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by Fretless
Mon Mar 11, 2019 2:50 pm
Forum: NVA Discussions
Topic: May the Cube2 be with you ..... too !
Replies: 13
Views: 6734
Netherlands

Re: May the Cube2 be with you ..... too !

I have been informed by reliable sources within NVA Worldwide Customer Services that my old-model Cube3's sound similar to current Cubettes. :grin:
by Fretless
Mon Mar 11, 2019 10:56 am
Forum: NVA Discussions
Topic: May the Cube2 be with you ..... too !
Replies: 13
Views: 6734
Netherlands

Re: May the Cube2 be with you ..... too !

My own history with NVA started in the mid-80's when I px'd a Nytech CA252 (lovely amp - now much sought-after) for the relatively unknown Nene Valley Audio P50/A40 (stereo) combination. Those were glorious times to be a hifi-nut with a wide range of small manufacturers offering great audio products...
by Fretless
Sun Mar 10, 2019 2:49 pm
Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
Topic: IF there's another Brexit referendum...
Replies: 63
Views: 21350
Netherlands

Re: IF there's another Brexit referendum...

Could be the best outcome the way things are looking.

(I really should try to stay out of all Brexit discussions, my blood immediately starts to boil)
by Fretless
Sun Mar 10, 2019 2:17 pm
Forum: Admin-Intro-Chitchat
Topic: IF there's another Brexit referendum...
Replies: 63
Views: 21350
Netherlands

Re: IF there's another Brexit referendum...

The forthcoming months are already planned. No-deal Brexit followed immediately by Boris Johnson becoming PM and the UK proving that it is able to stand easily on its own in direct competition with the EU, USA, China and so on. And not becoming a bankrupt and isolated third-world land as some would ...
by Fretless
Sat Mar 09, 2019 9:20 am
Forum: NVA Discussions
Topic: May the Cube2 be with you ..... too !
Replies: 13
Views: 6734
Netherlands

May the Cube2 be with you ..... too !

Some NVA history turned up on my doorstep yesterday in the shape of a pair of Cube2 speakers. :dance: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bfgAAOSwrmRcG91K/s-l1600.jpg Once upon a time there was a small-scale builder of high-quality audio components called Nene Valley Audio. Having stopped operations for ...
by Fretless
Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:22 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Your last listen
Replies: 8443
Views: 2311042
Netherlands

Re: Your last listen

3 'To the Power of Three' (1988) https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41Zclc9syvL._SY400_.jpg Emerson and Palmer team up with young neo-progger Robert Berry, sign to Geffen and go all-out for Asia-like 80's arena rock. This has it's moments but it is mostly stuck in a no-man's-land betw...
by Fretless
Tue Mar 05, 2019 11:24 am
Forum: NVA Discussions
Topic: Current NVA bargains at ebay and here
Replies: 15
Views: 7335
Netherlands

Re: Current NVA bargains at ebay and here

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143157344242

Pair of Cubettes up for grabs - current bid is 40 GBP
by Fretless
Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:43 am
Forum: Forum Help
Topic: Forum Errors
Replies: 313
Views: 134513
Netherlands

Re: Forum Errors

Strange - sometimes very quick and sometimes unpleasantly slow.
by Fretless
Tue Mar 05, 2019 10:26 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Your last listen
Replies: 8443
Views: 2311042
Netherlands

Re: Your last listen

I think they got a worse press than any other band when punk/new wave came along and their sense of humour was over looked. I recall John Peel describing them on the lines of a waste of electricity. I read that somewhere in a set of sleeve notes. John Peel was a big fan of The Nice and attended the...
by Fretless
Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:44 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Your last listen
Replies: 8443
Views: 2311042
Netherlands

Re: Your last listen

'Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Live at Nassau Coliseum '78' https://s.s-bol.com/imgbase0/imagebase3/large/FC/3/7/4/5/1000004012055473.jpg Whilst sorting through the ELP archives in 2010 - looking for bonus tracks for the latest reissue series - a set of multitrack tapes were found that turned out to...