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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 5:55:10 GMT
The design is musically way ahead of anything else out there that I have heard in nearly 50 years of listening to hi-fi and pro speakers (Richard)
Wow ...... Cubettes. 🙄
Well if it's your trumpet, I guess your allowed too blow it ...!!🎺
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Post by antonio on Feb 14, 2019 6:52:36 GMT
Self praise is no praise at all.
I will say though, I have never heard a better £600 speaker than my Cube 3's.
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Post by savvypaul on Feb 14, 2019 7:19:41 GMT
The design is musically way ahead of anything else out there that I have heard in nearly 50 years of listening to hi-fi and pro speakers (Richard) Wow ...... Cubettes. 🙄 Well if it's your trumpet, I guess your allowed too blow it ...!!🎺 The statement is the personal subjective opinion of the author. Others may hold different opinions, but it is, inarguably, his opinion. I suspect he would also point to the large archive of customer reviews and general feedback on his Hi-Fi Subjectivist forum (including several glowing testimonials from yourself about his amplifiers). |
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Post by macca on Feb 14, 2019 12:26:00 GMT
How about this one?
'Red Dawn cables allow your system to take that final leap from creating enjoyable music to experiencing a true performance that will make standard cabling seem intolerable'
Intolerable! That cracks me up.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 12:51:55 GMT
No qualms about NVA gear.
Just thought the statement funny as fuk considering he owns the company.
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Post by macca on Feb 14, 2019 13:13:29 GMT
Chord Hugo Mscaler:
'The Hugo M Scaler is a highly advanced standalone upscaler capable of redefining sound quality from digital audio.'
How does it do that? Lets hit the 'Technical Spec' tab and see:
FPGA:
Xilinx XC7A200T
Filter tap length:
1,015,808 WTA taps
Dimensions:
235 x 40.5 x 236mm (WxHxD)
Weight:
2.55kg
Oh.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 16:32:44 GMT
No qualms about NVA gear. Just thought the statement funny as fuk considering he owns the company. Do you still use your NVA gears Mr Jammy, or have you found some other gears that you find to be better to your ears ? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 19:11:40 GMT
Nope Vlad flogged the lot to Ali T.
Heading off on yet another hifi journey, hopefully this will be the last one.
This hobbies a disease I tells ya.....💀☠️💀
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 19:21:14 GMT
Nope Vlad flogged the lot to Ali T. Heading off on yet another hifi journey, hopefully this will be the last one. This hobbies a disease I tells ya.....💀☠️💀 Interested to hear of your new...Better for you ? Direction, It is why I dismiss absolutist claims from invested parties particularly traders....we are all different in between the ears |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 19:31:35 GMT
When the final pieces of the jigsaw eventually arrive I will let ya know my findings ..... with piccies n'orl.
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Post by Bigman80 on Feb 14, 2019 19:48:04 GMT
How about this one? 'Red Dawn cables allow your system to take that final leap from creating enjoyable music to experiencing a true performance that will make standard cabling seem intolerable'Intolerable! That cracks me up. Not unsubstantiated at all! Just sell the blighters and buy a few concert tickets, then you will experience a true performance  I have hated the Nordost cables I’ve had btw. |
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Post by macca on Feb 14, 2019 20:05:38 GMT
Well everybody does it.
'The Closest Approach To The Original Sound' was QUAD's tagline. Who's to say what the original sound is? And even if we could I just doubt that QUAD, much as I like some of their kit, would be the closest to it. Maybe back in 1955 it was.
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Post by Bigman80 on Feb 14, 2019 21:29:18 GMT
Ash from AVI must’ve made a few over the years. I remember when he had all his drones believing and repeating the claim that the only good speakers were active. They even called passive designs “legacy”. I remember more nonsense about a £150 Yammy integrated being as good as anything and another about headphone sound being something all speakers should strive for.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2019 21:35:39 GMT
Ash from AVI must’ve made a few over the years. I remember when he had all his drones believing and repeating the claim that the only good speakers were active. They even called passive designs “legacy”. I remember more nonsense about a £150 Yammy integrated being as good as anything and another about headphone sound being something all speakers should strive for. That is a good cope for people who have less money and can't afford higher tier amps. S. |
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Post by Bigman80 on Feb 14, 2019 21:43:08 GMT
I got the impression that he Loved having folk treat him like a guru and he went out of his way to be controversial as a way of testing his fanboys loyalty.
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Post by dsjr on Feb 14, 2019 22:13:05 GMT
Ash is like the retired country squire and has that indefinable 'Old English' kind of way with us paupers... A lot of what I learned from him in the 90's could be proven, so I don't give him too hard a time on that particular score.
It's Harbeth's owner who was going on about cheap Yamaha amps being all that's needed for Harbeth speakers (100W+ per channel). This brand is a luxury brand around the world and most owners wouldn't be seen dead with a cheap Jap integrated, no matter how good it really is (apparently, some of the Yamaha amps are very good). In fact, most owners abroad use vinyl as a main source and often valve amps or McIntosh beef-boxes as amps and praise the lush, silky-warm tones these combinations produce..
