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  1. Could just be so. A year and a half ago I bought new XP3060. It was just to be discontinued.
  2. Well, most of the gear I bought was on discount, not B-stock. With a few exceptions that I payed full price 🙂 For example, my Beyers DT990Pro (250 ohm) were regular item on a local retailer shelf. Since it was sitting there for a long time, the shop decided to lower the price. I usually seek such opportunities locally, where I ca try the item I am interested in. I don't have the nerve for shipping back and all the fuss.
  3. They certainly have that characteristics, at least what I have heard of them. I would not put the word"tubey", but then again, I have not hearf them with highgly sensitive speakers. Soudstage and detail they have.
  4. Keep working on it. It is all good as long as there is fun in it. 🙂 I had an opportunity to listen the sound out of similarly designed speakers at audio show. Except the horn was Oris type and there were four open baffle bass drivers (two above the horn and two below the horn). The sound coming from horn itself was beautiful. Unfortunately the bass was not well integrated with the horn and there were serious deficiencies.
  5. Please explain how not to feed NC400 with DC from a pre-amp. What to watch for, where and how to find parameters to avoid the worse?
  6. Hi Dave A, is there any chance you could test the Super MWMs with the B&C DCX464 and ME464 in near future? That would be really helpful for those that can not get their hands on K-402s.
  7. I was present at the Danley speakers/system presentation which wad held at the rock club. Closed hall, round or slightly elipsoid shape, maybe 30-40 meters diameter. I mention this because an SPL meter was hooked up at the listening position. 85-95 dB was acceptable for listening. When SPL meter reached 103 dB (may be a bit more but less than 110) briefly, the wooden pannels on the walls started to rattle and we could only endure it for a short period of time.
  8. So sad, one guitar went away 😢
  9. Yes, //chord.co.uk. The Sound Organisation from Texas is the official dealer in the USA. When I needed to buy an interconnect and needed it fast, went to the nearest hi-fi shop and got me a C-line, their basic cable. It was the cheapest cable I could get with reputable name on the package. It is just fine as I am concerned.
  10. Basic Chord. As interconnect, it os as good as it gets. In Europe, not much more can be gained.
  11. Europe. I am in contact with Klipsch pro poeple and still waiting from them when a pair would be available. K402s should come with the same driver as you got.
  12. parlophone1

    Old eyes

    Not a catastrophic but you should get the glasses to see well. I am having much lower than that, and I usually drive without glasses just fine. Seeing numbers at the license plate on a car in front of me on autobahn is a problem, but who cares. But when I want to see accurate the objects in the distance then I wear my glasses. For example, viewfinders in my cameras are well adjusted for my right eye, which is also worse than my left eye. However, you should wear glasses for one other reason and that is you could loose your sight much more rapidly then without them. At lest that is how my optometrist explained to me.
  13. This one loves water 🙂
  14. Looking very nice. What was the workflow regarding the preparation for painting and the painting?
  15. Fishing just does not interest him in any way. Smartphone is the source of many interesting themes and socializing with other mates. If he had friends there on the lake involved in various activities of mutual interest, may be it would be a different picture. As is, the smartphone is just more fun then staring into water and waiting for a fish.
  16. Majority of home market probably not. But there are always exceptions 🙂, which of course do not make money for the speaker companies. As for me, I have decided to put a pair of SMWMs with K402 horns in my smallish living room, even my darling agreed to that. Bought the tools, Xilica is waiting in the closet for year and a half. Unfortunately it has been two years since I have been trying to get my hands on K402s through official dealership and otherwise, with no success.
  17. And that in Tannoys are pretty usable 🙂 I like strait forward solutions, and that one is.
  18. Producer from Norway. Pretty popular in Europe. They have been around for some time. They have a reputation for a clean accurate sound with plenty of power for most home applications. I never had a chance to listen a system with all Hegel components. But for a short listening session I used one integrated, actually just a pre-section of Hegel integrated when buying a Kenwwod combo Pre+amp. Wanted to make sure that Kenwood preamp is in a good condition. Hegel produced just a bit cleaner sound with a bit more instrument separation, but that could be expected as Kenwood is 35 years old. 🙂
  19. I don't know about that. But if the Yamaha rep said that is all good, I do not see a reason to worry. What type of amplifier is that? I also have Onkyo stereo receiver, which is probably AB class. It gets pretty warm even in normal room temperatures. Therefore I turn it off after listening music. It has Pure Direct Mode like the one you have described above and it operates the same way.
  20. My Kenwood C1 is also almost cold most of the year. But now, as temperatures are over 30C, it gets noticeably warmer. I can still hold my palm over the amp and it does not go past that even after a few hours of playing.
  21. All up to 35C is fine with me, I like it warm 🙂 But humidity is what I don't like. And all kinds of funny anomalies like hails, floods, earthquakes, etc. We had all of that this and last year, and severe ones. So among all these, the heat is the thing we don't mind so much.
  22. 90-95F. A few days ago we had hail the size of eggs with a strong side-wind. Ruined roofs, facades, cars...
  23. Never too careful with guns. Unfortunately, it happens to the best of us. Just a little inattention and here you go.
  24. Time to have a lunch party with all the neighbors 🙂
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