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paulf-2007
08-12-2018, 19:05
How many of you good people have swapped up to what would be considered a great set up and then settled on something far more modest. I feel I have. Started many years who with a full akai separates including turntable and wharfedale laser 60 speakers ( still got them in my barn ) some years on got into valves, horns and open baffles. Had some valve amps and several valve phono stages, bottle head 2A3, j sound labs 300B, amplifon 6C33C, PX25 mono's built by Jim turner for Jim Carfrae's Carfrae horns, to name a few. With the right speakers the PX25 were the best. Now I'm settled with a Sony 6055 receiver, using the internal phono stage driving Zu Omen, Yulong Dac ( I've had for many years ) Denon DVD/ sacd player( rarely used ) I'm as happy as a pig in shit and not looking for anything.

I suppose I should mention the only thing I haven't downgraded is the Denon DP80, got to draw the line somewhere

I would be interested to hear of others that have found contentment at a lower level kit wise.
Puffin
08-12-2018, 19:53
Most of my stuff is either DIY or tweaked/remodelled and sounds great to me. Most people would think it is junk :)
walpurgis
08-12-2018, 19:59
Most of my stuff is either DIY or tweaked/remodelled and sounds great to me. Most people would think it is junk :)

I remember hearing your 'junk' Rob. It looked and sounded pretty good to me :).
Puffin
08-12-2018, 20:09
I remember hearing your 'junk' Rob. It looked and sounded pretty good to me :).

Why thang ya kindly Sir. I was between speakers at the time and using some Mission 780SE's which are a bloody great small speaker. I sold them and wished I hadn't. However we all have a "few"(cough cough) spares to press into service. Currently enjoying some EAR open baffles which I got to work satisfactorily after a lot of fettling.
walpurgis
08-12-2018, 20:15
Yeah. I remember they were 780SE's, sounded bloody excellent!
Ninanina
08-12-2018, 20:22
Rob do you still have the Klipsch, or did you move them on ?
Puffin
08-12-2018, 20:35
Move them on!!!! am I not hopelessly addicted to collecting all things hifi:eek:

Yes. I still have them, although they have not been played for some years. Oddly enough when I saw your post about Colin I thought...how long is it since I collected the Klipsch...err got to be few years now.
Ninanina
08-12-2018, 20:47
Move them on!!!! am I not hopelessly addicted to collecting all things hifi:eek:

Yes. I still have them, although they have not been played for some years. Oddly enough when I saw your post about Colin I thought...how long is it since I collected the Klipsch...err got to be few years now.

I'm glad you still have the Klipsch Rob... yes it must be 3-4 years' ish I am guessing since you collected them from sunny Portsmouth..

You should try them again Rob, they are pretty good....and I think they sound better than the Heresy II's that I owned twice to be honest.. :eek: