Recent content by megatombomb

I forgot to mention as well as the good advice, research, luck etc that there was a lot of money involved too :doh: But you definitely only live once ;)

Thankyou all for for sticking with me. I committed the cardinal sin of buying hi-fi without listening to it first but through a lot of research, good advice and some assumption and speculation ive lucked out with exactly the sound I was searching for. Thanks for replying again Mac, CNo and...

Thanks, CNo. Its been along time waiting. I'm glad its all gonna be working for winter where it'll help keep me warm. Literally! The long winter here wont seem as long I expect this time. I have yet to hear evidence of the slow/sloppy bass one can expect from some valve amps. Something...

News indeed. Very good news :grin: The amps were set up half an hour ago and fired up and first good news is they work faultlessly. There's the usual mild hum/hiss but its inaudible as soon as the music comes on at even low volume. Stupidly i've spent the last 4 weeks waiting for their...

Hello all, Over a month has past since i mentioned the Icon 845 power amps i purchased were faulty and it has been a hard task for the man who has been looking at them. They have both rather oddly suffered from the exact same fault. Each amp has a problem with its smoothing capacitor which...

Hello all, Over a month has past since i mentioned the Icon 845 power amps i purchased were faulty and it has been a hard task for the man who has been looking at them. They have both rather oddly suffered from the exact same fault. Each amp has a problem with its smoothing capacitor which...

Just a quick update to say the dealer I purchased the power amps off have very kindly offered to immediately come and collect them and sort them out. I sadly cant get them back to them until late next week but they appear to be very helpful at this stage and for me ive waited months already so...

Cheers guys I will be in touch with Icon audio asap. Its Unlikely I guess to be the pre amp at fault as its all brand new but that doesn't mean it cant be. I have checked as much as I am confident to check and gonna call it quits before I damage something or myself even. Such a stressful day!

Ok so now they all work. Sort of. It indeed is blown fuses on what I think are 4 out of 6 sockets of a posh mains extension. The 3 icons were attached to 4 of these sockets and the 4th socket was feeding my MA subwoofer. Now I did plug the subwoofer into one of the pre-outs on the icon...

Hi Cno. Glad you are still reading this thread, sorry i'm not able to report on how wonderful these amps should sound. The disappointment is overwhelming right now. I need to log out and go and do something. Anything!

Well the moment came today, finally after months since arriving ive unboxed the Icon pre and power amps and got them all hooked up to the CDP and speakers in the new room. I have been gagging to listen to this setup for what seems an age. I carefully followed the instructions of installing the...

Hello Mac, Indeed i still exist :) I have been a busy boy. Thanks for the headsup on those Tannoy's. I wont deny they are the speakers i would love to own oneday but for now i am spent. Literally. A big chunk of the budget has gone on developing a large unused room at home (i think i...

Good to hear CNo re clean sounding speakers generally suiting valve amps. The most notable thing about the GX's is the increased scale, detail and most of all sheer cleanliness with it that they have bought to familiar recordings on familiar electronics. And Mac...am indeed waiting on a pair...

Thanks Mac... especially for putting up with my poorly written and grammatically useless posts like the last one! If the Icons/Marantz combo tames some of the brightness while maintaining the detail and clarity i think i will have unexpectedly found what i was looking for! Will still save up...

Early impressions of the new GX300 speakers... First of all as mentioned i am yet unable to hook them upto the Icon audio amps and Marantz cdp (until late July) and i have for 24hrs had them running off a Pioneer SCLX85 av amp and Marantz UD7007 BDP. The speakers are renowned to take well over...