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The classic... Mine is a dusty, 1985 original pressing. Bought it at age 16.

The Notting Hillbillies, Missing... Presumed having a good time.

I you can believe the tabloids, those beautiful eyes have seduced more than 3000 lovers... 😁😁😁😁 This article about his private life actually uses your album's cover art: https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/475099/I-ve-never-kept-count-of-the-women-I-ve-slept-with-says-singer-Julio-Iglesias

They do have something in common: EL84 tubes. On the TubeCube 7, I had the tubes upgraded to Sovtek EL84M tubes. I still think the TubeCube is a fine little tube, a great entry into the world of tubes. I know now of course that teh CS300 is in a whole other league as for design, weight, looks and sound quality.

Julio Iglesias, Emociones. This album, one of my mum's, is one I grew up on. Its mixing and mastering always sounded 'over the top', but on my newly acquired Leben CS300 it sounds well ballanced. It does push the cheap mm needle I use over its limit, though.

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Okay, so I calmed down a little bit, after some understated, non-fatiguing tunes on my new Leben CS300. 😉 Gear used: The CS300 with Genalex Gold Lion 4x EL84 / 2x12AX7 'custom tube', the Advance Acoustic WTX Microstreamer (connected to a switch, because the cinch/rca distance is not standard), Onkyo Turntable (nothing special) and made in China phono stage, Speakers: Klipsch RP160M. Here are my first impressions. The physical aspect: all of it oozes quality in an understated way, the feel of the nobs is excellent. Turning the volume feels just right. There is a Bass Boost nob too, and this one produces noise when I turn it. I think the pot inside is dirty because the previous owner never used it. During the first hour, for a short second the sound in the right channel was gone and then instantly returned. This happenend only once. I think the dirty Bass Boost nob is the culprit, or it could be a tube, or power related? When the CS300 is turned off, I plan to turn the nob 50 times or so, hope that takes care of it. The top grid gets really hot, I could bake an egg on it, or keep my cup of tea hot on it. Not sure if this is a Class A amplifier. I'll have to look that up. The 'look' is very subjective of course. I personally like the understated, retro look: the gold annodized frontpanel, the green borders, the wooden side panels. Edit: The EL84s run in class-A/B in a straightforward autobias circuit. The sound quality: Compared with my little Denon RCD-41M, the Leben excells on every level: the left/right seperation, the highs are clean, never sharp or grainy, the lows go really deep (Unfinished Sympathy, Massive Attack and Flight of the Cosmic Pig, Bela Fleck), but they are never chest pounding or boomy. Acoustic music really shines and I can hear details I had never heard before (breathing through some exotic wind instrument on Anouar Brahem's The Astounding Eyes of Rita). As for vinyl records, I decided to turn the Boost Bass nob to +5dB (for minus 100Hz), because after all, the RP160Ms are small bookshelfspeakers and I can't hook up a subwoofer. U2's Songs of Innocence sounds very fluid and non-fatiguing. I listened to Ella Fitzgerald's The Lost Berlin Tapes on vinyl. Ella is right in the middle, bass, piano and drum in the left and the right channel. Her voice is rather thin, but perhaps my cheap phono stage is to blame here. And then there is the classical music: as I'm writing this, I'm listening to Bernstein directing Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela. In this piece, the strings and the oboe have a marvelous dialogue. I'm kind of tripping... I'm really curious now what this amp will do with my 1972 Heresies. I'll report back on this later on. Conclusion: This has been a fabulous Sunday. When I woke up this morning, I had no idea I would own a Leben CS300 by 7pm. When I saw this add online in the morning, I immediately bid the asking price (though bidding started lower). My bid was accepted. Then I got into contact with the seller and he said, why don't you come over this afternoon, that way you avoid the busy traffic during the weekdays. You can listen to it, we can have a chat, you make up your mind. So in the afternoon, I drove to Antwerp and by 7pm I was back home with my precious CS300. I must say this was no case of impulse buying. For about three years, this has been my favourite amp, the one that one day, I wanted to own. I've read many reviews of it, and also on the Klipsch forum, I've read many reports of positive experiences with this amp. As for now, I can only confirm these. I love it! Link: https://lebenhifi.com/products/cs300.html

I'm perplexed. Today I got a Leben CS300. Mint condition. New Genalex Gold Lion tubes. Listening to them on my RP160Ms. Speachless... Later more... Tomorrow with my Heresies.

