Hi Pete, welcome. I'm a relative newbie here (since April) and limbering up for my first NVA purchase. A friend loaned me an AP20 for a few months and I love it. Since yesterday I've had the A40 monoblocks, P50sa passive-pre, and LS6 cables on loan from the Doc. And it's utterly brilliant, a noticea...

Another note on things headphone-wise: It looks as if Audioquest have ceased production of their NightHawk series headphones and prices of remaining stock have been drastically reduced. http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/audioquest-nighthawk.jpg The sound of theses phones is sum...

Still 3rd place to play for

Will ask to loan A40s on the correct thread, if available - was going to buy once we won (hahaha) but would be good to see how they compare to the AP20 I still have on loan from my friend. Thanks for the kind gesture in lieu of the loss.

They had some hooked up at Audio Gold in north London a couple of months ago. Might still be there if anyone wanted to audition them. I can't really comment on them since they make my 6:1s look/sound puny. But sounded great, running turntable through such-and-such amp.

Picked up a complete original LP set of Beethoven piano sonatas played by Wilhelm Kempf for 50p at a music library sale 15 years ago. Not majorly valuable - apart from the music therein - but they still go for 30 quid new on CD. Better though, in the same sale I found an autobiography of Dame Myra H...

Stick them on an image sharing site or somewhere else in the cloud - both can be found for free.

https://www.lifewire.com/free-image-hos ... es-3486329

CPEB ain't too bad either.

They really are one of the few high profile classical labels still churning out high quality recordings of emerging and current artists who are not necessarily the pop-star-Lang-Lang-Classic-FM-Raymond-Gubbay-presents-Albert-Hall-Spectacular types. Totally understand investment in the catalogue. But...

http://www.harmoniamundi.com/__media/document/997/907428_G.jpg Lovely, intimate recording; nothing like Beecham's 'skeletons copulating on a tin roof' here. Unless you hate harpsichords, then it's exactly that. Brilliant performance, though, and exceptionally recorded. Few choice quotes from the sl...

In a small London flat I don't have the luxury of choice, but some theory here, recommended by a speaker designer in Denmark: http://www.cardas.com/room_setup_main.php