Neverending Story: Hifi Edition

Do they do a matching wallpaper?

My gripe was the hideous blanked off fireplace. Open it up and if there's a draft, put a special balloon in the vent to seal or partly seal it off... I suppose I'd have tried the speakers either side of the fireplace rather than off to one side by the window - glass vibrates at nasty frequencies and as the speakers are onmi's, the glass contribution may be magnified. may not be like that at all of course...

Actually, I HAVE Heard Kans sounding great either side of a fireplace, but nothing else has ever worked for me. Nothing between the speakers seems to be a golden rule for me. Same with firing down a room wherever possible.

Planets seem to get better, the further back you are from them, although they do seem remarkably unfussy. I wouldn’t expect that from an omni, but the experience beilies expectations on that one. Such is hifi: Confounded expectations seem to abound,

Been listening to my Revolver/Claymore/DIY Cube system. Man, I love the Revolver decks. They just make such great music. I have always thiought them to be more musical than the Regas of that generation. Controversial, I know, but they just fulfil me more, and always have. Claymore is a keeper too. I just can’t fault it and that wee second system really rocks! I’ve had many primary systems that have failed to make music as good as this little gem of a system.

The Claymore cost me £180, the Revolver £60 with a spare NOS cartridge, and the DIY cubes cost just over £100. A £340 vinyl system that will give masses of pleasure, hifi really is a great hobby.

It’s a hard one to predict because there hasn’t been one for sale anywhere in a year or more, The last one I recall seeing anywhere was my second one, which I think I sold for £380 in July 17. You will probably pay more for a later one with phono stage, but I’d reckon. £350-400 would be about average.

My pet hate is the chav floating fire with tv on the wall above. For some reason the chimney wall is often red or terracotta. Vile. Utterly vile.

I thought this thread was supposed to be about Hi-Fi. Not about bloody walls 'n' rugs!

S.

Indeed. So many things affect what we perceive that we hear besides the sound waves coming out of the speakers. 

Unless you are blind or close your eyes when listening everything you see will affect your perception of the sound to some degree. It's why people think things like the Mpingo Discs www.shunmook.com/text1.htm can change the sound. It's also why music seems to sound better when you turn the lights down, or why at open-air festivals bands like to go on stage just as the sun is starting to set.

Hard to get away with all red walls unless it's a big room. Otherwise it's really oppressive. Well, to me anyway. 

But I was talking about the practice of painting just one wall red. IMO it looks crap. It looks like trying too hard to me. 

Always found the Mission logo rather cool looking.

S.

It's a big room (25 feet long by 20 feet wide). It's naturally dark, and I guess the previous residents thought yellow walls would make it look more cheerful. We decided to embrace the darkness and painted the walls a dark-ish red. It feels quite cosy in the winter.

I don't get the whole painting one wall thing either. Some friends of ours live in a small terraced house. Their sitting room can only be about ten feet wide, yet they've got one wall painted in sort of gold colour, with the other three walls painted red. A room that small needs white or off-white.

What you need to do to get it to warm up quicker is borrow your wife's hairdryer  

I would fancy a second Campion again, but that’s probably the only likely change, as long as it all keeps working. I think if I’d found omnis earlier I’d have been far less likely to chop and change. They lead you to listen to the music rather than the hifi.

Could not agree more