I fed them a different food tonight. I dug out some vinyl. Some Bowie, some Nirvana, some Stones. I still think I may be able to make a front back adjustment but the sound stage was right there all the instruments nicely focussed and sounding more like they are in the room (Nirvana 'In Utero' is eit...

Dear Selby, I'm beginning to think that you actually enjoy shopping more than listening to music. You have a Mac, I presume it's fairly recent, there's plenty of audiophile praise for them, so why not get that playing through a decent amp (NVA of course) and speakers (from the looks of this forum, a...

*ALL* speaker need this intervention, it is just this one shows up the potential of change far more, and in the end should be far more satisfying because of it. It is also training your ears :mrgreen: :geek: Hmm. I intend to test the 'ear training' bit by reverting to the ES22s at some point soon. ...

Not had much time last weekend. I'm still playing with the 'focus' bit. I guess I'm too used to NVA products doing this without any user intervention.

I used to do kits in the 90's, they are more problem than they are worth. The number of people who think they can solder but can't is just too many. My first 'real' hi-fi amp (actually a receiver) was a Heathkit. I nearly went blind soldering it and then it wouldn't work. I had one dry joint and a ...

Sovereign wrote:So I guess I need to decide to bi amp or not. It probable make much difference with my ES22's as there is no crossover, but I wont be keeping them for ever.

A80s LS6 ES22 sounded better to me than A80s plus A70s plus LS5 into ES22s. From which I conclude that ES22s a quite revealing.

Owning A80s and having heard TSS, I agree.

Nick Harper 'Instrumental'. Nick's first album and some fine guitar work.

Lazmo wrote:Melody Gardot - Some Lessons (bedroom sessions) (2005) very nice late night listening

Mmm. It's the way she seems to be breathing into your ear when she's singing. As Jack Nicholson's Joker said to Michael Keaton's Batman, "Sure puts steam in a man's strides."

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