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They look very nice indeed. If I ever go back overseas, I will get a pair of gloss white Planets. Their design simply works better in highly reflective rooms and they look gorgeous to me.

That music sounds like a recording taken from factory machinery.

Would help if he played some music on them instead of that racket.

His 'cabinet of curiosities'.

Nice one of Spicas with Macintosh too.

Used to fancy an early Classe Pre/Power.. Cant understand Italian i wernt brought up in a chippy in Glasgow see

Hard to judge anything from these videos as it is and the ripping distortion doesn't help.

IfI Audio Stereo 50: What a gorgeous wee thing this is. If I was in the market for another amp forbthe bedroom, this would be it.....used though.

It looks a little more 'sober' compared to a Leben.

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Interesting. But warning, the content is 37 min long.

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Not sure you'd enjoy the speakers though. At least they don't take fillings out.. Add up the boxes and cost the systems out - and then look at a pair of active ATC 50ASL's and cost these out as well

Even with 10, 0000 Euros budget he can't fix the problem of a  suspended floor so I suppose that's why he doesn't bring it up. 

Two issues I have with what he says:

1) the more treatment the better - no, you can go too far. The ultimate damped room is an anechoic chamber and you don't want to be listening in one of those.
2) Pursuit of flat in room response - which will sound too toppy. You want the FR raised in the bass and gradually sloping down to the top end to allow for hearing sensitivity. 

Point 2 refers to the 'House Curve' 

''When you have flattened out the analyzer’s display curve as much as possible, you’re done with this portion of the adjustments. But you’re nowhere near finished. When you play music through your system at this point, you might not be completely pleased with the result. With the equalizer you have compensated for all sorts of factors, but you have also run up against an important psychoacoustic effect: Flat response doesn’t sound all that great to most people."


More hear

www.hometheatershack.com/forums/rew-forum/96-house-curve-what-why-you-need-how-do.html

In an typical domestic room you''ll get bass enhancement from the boundaries, and the furniture, carpet and curtains (and any clutter) will absorb and scatter some of the higher frequencies.  You design a speaker to have a flat response in an anechoic chamber so that when it goes in a typical room it will gain bass and lose high frequency and essentially give a 'house curve' , which is what will sound 'best' to the vast majority of people. This is because we are more sensitive to higher frequencies than to low ones. So we will perceive the sound  as being  'balanced' i.e having neither too much nor too little bass or top. 

What a great find!