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You're right - I should have clicked on the "0 bids".Quote:
Originally Posted by Andre
That's my approach to Chinese built gear. The track record for all of my 'Region Free' DVD players, so far, has been 12 -18 months before they develop a fault. At £50 a pop I can live with that. Wouldn't spend any more on Chinese crap!
Regards
If your good enough to find exceptionally good performing gear at beer money it's the best way, i don't give a shit what badge snobs think of me & what i buy,it aint a competition.. i used to hate japanese gear but i changed that point of view some time ago they last a lot longer than the high priced english hi-fi..The best quality for the money equipment to buy IMHO is Sony.This Sony CDP i have is around ten years old now, i have another unused boxed so if it ever breaks down who cares. Ive had CD players & amps from most well respected british manufacturers & all have given me problems before 2 years.Never again i don't work my bollox of to pay for unreliable hi-priced clobber
Most consumer electronics of respected (mainstream) manufacturers are reliable (for at least 10-20 yeras). ;)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it against eBay 'rules' to cancel an auction where valid bids exist unless you clearly state that the item is also being advertised off-line too?
If not, surely this would just be an easy way out for anyone who didn't like the price their item reached?
Yeah, its regarded as against the spirit of the auction, but I think you can still pull an auction after bidding has occurred and come up with a feeble excuse from the options list. I think you can even claim back your fees if you complete the transaction outside of ebay.Quote:
Originally Posted by twelvebears
I wish he wasnt so far away i'd have these, one of the first speakers i ever had. The sheer size of em will kill bids.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CASTLE-HOWARD-...item230583e1b3
Wow, those are very different from the Castle Howards I remember of the 90s, which were tall floor-standers with upward-firing drivers.... Back then I had the Harlech; it's smaller brother - they were quite good :)
I like the look of the vintage ones, but the only thing that'd put me off is the weird shape, low and squat... You'd need pretty weird looking custom-made speaker stands to a) support their full dimensions, and b) to get them up to the correct ear height, as they seem so low to the ground....
Marco.
Around the same time, ProAc came up with a speaker employing 4 x KEF B110 in tandem as a bass driver. The idea being that you had the air moving capabilities of a large bass unit with the 'speed' of a smalll driver. It wasn't 100% successful and was abandoned. Interesting though...:scratch:
ProAc also did a speaker employing 20 or more (I can't remember), 1 inch dome Peerless tweeters as the bass driver, a single dome for HF and a Piezo super-tweet. This was very fast and transparent but the domes would quickly run out of excursion and burn out. Good fun for a short time...:eyebrows:
What kind of stands would you put on those things though, Dave? Or was that in the days when they were simply plonked on the floor or on castors? :eyebrows:
Either way, they must've sounded terrible like that unless you kneeled down on the floor when listening to music or were a midget! :mental: :lol:
Marco.
With the ProAc speakers, it was when we had quite a few stand-mount speakers but, even then, the stands tended to be around 16-18 inches high. As you might have guessed, the tweeters were firing at your knee caps unless the speaker was large.
There were few stand makers then and most made trolleys to perch the speaker on, alternatively, there were single, mass loaded columns on which to balance the larger speaker. It took a few years to get stand makers to produce sensible stands.