My personal preference is to keep a vintage speaker in its original state. I have recapped my 1972 Heresies and oiled the veneer, and then treated them with beewax and that was it. I keep the old capacitors nearby the speakers, you never know. If it ain't broken, don't fix it... The speakers have their own personality, still they sound different depending on the amp and source I use. My Heresies sound great with my equally vintage Harman Kardon 430, and I like them with my cheap TubeCube 7 amp too. I don't like their sound with a modern Marantz PM5005 (not a high end amp, I know). This thread makes me think of the story of grandpa's hatchet: grandpa had this great axe that had been in the family for generations but sometime after the war, someone broke the hatchet's handle, and it was replaced. Then, 30 years later, there was a crack in the head and it was replaced as well. Yet, in the family, it's still called grandpa's hatchet... Anyhow, I just checked the specs of the La Scala, and I'm a bit surprised that they won't go any lower than 51Hz (+/-4db). Is this due to the horn design, or is the woofer limited? If they would go as low as 32 Hz, they would be perfect... Just my two cents...

After my dad died, we had to empty our paternal home and I took the Onkyo stereo system to my place, but left the tape deck behind... I regret this a lot now, but at the time, I didn't care much about it; although cassette tapes played an important role in my life when I was teenager, I quickly moved on to vinyl records and CDs. I always kind of considered cassettes of inferior quality. These were 'copies' anyhow, and copies of copies were even worse... Yet, now I regret I didn't take the tape deck home as well... I still have my cassettes in a box on the attic, though.

Take a look at this finish. It was originally black... Sanding and staining can bring it to this. Looks amazing. If you buy something like this new, you'll pay way more.

To me, this is a no brainer. Buy it. Amazing looks, and front firing. Excellent companion for Heresies too. The staging will be amazing. You cannot buy a new sub for that price.

I got to know Bowie's music in the early 1980s when my sister got a compiled cassette of fav songs from her boyfriend. On the b-side was Dire Straits' Love over Gold. I became a huge fan instantly of both. I listened to this tape all the time, until it was eaten by the tape deck. Must have been a sad day, because music can be so important for a teenager. Other tapes I got from friends, illegal copies in fact, which defined my musical taste, were Tokio Tapes of The Scorpions, Tubular Bells of Mike Oldfield and Pink Floyd's The Wall. After that, I started I started my musical journey on my own and buying vinyl albums: Deep Purple, Prince, Van Morrison, U2. This was all during the 1980s.

This 20 euro antistatic carbon brush is pretty efficient too. Easy to set up. Counterweight, arm length, weight and height are adjustable. Comes with a ground cable too. Van the Man is sceptical, though...

Van Morrison, Poetic Champions Compose, 1988

My aircleaner has arrived. Inside it has two large hepa filters, no water recipient. I'm using setting high, also low and sleep are available. The fan's noise is present, but not distracting. I can feel the air current leaving the machine. Hepa filters must be cleaned every month, and replaced every six months. Hope this will get rid of all the dust. Paid 39 euro, Amazon special offer. (normal price is 49). First impressions are positive. Will post a follow up report after two weeks of use.

No pun intended, Talk Talk, It's My Life

Still the OM10. Still on the fence, can't choose between the OM20 and 2M Blue. Sales start tomorrow. Hope to find a bargain somewhere...

Shirley Bassey, What now my love

Must say a year ago I had a similar idea. Buy a toy guitar, remove the strings and mount a full range speaker in it. Or I could order 1000 guitar bodies in China, mount 5 inch coaxial speakers in them, and sell them for a 'audiophile speakers' to yuppy lawyers and docters.

Luthiery - definition of Luthiery by The Free Dictionary www.thefreedictionary.com › Luthi... Vertaal deze pagina lu·thi·er. (lo͞o′tē-ər). n. One that makes or repairs stringed instruments, such as violins. [French, from luth, lute, from Old French lut; see lute1.].

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