CJSF said:The_Lhc said:CJSF said:the 'giant killing' reputation of the amp I am now using is well founded. I believe, few would understand or would want to agree, thats fine by me, each to his own.
Now, I'm curious, what are you using these days?
Hi The_Lhc, all goes back a long way, I changed amps when I was in the middle of tweaking my turn table. Better and better presentation then I got the feeling the amp was not quite keeping up? So I went from the Croft hybrid to the full valve Icon ST40 MkIII.
The result, a smoother presentation. I thought it was OK, but one has to be honest, I was not 100% happy, got involved in valve rolling (changeing valve makes, they all sound different and can be very expensive). That was 18 months ago, now all that TT tweaking has finished. So I turned my attention to the room accustics . . . this is when I started to realise the things that I thought was the early Croft amp were actualy poor room accustics.
A long hard re think . . . dig the Croft out of the loft, with my bodged up room treatment in place, the Croft had a presentation I prefered. That was over a month ago, thats not to say the Icon is a bad amp, far from it, but the things I liked about the Croft 3 years ago when I first bought it have become more obvious now the 'room is working better'.
Minimal interest from the forum, so I am doing my own thing, I have tried to pass on what can be achived with thought, a little effort and not a lot of cash. I think I could have avoided throwing a big amount of cash at a problem 18 months ago that in truth did not sit with the amp . . . The next issue, it is worth upgrading the Croft to the 'R' (regulated) model . . . ? Glen Croft can rebuild my curent bassic to the 'R' specification.
But you see The_Lhc, I doubt any one will be interested, I'm waiting for my dealer to get the 'R' model in stock so that I can have it home for a few days? But that is another story to unfold that I will probably keep to myself.
CJSF
The_Lhc said:andyjm said:The_Lhc said:Freddy58 said:I think one of the problems we have here, is that the forum is a bit sterile, no sense of fun. Just my opinion, others are available
Spend a week in the Sonos forum and then tell me this place is no fun. This place is like Saturday Night Live compared to that forum. Drier than the Sahara desert that lot...
Ahh. You mean the 'Sonos can do no wrong' forum? When I get a few minutes I will post a summary of the 'journey' I have had getting a whole-house Sonos system to work. Monumental pain in the backside.
What's your username on there? Couldn't find anything under the username you use here. There's a similar username but that hasn't made any posts according to the search function.
Thats a shame too.El Hefe said:If only the website was not changed... I would post more here. Too many instances where my post was triggered as spam.
El Hefe said:Too many instances where my post was triggered as spam.
andyjm said:The_Lhc said:Freddy58 said:I think one of the problems we have here, is that the forum is a bit sterile, no sense of fun. Just my opinion, others are available
Spend a week in the Sonos forum and then tell me this place is no fun. This place is like Saturday Night Live compared to that forum. Drier than the Sahara desert that lot...
Ahh. You mean the 'Sonos can do no wrong' forum? When I get a few minutes I will post a summary of the 'journey' I have had getting a whole-house Sonos system to work. Monumental pain in the backside.
I read your posts. *smile*Freddy58 said:CJSF, I wouldn't feel too badly, plenty of my posts get ignored
TrevC said:My sister has a Sonos soundbar and sub. It sounds OK, but no better than that. My decidedly ancient budget Sony / B&W / BK system leaves it for dead.
CJSF said:just throw money at it and change the box . . .
The_Lhc said:CJSF said:just throw money at it and change the box . . .
To be fair though you have changed a few boxes yourself, if memory serves.
CJSF said:So I turned my attention to the room accustics . . . this is when I started to realise the things that I thought was the early Croft amp were actualy poor room accustics.
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Minimal interest from the forum, so I am doing my own thing, I have tried to pass on what can be achived with thought, a little effort and not a lot of cash.
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But you see The_Lhc, I doubt any one will be interested, I'm waiting for my dealer to get the 'R' model in stock so that I can have it home for a few days? But that is another story to unfold that I will probably keep to myself.
CJSF
DocG said:As for 'minimal interest from the forum': the thing is that the writer doesn't know who reads his posts. A lack of replies doesn't always equal a lack of interest!
Andy Clough said:El Hefe said:Too many instances where my post was triggered as spam.
El Hefe, you've been upgraded to 'trusted user' status so that should sort the spam problem.
Freddy58 said:CJSF, I wouldn't feel too badly, plenty of my posts get ignored
CJSF said:Sadly, one feels that the forum in general does not think the way of 'fine tuning what one has', (unless its cables of course*dash1*) just throw money at it and change the box . . . depresses me to the point of not being bothered to post, few will understand, get on and do my own thing?