Justin & Jerry's Hifi Blog

[hornucopia]

Well, age inevitably reduces the capacity to hear higher frequencies anyway......

Doesn't make my dislike of screeching violins any less, though.

First I've heard of this, Jerry! What happened, mate? In any case, hope you recover soon and get things back to 100%

Hey, maybe now's the time you'll 'appreciate' a nice pair of Tannoys!

Marco.

[montesquieu]

Attachment 23988That's not a HORN, these are......(copyright Croc Dundee)

aka, world's biggest car speakers?

(Bought these cinema speakers at Auction Room here. We put them in my friend's Citroen Garage roof where they sat for the next 30 years, running from a Car radio!. Garage now gone, with speakers-probably ditched by the developer.)

Cotham in Bristol? Looks familiar!

[User211]

Shirehampton?

[diceman]

Thanks Marco, but Tannoy? No, I don't think I ever got deaf enough to listen to Tannoys.

Enjoying the KEFs, but the Plan is to move them on to my 2nd system to make room for the Podium Sounds 1.5 that are due to arrive on Thursday.


--- t'was a summer flu virus that turned nastier and invaded my lug holes. Still slowly clearing up.

Podium sounds... Interesting, I purchased my old Martin Logans from a guy that was helping develop them (ex Wharfedale Technical Director I believe). Seems they are NXT but tuned by ear not by calculation??.

They did provide a very large soundstage and for large scale productions were very good indeed but I suspect may struggle with Porcupine tree or Justin's banging dance ;-) Enjoy...

[jandl100]

I leave Justin's banging dance (and Porcupine Tree) to Justin these days.
Looking forward to hearing the Podiums on my classical choons.

[hornucopia]

Great on solo guitar, acoustic instruments, voice.

Voice has to be the ultimate test. from birth, humans are minutely atuned to voice.

[User211]

I leave Justin's banging dance (and Porcupine Tree) to Justin these days.
Looking forward to hearing the Podiums on my classical choons.

Hopefully they're sufficiently crap to make that stringy, screechy shite that is classical sound great then.

Only joking... (that run away emoticon but on a mobile)

[jandl100]

New set of speakers arriving for my main rig on Thursday, so the KEF R500 have been moved to my 2nd system.

Actually, they sound quite a lot better there - in my main rig I can't place the speakers closer than about 2 foot to the back wall. That is just fine for the MBLs that like space around them, but the KEFs really appreciate a bit of enforcement support from an adjacent boundary.
They really fill out tonally and are sounding very good.
Here they are just a couple of inches from the window.

.... and another chance for Marco to see his favourite carpet.

[Frazeur1]

That carpet sure does tie the room together, Jerry! Looking forward to your Podiums arriving, was a speaker I thought I would like a chance to hear at some point! Will be great fun for you!

And damn! I am more scared of the Medusa looking plant there, yikes!

[Primalsea]

Nice second system, Jerry. My second system is a lone Sonos One!