Recent content by Oldfart

So irrelevant, unprovoked sniping at other people’s choices is justified as sarcasm, the lowest form of wit. Keep digging your hole - a little deeper and you might encounter TrevTheTroll. Ideal bedfellows. I left this forum years ago and recently returned. Bad decision as little has changed.

And you accuse others of irrelevant thread creep? Fwiiw, In my experience, playing SACDs on a dedicated player is considerably more rewarding than using a Blu-ray player Based on marantz ud 7007 vs SA14s1se. Agree, SACDs are my favourite medium and good to see new recordings are being produced...

Sorry, sudden onset dyslexia. one more, The Curse. Agnes Obel. The Wuhan Lab open day.

Why worry. Dire Straits/ featuring: E Macron little lies. Fleetwood Mac/ f: Doris Johnson Wont get fooled again. The Who/ f:mat hancock Knockimg on Heavens Door. Dylan/president Bolsorano of Brazil The End. The Doors.Featuring VDL & EU Question of (bank) Balance. Moody Blues - AstraZeneca/Oxford...

After 47 years of grills on, Epicons grills off. Sound even more open and don’t look too bad naked.

Thank you. Although I was more than happy with MarantzPM14/ Rubicons, lockdown 1 and being Clinically extremely vulnerable / shielded caused a moment or two of impulsive extravagance. Not regretted as the sentence goes on. And on. There was a generous trade in deal on Sonus Faber Olympica...

+1, but unashamedly biased! Had mine for nearly a year, paired initially with Dali Rubicon 6s now Epicon 6s. An amp that my son in law will be enjoying after I am gone, or gone deaf! In saying that, I have a possibly Luddite view that a higher percentage of your budget should be spent on...

Hi Doug, sounding damn good is vindication in my book. Ken Ishawata always said the final product development was done by ear and his was better than most. I’m sure he didn’t go down the delta sigma route without very good reason. Glad you are enjoying the Rubies. Agree. Price will indeed be...

Just announced on their Japan website is this upgrade to my UD 505NT. Instead of using the top of the range dual AKM DAC chips, it employs delta sigma upconversion of PCM to high speed 1 bit DSD. Adopted by Marantz for the SA10, KI ruby and latest CD players, PS Audio Directstream DAC, MBL and...

Can highly recommend All Ears suggestion of Luxman L507uxii. RRP £5800, but £5000 from Nintonics. They also gave a generous trade in on Marantz PM14 and have a personal delivery service so no DPD lottery. Mine had JAL air cargo stickers, so no weeks in shipping containers crossing the equator...

TrevC, You are obviously a discerning gentleman, so would highly recommend that you try some rather than spouting relentless, dismissive, mocking criticism at other people’s choices. As we do not know your set up, have to guess that it highly resolving and thus would make even small...

Dobrae Utro, if my memory is correct! Never been to St. Petersburg, but looked good from the air as flew over many times en route to Japan and Korea. It took about 8 hours @900kph (570mph) to cross your vast country and exit near Khabarovsk. Good luck with he search for speakers. Dasvidaniya!

As Nopiano says, a huge and very diverse choice. I bought my Epicon 6 s unheard due lockdown, based on experience of lesser DALIs, but his advice much safer. If your dad liked Dynaudio, the new Contour 60s allegedly have outstanding bass and new soft dome tweeters. Sticking with Denmark and...

Hi Oliver, I bought their previous model, the Studio 20se, in 1995 and kept them for 20 years. Agree with others, they need plenty of head room to give their best. My Cyrus 2/PSX sounded bright and lacked bass. A Meridian pre/power proved much better and these are lovely speakers. WHat Hifi...

Down to scraping the barrel as usual.