Haselsh1
27-02-2016, 11:38
Way back in 1977 I had a motorcycle accident that led to me staying in hospital for six months with a full years rehabilitation. During this time I put together a Hi-Fi system based around a Naim 42/110 pre – power combo into IMF Super Compact loudspeakers. Around 1982 I bought a pair of QLN MkI speakers to use with my Logic DM101 and Naim system. These loudspeakers stayed with me for some considerable time until I moved to a pair of Music Fidelity MC4’s sat on Target stands.
I don’t know why but I then traded in to a pair of Rogers rosewood LS3/5a’s single wired type which coincided with the arrival of a Musical Fidelity A100X amplifier. This system amazed both me and my friends with its stereo imaging but for whatever reason I then bought a pair of Castle Harlech’s.
After this I reinvented everything via 300B SE amplification and a pair of Audio Note AZ-2’s. This was just staggering for midrange and acoustic guitar. Later, my business went bust and I just about lost everything. I had a huge blackness in my life from which, thanks to Sue, I am now recovering. I bought a pair of KEF Q500’s because I knew they would reinstate some of that stereo image I craved for but I have been groveling in the dark with amplifiers.
For the future and yet another reinvention, I am thinking about KEF LS50 speakers driven via an Icon Audio Stereo 40 MkIII powered by EL34’s, my favourite valve. I am also planning an SACD upgrade as well.
So, I have never been through vast numbers of pairs of loudspeakers as they have, by and large, provided what I wanted. The future I think will involve a much smaller room and so a serious rethink but once again, job willing, it will all come together.
I don’t know why but I then traded in to a pair of Rogers rosewood LS3/5a’s single wired type which coincided with the arrival of a Musical Fidelity A100X amplifier. This system amazed both me and my friends with its stereo imaging but for whatever reason I then bought a pair of Castle Harlech’s.
After this I reinvented everything via 300B SE amplification and a pair of Audio Note AZ-2’s. This was just staggering for midrange and acoustic guitar. Later, my business went bust and I just about lost everything. I had a huge blackness in my life from which, thanks to Sue, I am now recovering. I bought a pair of KEF Q500’s because I knew they would reinstate some of that stereo image I craved for but I have been groveling in the dark with amplifiers.
For the future and yet another reinvention, I am thinking about KEF LS50 speakers driven via an Icon Audio Stereo 40 MkIII powered by EL34’s, my favourite valve. I am also planning an SACD upgrade as well.
So, I have never been through vast numbers of pairs of loudspeakers as they have, by and large, provided what I wanted. The future I think will involve a much smaller room and so a serious rethink but once again, job willing, it will all come together.