reason why things sounded good 'back in the day', was because the mains wasn't as polluted then, with RFI, etc, as it is now - and that that has a significant bearing on matters, particularly for those of us trying to recreate 'that sound', which so impressed us all those years ago with certain kit, and failing miserably, no matter how much we try...

    Marco.
    polluted mains....I blame global warming
    Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers

    Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house

    Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck


    System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paulf-2007 View Post
    polluted mains....I blame global warming
    I think we just make our memories rosier with time. I can still recall what my first system sounded like - I think. It couldn't do the cymbals properly on Wishbone Ash 'Argus'. I only found that out when I upgraded the deck and heard what they were supposed to sound like.

    The other factor is youth. Or our present lack of it. Nothing sounds as good or tastes as good as it did when the world was young.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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