NEBO 6 set for November 2015

[struth]

some of those proton amps were rather good.. were a good company by Tiwanese standards. wish I was going now lol

[walpurgis]

I have a suspicion the NAD stuff came from the same company as Proton did.

[struth]

I have a suspicion the NAD stuff came from the same company as Proton did.

Indeed, Proton made a lot of NAD gear

[Floyddroid]

Grant, come on over to the dark side. It's a fun day. Hopefully the Scottish mafia will be turning up so you may be able to hitch a ride with them. There's always something interesting to see and more importantly hear and the guys are just great.

Indeed, Proton made a lot of NAD gear

[Jimbo]

What time would you like to present your gear young man?

Anytime between 1pm- 9pm thanks Steve.

[Jimbo]

Glad you are able to make it James with everything you have going on.

I have a serious intrest in the Firebottle KIN.

I will be there all day so drop it into my system anytime you like. I will have the Stello CD Transport with me and my Techie based Turntable with Linear tracking arm, this has a MM fitted at present (Goldring 1042).

I just purchased one of RFC's Reference Digital interconnects for the Transport and can confirm what other folks have said in that it is very well constructed and totally transparent, adding nothing at all to the recording, great value, as these things go.

I also now have a full set of interconnects made up of Klotz MC5000 and MS Audio plugs plumbing the active filter into the amp amongst other things.

Looking forward to giving the set up its first public airing, I have just drawn up the stands I need to make for the speakers, time is getting short, but I should have it finished in time.

Hi Ken, look forward to hearing your system and particular I am keen to hear the Goldring cartridge. I think you will be impressed with the KIN.

[Qwin]

I have a suspicion the NAD stuff came from the same company as Proton did.

Yes Proton was a Brand name started and developed for domestic hifi products by a massive electronics corporation in Tiawan. Their chairman was considered the founder of the Tiawan electronics industry (Mr Hong) and even by the 1950's they had 25 manufacturing sites in that country, much later expanding to China. NAD were a small scale marketing and Design company in the begining and had some of their early products manufactured by Proton. Some NAD models were available badged as Proton, these never seemed to be sold in the same countries, so I suspect there was an agreement made where Proton carried some of the tooling costs and was allowed to sell the product under their own name to certain markets. Companies I worked for did this all the time, we kept it simple, they had the USA we had Europe as our territory.

The two companies fell out, it is rumered because Proton made their own versions using higher quality parts, transformers, caps etc, but as there were fewer folks in the supply chain, they could undercut NAD's pricing model for model.

The products designed in house by Proton and sold exclusively under their name are the ones to watch out for and were very good, both in design and quality of parts used and were a step up from the NAD gear. At the price point, the NAD products were still pretty good and set the standard for others to attain at the time.

[struth]

Grant, come on over to the dark side. It's a fun day. Hopefully the Scottish mafia will be turning up so you may be able to hitch a ride with them. There's always something interesting to see and more importantly hear and the guys are just great.

Would love to Steve but alas my health means i cannot travel that far ar moment..pity we dont have a video/audio link lol...

[RichB]

If I can get down to pick them up next week we will have a pair of JBL 4311 there

[Qwin]

JBL 4311 - Nice.
I considered these when looking at the Yammies but couldn't find a pair this end of the country to compare.

NEBO 6 is looking like one not to miss.