Macca - I always took the 'Closest approach to the original sound' to mean that their amps at the time, added little nor took much away from a straight-through signal. They used to do a lot of what I think are called null testing, somehow daisy-chaining amps together and taking the fundamental out to leave the distortion that's left. Certainly in the 33-303 days, the designs were tweaked around getting the known artefacts as far away from perception as possible, this in the days when amps didn't measure as well as they do now. The smugness in this company came when the son took over and the blinkers came down for a while. These blinkers started to evaporate when they nearly went under and had to bring the launch of the 63 speaker forward to boost business (I remember)... The costs and software tweaks of the awful two-way remote on the 77 amp system killed them, not especially sales I believe...
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Post by Bigman80 on Feb 15, 2019 7:33:05 GMT
How about “pure perfect sound forever” or claims for the LP12 being the best turntable in the world? Or maybe the claims of those flogging USB cables for daft money? Cable risers? Even cable directionality seems a tough one to swallow. I’ve been used cables the wrong way round many times due to laziness and not being bothered to check. Can’t say I’ve noticed any difference,
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Post by sq225917 on Feb 15, 2019 8:22:51 GMT
I don't mind grandiose subjective claims, every brand is entitled to promote their stuff. What I dislike though are bullshit technical claims, and I've reported a couple of brands to the ASA for that, and had complaints upheld.
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Post by macca on Feb 15, 2019 8:25:43 GMT
I used to think 'Pure, perfect sound forever' was bullshit too until I started using passive pre-amps.
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Post by macca on Feb 15, 2019 8:27:15 GMT
I don't mind grandiose subjective claims, every brand is entitled to promote their stuff. What I dislike though are bullshit technical claims, and I've reported a couple of brands to the ASA for that, and had complaints upheld. trouble is in this hobby reporting companies to the ASA could easily become a full-time job, like shovelling Sh#t against the tide.
Better and easier just to educate people not to be so bloody gullible.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 9:26:02 GMT
I got the impression that he Loved having folk treat him like a guru and he went out of his way to be controversial as a way of testing his fanboys loyalty. I can think of another forum owner / manufacturer exactly like that.........😉 |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 9:28:42 GMT
I don't mind grandiose subjective claims, every brand is entitled to promote their stuff. What I dislike though are bullshit technical claims, and I've reported a couple of brands to the ASA for that, and had complaints upheld. Really...........Well I never !! 🤔 |
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Post by dsjr on Feb 15, 2019 12:10:47 GMT
How about “pure perfect sound forever” or claims for the LP12 being the best turntable in the world? Or maybe the claims of those flogging USB cables for daft money? Cable risers? Even cable directionality seems a tough one to swallow. I’ve been used cables the wrong way round many times due to laziness and not being bothered to check. Can’t say I’ve noticed any difference, I think CD's made since 1983 were pretty well perfect to the source, but maybe the machines and certainly the stereo's many early 80's audio people used weren't quite up to it. My early bought CD's 'sound' better than ever nowadays and with quite cheap gear as well - you may well disagree 
Maybe my memories are fuzzy here, but the LP12 claiming 'better than anything else?' I DO remember the 'Simply Better!' ads, but I seem to recall that's all that was said, leaving the interpretation up to the reader...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2019 13:03:57 GMT
There's no such thing as the best hifi system in the world. Brutal cold fact!
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Post by dsjr on Feb 15, 2019 14:05:26 GMT
There's no such thing as the best hifi system in the world. Brutal cold fact! S. Depends what you want and how much you're prepared to pay for it. Most domestic gear *at any price* can't compete with the best studio systems imo and even these can be found wanting when asked to fill a large space (theatre or cinema). The best cinema systems would be strangled in the average living room (assuming you could fit them in).
Get your room right and even a cheap system can sing ime.
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Post by Bigman80 on Feb 15, 2019 19:48:01 GMT
I think what Shane’s means is that nobody would ever agree cos we all like different things. I do agree about getting the room right though. One area I do agree with NVA in this is using the room boundaries with semi omnis and omnis can be rewarding. Admittedly they won’t be everyone’s cuppa but they have a rightness about them for me. Which probably brings us back to Shane’s point lol.
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Post by macca on Feb 15, 2019 20:07:13 GMT
I think what Shane’s means is that nobody would ever agree cos we all like different things. I do agree about getting the room right though. One area I do agree with NVA in this is using the room boundaries with semi omnis and omnis can be rewarding. Admittedly they won’t be everyone’s cuppa but they have a rightness about them for me. Which probably brings us back to Shane’s point lol. If that's what he meant I agree. No-one likes a bland or hard or harsh sounding system but once you've got past that then taste starts to differ quite wildly. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 6:06:04 GMT
I guess we are all different when it comes to sound........
It's a battle of wits over anything with tone controls in our house.
I prefer a.....Treble +1 Bass -1 setting.
Every time I come home Shona has it set at Treble -2 Bass +2.
Sh#t she even does this in the car....!!!!
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Post by Bigman80 on Feb 16, 2019 7:31:00 GMT
That’s a classic example. Same kit, same music, same room yet different needs.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 13:39:06 GMT
Yup she quite obviously has defective hearing .........!!!
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