The Alfa Romeo awards ...

[wee tee cee]

Speakers, I have to agree about statics 57s or 63s. Also horns and maybe a BBC Spendor model.

A valve amp.

A pre/power set up.

An off board DAC

[hermit]

In my more affluent youth I went mad for Alfas: Alfasud TI Green Cloverleaf, Alfasud Sprint Speciale, 1600 GT Junior, 33 Green Cloverleaf, 75 2.5 V6, 75 3.0 V6 Green Cloverleaf.

To my mind the hifi brand that most reminds me of Alfa is Yamaha: great sounding, distinctive designs and they built several classics over the years that remain collectable.

[petrat]

That Yamaha gear looks awesome, Paul.

Surprised no-one has mentioned a certain Fink company yet ... even if only to annoy a particular forum fan

My personal Alfa moment was a pair of Audio Physics Tempo 2 speakers. Contemporary styling, beautifully made, and possibly the only speakers I've owned that my wife actually wanted in the living room. Trouble was, they worked best well out in the room, about a cricket-pitch apart, with the listener more or less sat in the middle. Brilliant imaging, but never did find an amp that made them sound anything but teutonically precise.

[Jason P]

Gotta be an LP12 hasn't it? Looks lovely, but temperamental and hard to keep in fettle, sounds nice but not to everyone's taste... ;-)

[walpurgis]

Gotta be an LP12 hasn't it? Looks lovely, but temperamental and hard to keep in fettle, sounds nice but not to everyone's taste... ;-)

Surely a Sondek is more like a Lada. An old design concept pinched from somebody else. Basic in principle, but prone to being temperamental and requiring regular attention. It does the job but but time has moved on and modern products are so much easier to live with.

[sumday]

nad 3020
any 1970s british cottage built speaker sporting kef b200 bass and audax softdome tweeter
nagaoka cartridge
and my personal favorite....any silver Japanese tuner from the 70s with a balanced tuning wheel allowing a quick span of the fm band with one fast turn....

if the above jap tuner lights up in the dark like frikkin blackpool....award yourself an extra prize!!!!

NIGE.

[BTH K10A]

Wonderful sound and great retro looks but is so easy to damage



However I'm not sure any piece of hifi can match up to this

http://otoworls.blogspot.co.uk/2012/...ninfarina.html

[tannoy man]

I love an Alfa, Ive owned a GTV 6 2.5 and my brother had an Alfetta 1.8, and two Sprints, the earlier 1.5 Sprint was more fun to drive in the wet than any other car Ive driven. I once went to view an Alfetta 2.0 at a dealers and he had a Lancia Beta coupe, it was one of the last production 2.0 IE so no rust issues. I bought it and it was the best handling car Ive ever owned.

Back to HI FI, My Sondeck LP12 would drive me nuts, sounded great one week and shit a week later
Audiolab 8000a was always shutting itself down when using my Electrostatic Headphones
Logic DM101 MK1, The belt would slip when playing at 45rpm

[Macca]

Never owned an Alfa but my hi-fi equiv would most likely be the Lowther Acoustas I once had. £20 punt so can't complain but they were not for me. I sold the drivers to a dealer who had my arm off for them (so clearly some do like them) and turned the cabs into a PA system.

[Barry]

Never owned an Alfa but my hi-fi equiv would most likely be the Lowther Acoustas I once had. £20 punt so can't complain but they were not for me. I sold the drivers to a dealer who had my arm off for them (so clearly some do like them) and turned the cabs into a PA system.

I lived with a pair of Lowther Acoustas (fitted with PM6 drive units). Like most horn speakers they were sensitive (6W maximum), and displayed great transient behaviour: percussive instruments such as piano sounded very realistic, but they were coloured much like Heinz tomato soup.