Those Hi-Fi Moments

Curiosuly you have the back end grunt that would drive SBLs quite happily (I used a 150 on mine for a while)

The SBL is a different leauge from the credo, which is supposed to be better than the intro 2.

However I am doing little more than planting lilttle ideas in your head for you to think long and hard about now and until you upgrade.

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I had a Dansette with a stereo cartidge and had to plug one channel through a seperate amp. It was my my first stereo and I loved it. I would spend hours listening in my bedroom to Yes, Be Bop Deluxe and Manfred Mann's Earthband...

Then a few years later I was given a Sony record deck and Sony amp and bought a pair of Celestian Ditton 22's (I think that was the model) I thought it was great! I continued listening to the same kind of music etc.

However, I was disturbed by the jittering sound of the stylus on records....... I spoke to a school friend who was "seriously" into hi fi - at the time and he was saying "buy a Rega Planar" so I listened to one at my local dealer and was amazed!

At that same demo, with my amp and speakers, the dealer suggested listening to some Ackroyd Conistons.......... I bought a pair about a month later. (less than half the price of my Ditton 22's)
The same dealer, when I bought the Conistons played me some Linn Kans on the end of my set-up....... Then he played a Nait in place of my amp..... I knew I had to have one!
However, in terms of wasted time, I had made the error of buying a JVC amp and about a year late a NAD amp.........Then
Within a few months, I had bought the Nait 2 and a pair of Kans..........

Then came the NAC72 and 140 power amp. Then the Hi-Cap and SBL's and then........... I started listening to and enjoying a wider range of music.


Thankfully, I didn't waste a load of money on side-way upgrades...... Apart from the JVC and Nad amps........

I will never forget the first time I heard a Naim system....... Or the first time I heard Quad electrostatics...... (I couldn't live with them though!)

Computers are supposed to work on 1's and 0's - in other words "Yes" or "No" - why does mine frequently say "Maybe"?......

Hooking up my new 250 from cold this evening. One word - presence and that was from cold.

There will be another moment tomorrow evening when I hook up my new 82...

Mike

Last night.

I'd been wondering if I'd "overstretched/overstressed" my ribbon tweeters through playing some loud Funk last weekend through the 135's. As I listened I thought "that treble definately sounds rolled off". But after a couple of minutes I put on some modern gospel and turned up wick. Not LOUD but Louder than usual. Dang! Half an hour with a stupid grin on my face with my system just sounding so *right*--you know, that feeling of "how could it ever be better than this!" (knowing full well that, ahem, a better cd player, a better preamp... well....) but definately one of those moments.

cd3.5, 72/hicap, 135's, centaurus minors. PHAT.

I put a lot of the magic down to the synergy of these components. They Work.

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1985 - Rega plana3. Wish I still had it.

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I'm still a happy owner of a 1983 Planar 3 - one of the very first to reach Canada with the RB300 tonearm. And yes, it is still in my system!