Recent content by Mr. C Nation

It's got a fabric covered backside! Which not even the cleaner will see. And some sort of cable tidy arrangements! And a pole mounting so you can watch it while you levitate 2.5m above floor level! They have taken another leaf from the Dyson book of absurd, pointless features at ridiculously...

" a nominal sub" ... What is a nominal sub? There's no such thing. As more and more resources are available as accesible only by sub, they all add up. 10€ p.m. is not nominal if one's electricity monthy has gone from 80€ p.m. to 147€ p.m o/night. Y.T. ad free. NYTimes. it goes on and on. A...

Chapeau, monsieur, for sticking with great kit that produces the result that you enjoy. and not chasing shadows 'upgrading' . You mention your hearing 'fine tuning'. This is an issue not many hi-fi 'enthusiasts' take into account. Apart from the 'law of diminishing returns' in terms of the...

First, as a 73 y.o. old timer I'd ike to revive me! :D. And I'd like to reappear as at the time M.F. released the B1. This 25W input + vol integrated was, in the final sentence of a review by The Gramaphone mag as, "Unnecessarily good." It was better than that. I had mine for 30 years [and...

The Musical Fidelity B1 was described by the reviewer in The Gramaphone magazine as "Unnecessarily good .. " An odd thing to say but it was superb. I had one [and a back-up in case of disaster] for 30 years. I would still have it if I didn't need digital inputs. I now have the default Marantz...

If only MF would release a replacement for the B1, in spec, performance [comment in a review in Gramaphone mag when B1 introduced ".... unneccessarily good"] and price. Something to go for instead of the ubiquitous Marantz X000X I had my B1 [and another on standby if the original ever went...

I had a Musical Fidelity B1 from very early in its production run. I bought it because it was reviewed in the hardware review section of The Gramophone, an august mag that was 80% reviews of recordings [of which +/- 70% 'classical'] and 20% reviews of hardware commensurate with the quality of...

£6800 for a tuner that doesn't do DAB or streaming? XX millions listen to the radio. XX millions minus a very, very small number listen to a 'kitchen tranny', FM in the car or a streamed radio station. What is there on AM? I have an American friend who has been a big fan of 'The Archers' since...

I see you started in 1979, presumably the launch of the paper magazine. The Quad 405 was on sale during this period, up to 1982. It - and it's Mk2 version, are still regarded as amplifiers of the highest quality, so much so that they were power amps of choice for many small recording studios...

Yes... adding gold [Au] to anything makes it sound better ! ;)

"vinyl tends to sound distinctively warm and full and… can I say ‘alive’? While CD has a more consistent, crisp, clean and accurate presentation, as vinyl inherently doesn’t deal as well with extreme highs or lows, or large dynamic ranges " You can say that again! Friends of mine, the late Tony...

A friend who spent 30 years as an engineer in the major recording studios of London - Sony Hit Factory, Virgin etc had an expression for the type of person who believes that superseded tech such as vinyl is superior to correctly recorded and masted digital - "The Golden Ears Brigade". These...

The music reproduction industry now has two options - 1] to make products which major on the latest technology, for these products to 'do more' in terms of connectivity, control, boil an egg, let the cat out .... As technology throws up more and more things that electronics can 'do', there's...

Assuming the correction above is correct, here's another: "Amazon has decided against matching Spotify’s free tier " Wrong. I listen to Amz for free every night. It goes like this :- "Alexa - play me 'Blue in Green' by Miles Davis." Alexa then gives a lecture on not playing specific tracks...

Then don't spend the money! Listen to the music! At any price point in the world of 'hi-fi' it is possible to spend money and get apparently 'superior' gear. What Hi-Fi exists to make this point. But it is content that is paramount. You already have what makes you "very happy indeed." So -...