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Thread: Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beobloke View Post
    Poking red hot knitting needles into your ears is preferable to listening to Kans.

    IMHO, of course.
    Perhaps they should have called it the Linn 'Krap'.
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    I seem to remember 'tin can' was the phrase.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pharos View Post
    I seem to remember 'tin can' was the phrase.
    I like that, along with the Linn 'Army Barrack' speaker and 'Tick Tock' arm.
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    Useful looking four way input selector.

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nobsound-...53.m1438.l2649
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    The ad says the system is from 1991 which looks about right for the electronics but I reckon those speakers are from the early 1980s or maybe late 1970s.
    The branding of the speakers matches the rest of the kit, I reckon they were contemporary. I'm surprised the woofer crosses over so high in a 5 way design, I suspect they are compromised ie. a bit rubbish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Apart from the Linn Index. Notable for its flat, two dimensional and uninvolving sound. In fact, you could pair them with an Audiolab 8000a amp and produce a new standard for dullness.

    Which could possibly be partly countered by employing QED Silver Anniversary speaker leads (god, what a horrible thought).
    Strange how we all hear differently, I quite liked the Index, had a pair for a while, used them on stands away from wall though, admittedly low on bass but the midrange was very sweet.
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    I had the Linn Index with the matching stands. Paired with a NAD amp they were truly the most boring things I have ever heard. Heybrook HB2 to the rescue if I remember correctly! They looked great though.

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    There is for me something just lovely about so much of the older kit, this amp and also the RtoR on another thread.

    It seems as though there was so much conviction and effort gone into them compared with now, a bit parallel to a record deck compared with a CD player, the latter being comparatively bland, soulless, even insipid.

    It is hard to argue that Hi-Fi has not moved on technically and in sound quality, and this raises questions about how we choose Hi-Fi, perhaps with our eyes and not with our ears.

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    That is a cracking looking amp. I have to agree Dennis, I don’t think sound quality has moved on at all in the last 40 years. Perhaps in the uber expensive high end but those are waters I don’t fish in.

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