The Dance Has Begun, Lets Usher In a New Era

Well then where do I start,

After a chat with Dave I decided to travel down to Dartmouth and pick the Ushers up, including the packing cases. Set off Saturday and finally returned home about 03.15 Sunday morning. Taking us on a 794 Mile round trip in one go. My god was I goosed when I got home.

Well didn't get up until mid-day and then had to extract the huge packing cases that contained the speakers from the hire van ( which some kind person ran into with his toe bar while parked at a service station and drove off without telling me T**t ).

Speakers unpacked, what an effort that is, definitely a 2 man job. Plinths attached and put into an initial guess position. Connected up and powered up the kit.

Thought I had better give them a chance to acclimatise so put a CD on at low level and walked out the room to let them play nice and quietly for a while. No too sure how I managed to do that as I am as excited as a kid at Christmas. Daft sod I am :eyebrows:.

A couple of quick photo's below and a brief first thought of the speakers very first listen to.

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...und/Usher1.jpg

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/l...und/Usher2.jpg


Flippin' Awesome.

Will post a more thoughtful review of sorts later when I have got to grips with them, but these beasts have made the selling of my Dali's suddenly disappear into the past. These are the way forward.


Andy - SDDW :gig:

P.S. Cheers to Mart for doing the driving for me.

Nice pictures Andy....I look forward to your write up. Thank you.:)

You can tell those are going to be a bit awkward to position and get out of their boxes...not much worse than gloss, cabinets to try and hold on to....you can't :lol:

I didn't know you had an Almarro amp. Whats it like...you can PM me or write a review :lol:


Regards D S D L

Hi Neil

I’ve had the Almarro 50125 for a couple of years now. It actually replaced a Krell FPB200, so it had to do things right.

How would I describe the sound;

·Power - 125W according to the manufacturer, personally I would say 80-90.
·Control – Keeps it all together, no overblown bass lines or bloating. Puts the music forward without overemphasizing any aspect of the music.
·Finesse – All the subtleties of the music are faithfully reproduced, the natural decay of instruments seem to be replicated correctly.

The amps are hand built to order and can be specified as Integrated, Power or Monoblock amps.

I’ve always been well pleased with it, and the true test, for me anyway, is I have no thoughts about replacement. Well apart from wondering what the monoblocks would do for me, reduced bank balance I would think.

Andy - SDDW

Very tidy setup Andy. The Ushers look fantastic. Very much at home, they do!

Hi Nick

They do look, well permenant don't they, I have only given them a best guess placement initially. The Almarro is going to be pulled forward and the RHS speaker will move to the right a touch. With the space at the rear nice and open I can play with side wall and back wall boundry effects.

So far the imagery is spot on and Nnenna Freelons vocals are so soulful and emmotional it's unreal. Bass depth is, tight and deep. Sounds like it is emminating from the bowels of the earth.

Must depart as the PC is in a different room to the Ushers I need to listen to more, and more, and more, and more :).

Back soon

Andy - SDDW

Lovelly looking system and as Nick says the Ushers look fantastic and imagine they will be big step up
I look forward to your thoughts

Looking fantastic, Andy. I've always rated Ushers and those big babies look da bizzo!! :eek: :youtheman:

Enjoy (I know you will) ;)

Marco.

Hi Guys


I've been enjoying these Ushers for the last few hours and been just playing CD after CD. So far there is nothing that I through at these beauties that they can't handle.

They are just so enjoyable, a good pointer to just how much I am loving these is I have already stopped analysing them and just enjoying playing the music.


Been playing a few of my favorite guitarists Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, Ronny Jordan, Frank Gambale. The expression is they seem to be so much more 'articulate' in their playing now than they were before, hope you understand what I am trying to say there?


Back to music now guys. Currently playing Ronny Jordan - At Last with Crystal Lake on vocals. Mmmmmmmmm Nice


Andy - SDDW

Ronny's Jordan's cover of 'So What' is funky as hell... enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JrVGWmwGjQ

Some really cool players Andy and great to hear you enjoying the music and no longer listening to the sound