Recent content by Fandango Andy

The graphs are like reviews and recommendations, they are a starting point. With any component. In a system, there is no substitute for sitting back and listening.

Fancy cables have more conductivity, more conductivity equals more volume. Music sounds better louder, so we should all turn the volume up! Got it😉

I have to agree more with @AI ears assessment more than yours. All amps and loudspeakers working together sounds like a recipe for mediocrity.

I think your repair guy is looking at it backwards. An amp doesn't necessarily perform better with demanding speakers. Some amps are more capable of driving demanding speakers than others. I have no experience of your amp, but would hazard a guess looking at the specs that it does drive...

Just looked that up, if I have the right one, that looks. Like a nine channel receiver, is that correct? Firstly, I would check the settings, make sure the amp understands you are only using two channels. Ultimately, I would recommend you invest in a centre speaker.

Or because they don't know how to position their speakers to get the best out of them.

As others have mentioned, I believe the thread is talking about the original Cyrus One from the 1980's. As for the four stars, What HiFi stars are price related, so a £699 (as the Cyrus was in 2016) would have probably been better than a £500 five star amp. HiFi is a very personal thing. From...

As soon as I saw this headline it reminded me of this article: https://www.whathifi.com/features/old-amplifier-vs-new-amplifier-which-is-better

This makes more sense now, I think you made a mistake on the original post, you described you Pioneer as VSA-LX805 which only came out a couple of years ago. I see you have the older model, that wasn't as well regarded for music. Any one of the amps you have mentioned should be good. I'm...

if its an online purchase (in the UK) you get 14 cooling off period.

I'm not sure if it applies to all things, but I have been told "refurbished" covers a few different things: Online purchases returned under 14-day "cooling-off" period. cleaned an repackaged. New but faulty or cosmetically damaged items that are repaired. Second hand items that are rebuilt and...

I have no experience of either so can't help there, I'm lots of others will. I do wonder if one box is the future? It makes a lot of sense from the point of view of taking up less space and looking neat. However, streamers and DACs are getting better, and cheaper. If I was starting again...

I have never heard of them. I googled and found this on another forum: https://pinkfishmedia.net/forum/threads/help-identify-these-lq-loudspeakers.138759/

Not that stupid, lots of people ask the same question!

You are spending a lot of money with low expectations. Let me give you some context. If you wanted to replicate my system: amp, about £250 when new 30 years ago, you can pick one up for less than £100. Speakers, about £600 when new, also about 30 years ago. Around £150 second hand now...