I've been buying a fair amount of gear in the past year or so. only to find out that everything i bought didn't sound as good as what i had in the first place!i still miss my Bozak 302A-Urbans, but just too big for our place. i replaced them with with KEF Calinda (think big LS3/5A with regards to sound). that was such a slam dunk sonically, that i started buying more stuff, trying to improve my system. BAD MOVE!
traded the bozaks for KEF 104/2. arguably Raymond Cooke's greatest achievement. blech! huge mids, boomy and rolled off bass (even with 240wpc thrown at them). just very colored. makes the bozaks sound like studio monitors ;-)
janszen Z-200. will keep them, but the power supplies sure are hokey. and you can't really kick the crap out of them to rock. they'll just arc. awesome for jazz though.
Thiel 03A - couldn't turn them down for $60. ratty cabinets annoyed me though. sold them to my friend who's a great woodworker.
Quad 405-2 amp/34 preamp. $250 for both in minty condition. had my friend go through them and mod them with burr-brown op amps. sound nice, but they ain't no macs!
while waiting for him to finish, i decided to buy an 8 month old mint Quad 909 for $700. everyone across the pond has such a hard on for this thing, i figured i had to try. beside KEF and Quad are matches made in heaven, right? eh, sounded decent, but never really pumped my nads, the 405-2 actually sounded much more musical.
so, back to my Calindas and McIntosh MC60's after a year of playing around...
still miss my bozaks too :-(
see ya,
Robby
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Topic - How many of you are back where you started? - centaurus3200 11:15:05 05/07/07 (30)
- I guess I've just been lucky - E-Stat 13:24:24 05/08/07 (0)
- Re: How many of you are back where you started? - Brian Levy 07:35:48 05/08/07 (1)
- yeah, but where would i put everything? - centaurus3200 10:30:00 05/08/07 (0)
- Re: How many of you are back where you started? - kenster 18:52:17 05/07/07 (2)
- Re: How many of you are back where you started? - scrooie looie 20:28:15 05/07/07 (1)
- Re: How many of you are back where you started? - kenster 20:38:18 05/07/07 (0)
- Re: How many of you are back where you started? - Bold Eagle 14:19:43 05/07/07 (23)
- Surprised that Shure made your list. - HamBone77 06:34:59 05/08/07 (15)
- Re: Surprised that Shure made your list. - Bold Eagle 11:04:09 05/08/07 (12)
- The Shure advantage.... - BarneyT 16:35:34 05/08/07 (5)
- Re: The Shure advantage.... - Crazy Dave 09:41:18 05/09/07 (2)
- Re: The Shure advantage.... - BarneyT 14:04:55 05/09/07 (1)
- Re: The Shure advantage.... - Crazy Dave 07:26:05 05/10/07 (0)
- Re: The Shure advantage.... - Bold Eagle 18:31:14 05/08/07 (0)
- Some decisions I have lived to regret....... - BarneyT 16:53:45 05/08/07 (0)
- Hmmm - E-Stat 13:38:08 05/08/07 (4)
- Re: Hmmm - Bold Eagle 16:01:21 05/08/07 (3)
- In what table did you use it - E-Stat 19:25:30 05/08/07 (2)
- Re: In what table did you use it - Bold Eagle 20:09:28 05/08/07 (1)
- Re: In what table did you use it - Crazy Dave 09:49:43 05/09/07 (0)
- Sometimes we get lucky. - HamBone77 12:16:27 05/08/07 (0)
- Re: Surprised that Shure made your list. - 33 1/3 11:02:13 05/08/07 (0)
- Re: Surprised that Shure made your list. - Crazy Dave 08:22:02 05/08/07 (0)
- Re: How many of you are back where you started? - centaurus3200 14:39:04 05/07/07 (6)
- Re: How many of you are back where you started? - Bold Eagle 15:14:53 05/07/07 (5)
- FWIW KEF105 vs B&W801 vs NS1000's - GRH 19:17:28 05/07/07 (1)
- Re: FWIW KEF105 vs B&W801 vs NS1000's - Bold Eagle 10:54:07 05/08/07 (0)
- yeah, you need tubes with the Yamahammer NS-1000 - centaurus3200 15:19:28 05/07/07 (2)
- Re: yeah, you need tubes with the Yamahammer NS-1000 - pete the bully 17:24:03 05/07/07 (1)
- the NS-1000 are fairly efficient - centaurus3200 17:33:44 05/07/07 (0)