Maybe they've been kidding me along all this time

It's a folk night not an Iron Maiden gig!

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We also have the St Michaels Village folk night coming up where they close the road off for the evening and all four pubs feature different bands as well as open air performances all along the street. A great evening but yet more thirsty listening!

He has this knack of making you feel jealous doesn't he..? Try closing a street around here and you'll get some peak capped, Brown Shirt wannabe giving you an earful. Mind the main street near us is the A1...

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:

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Surely they've had them in Sweden for years!

Dunno. Apparently he's only been doing his bespoke things over the years and it's only recently that the production of the QM10 has been set up. James has had Purchase enquiries from people in Sweden, so I guess not.

From what I know there´s no dealer in Sweden yet selling the Guru´s.

The designer is Ingvar Öhman and from what I understand (from Swedish audio foras) not in charge of the marketing.

Ingvar Öhman otoh has been designing loudspeakers for more than 30 years and is by many audiophiles in Sweden, a very high regarded loudspaker.

Here his designs is called Ino Audio Loudspeakers.

No Guru´s here, just Ino´s.

But he´s regarded as a guru by many.

This thread has made me very interested in his designs.

Would never have dreamed of that his designs would be such a match with Naim.

I´ve only heard the Pip´s and not with Naim.

Makes me wonder how a pair of pr 18 or Pi60 would match. Intriguing.

The thing is you can´t buy his loudspeakers in shops. From what I know from a friend, You phone him and meet him, the dem is at his dem room where he also enquieres on how you a are going to match the set up.

The INO´s can then either be bought as diy or assembled.
Finishes are many and varied.

Oh! And no spikes here. But that´s another topic

His designs has a strong following, here is a thread with pictures in a Swedish audio fora, albiet in swedish. I will if needed translate.

http://www.faktiskt.se/modules.php?name=Forums&file=vie...torder=asc&list=full

Blimey, make mine look positively ordinary, although I like the black and white Pi60's. The QM60's will be available soon, assume they're a production development of those.

and another

I do like the look of them.
How heavy is the stand?
Munch

Dunno, not weighed them! Pretty solid though. I went with the Kudos stands as they're very stable which I needed with a busy little 1 year old about.

You can use any stand you like, Guru supplied a top plate to fit under the speaker and on top of your choice of stand, as I have here with the Kudos. They're designed to sit on anything you want apparently, including bookshelves and I believe don't need pricey/solid stands. They have their own, slightly squishy, feet at each corner to sit on, the plate has little recesses for these.

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Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
Blimey, make mine look positively ordinary, although I like the black and white Pi60's. The QM60's will be available soon, assume they're a production development of those.

I might be wrong here, but I think your Guru´s is developed from a studio monitor range he also designs and constructs.
I can´t find any of pictures of the QM 60´s.
The Pi 60´s though if bought assembled, ranges from 30000-42000 sek depending on finish wich would be aprox. 2000-2800 GBP.

A good friend of mine is going to purchase the Pip´s to partner with his Naims.
He told me, when he had the dem, he first thoght when he entered the room that Öhman was using pi 60´s but it was the Pip´s.
Those small bookshelf speakers reaches well down to 30 Hz +/- 3 db. The Pip´s were excellent, he thought.