Recent content by RLCCM

I find B&W's to have quite a good, neutral balance and clear sound on the whole for a wide variety of music, if not the most exciting of speakers, I think it hard to go terribly wrong with a pair if your budget is tight and the price is good. Given your musical taste, it maybe worth checking for...

Good to know Cno... so no need to panic, but I do need to get my skates on to break them in! Today I had a couple of hours and insisted on some volume! Still only 1/4 up the amps dial, but I'm sure the neighbours could hear it! They really are improving rapidly! Again I'll write a fuller review...

It seems not! I cant work out how to get them on here - or for that matter, get the pop up box to work at all!

The Stirlings have arrived! I picked them up on monday. So, here's my initial report! Firstly straight out of the box, these things are impressive furniture, pretty large, though the size works well enough for me, and I think they look great, and am very happy with the build quality and looks...

I tend to prefer grills off generally - I usually find it opens the sound slightly, the grills acting as a muffler to some extent - and i find this the case for all the B&W's I've heard. I actually had a long test with PM1's recently (I was contemplating buying a pair) and found that for me...

I really expect them to be in a different league to the R300's! Though if anything can be said about them from the Turnberry test at Audio Gold, then they certainly will be! If they aren't then these speakers will be sent straight back! Will report when the time comes, hopefull not too long...

After deciding that the Prestige series are really very good - i've taken a small leap of faith in the Stirlings (bearing in mind ive not tested them, only Turnberry's) with the advice that the Stirling will be a better fit for my taste anyway in balance. I also figured it would take many more...

Yes, i think this is very close to my ideal. And without a huge amount of extra effort, probably as close as I will reasonably get, considering the effort gone in so far. So tomorrow, if I get time, I think I will put the call in to buy the Stirlings. I have also thuoght that if after some time...

Yes completely agree, Audio Gold are ... gold! thansk for the kind post, I'd be equally interested to hear what speakers you are running and how your story unfolds.

Hi all, so after a few weeks waiting with no progress I've today finally made the next big step/test forward - the big one that I've been waiting for infact. I got a chance to plug a pir of Tannoy Turnberry GR's with the same Icon Audio amp as mine (though with a different set of valves...

I would think it would depend on your room to some extent, but other than space saving, i doubt there is any benefit to the cm5 over the cm9 - the is a considerably better speaker overall, particularly for scale and bass, jusitfying its much higher rrp. if anything i would snap up the cm9's -...

dont know about your amp etc, but i have tested CM9's - I find them to be very good all-round speakers, well balanced, clear presentation that is not fatigueing, and seem to work well with a wide variety of amps and types of music. Their strength is their flexibility though - they are certainly...

From my experience here, Cno speaks a great deal of sense usually, and would agree with him here. I personally dislike the focal's. I'm looking in a similar bracket to you, and have done quite a few tests now (I have a thread somewhere not too long ago that is long and very detailed!). I find...

noted thanks. They certainly look as if they come from the same family as Harbeth, I'll certainly try to demo if I get a chance

I had a long demo on a shop with some SHL5+ in London a little while ago, I think I talked about them somewhere earlier, so wont go into detail here again. Pretty good but didnt quite do it for me, particularly when price was taken into account. If there was a pair 2nd hand at a very good price...