Recent content by elliswils

I put together a second hand/budget system using eBay and ran 3030 on their dedicated stands with a 3070 sub and the system sounded fantastic, better than systems/speakers costing twice their retail value. I drove them using Vincent tube amp (SV200 and CD200; Google them their German designed...

No, sorry.

This post will get shouted down. B&W speakers are known to be bright (no bass) and if partnered with a bright amp just sound horrible... Rumor has it that Rotel amps favour/are tuned to suit B&W speakers...I don't know if that's true or not but I've seen it written often enough to think there...

I have a pair of P7s and Px8 S2s and although the Px8s, with the bass turned up are good to OK, the P7s with no adjustment at all have deeper bass and a broader sound stage. As is often the case IMHO, new and improved isn't always so...

I still run a pair of Mission Monitors from 1980-ish and a Rebel Revolver turntable which (I believe) was the forerunner of the remote motor belt driven turntables of today.

OK, there are some on the Forum who say and or think I'm a bass head. Not true but I advocate for a sub on all systems whether it is in a car, bedroom or living space. Loudness is not how to drive a sub or get the best out of it. There is a lot of misconceptions about subs. They do fill out...

Wow, that provoked a reply or two... I owned a pair of 683 on a NAD outfit for years and they were great, not much bass and a little on the bright side but the amp had treble and bass control and between those and an ASW610 I fixed that. When I came to upgrade/renew I bought a Cyrus 82 DAC with...

I used to be a big B&W fan but when I auditioned the 600 and 700 S2 and S3 I could not believe how rubbish they were when compared to other similar and lower priced speakers... I know they are loved by WHF and many here but I would urge you to try other speakers. If you insist on B&Ws then...

Whatever you do, and you'll get no end of recommendations, go to a shop hook up the Audiolab set up (or use the shops) and listen to as many as you can. Every time I do, I am struck by what a difference all the components make to a system. That is why 'matching' is soo important. I've found...

All of the above is true and great advise. BUT Don't be put off buying one, or better two. I used to run only one B&W ASW610 and when upgrading my speakers a while back and listening to different options tried two ASW610s (you plug the red pre-out to the right-hand red RCA subwoofer terminal...

Yamaha, Technics, Sony or Pioneer are all good decks. I use a TEAC W-890-R twin deck which is great. I bought it new from Richer Sounds about 12-years ago when my Pioneer packed up. I've put together a 'tool kit' for repairing tapes way back when I used a Sharp 'walkman' player for my daily...

Spendor A7s just before they hiked the price up as luck would have it. Beauties... That said, I use a pair of B&W ASW610s with them (and the B&W 600s and 700s I had previously due to the lack of bass in both speakers) which I still use with them just to go that little bit lower. B&W have a good...

Two other e-mails dropped in when I pushed 'post' so that should now read: "The best tip is the one three e-mails above...go listen to them all"

The best tip is the one just above this, go listen to the different combinations before you buy. A couple of years back, I spent a long time setting up demos and listening to combos before buying when I traded in all my NAD and B&W and splashed out on the next level up. Having done so, I could...

Tascam and TEAC were the last two manufacturers to make cassette decks, although I have sneaking feeling it is one factory making the same deck with two different name plates... There are some very good decks out there and it comes down to doing the research and looking for a good 'classic'...