You at the vino last night, Justin?
I foresee a pair of KEF R500 replacing those Charios in the not too distant future.
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You at the vino last night, Justin?
I foresee a pair of KEF R500 replacing those Charios in the not too distant future.
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Nope. Just thought that was quite fun.
Maybe a DAC shootout on the KEFs is in order. Maybe not though that Welsh abode is a long way away init?
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Aye - 3h from Brizzle.
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A change is as good as a rest?
-- yes, I know it's a mess - so sue me.
I am ~85-90% recovered now from my hearing problems.
Still over-sensitive to high frequencies which can squeal and distort, and loud music tends to blur and boom a bit.
Kind of frustrating listening to my MBL speakers, I know they can sound so much better.
So I thought I'd have a bit of fun during the ongoing recovery period and have a play with a different speaker and also scratch a long-term itch about KEF speakers. Rather astonishingly I have never owned KEF before now.
KEF R500 now is residence in a rather nice rosewood veneer.
They look techno-cool with the rather bland looking grilles off, I think.
Concentrating on small and medium scale music. The mids are a nice surprise, kind of electrostaticy in their transparency, speed and clarity - the Uni-Q driver has impressed me.
And for a small(ish) floorstander the bass is impressively deep and well-resolved.
I'll play with these a while longer and then maybe sell on or transfer to my 2nd system.
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With matching 'Lava lamp' sound filtration!
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Never thought you'd move the MBLs! It's been a few years.
Chris.
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The MBLs are just resting, Chris.
No plans to move them on, even after over 8 years now! - just trying to be patient as my hearing slowly improves!
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Lemmy joke.
How do you sell a deaf geezer a frog?
WANNA BUY A FROG!!!??? (You're supposed to yell that bit).
Alas, Lemmy is no more
Yes, I realise that.
Coming from me, sitting in a room with 4 sets of speakers, plus the 3090s in living room.
Mind you, i ......might.....be selling the Calliopes, so nowt is set in stone.
Like many things -as you know from your 'swapping' hobby - it's the experience, not the keeping, often.
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Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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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.
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