Anyone agree with the What Hi-Fi best speakers list? :D

[Philberish]

Done!

May I share this topical link to your page -

Audio Icons

A few years ago, while strolling along a London street, I passed a print gallery. In the window of the gallery was a limited edition print that illustrated a group of 1970s transistor radios. I lov…

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SBLs and Isobariks? You'd have one or two secret friends here I reckon

I like the amp image, especially as I was looking at a now sold Armstrong 700 preamp 'on the bay,' which led to designer Jim Lesurf's site and articles on this sadly short-lived pre and power amp (the company all but folded just as production was starting I believe) and then to the 600 series which I knew and sold (even tried to own, but the thing 'motorboated' from new), the 621 amp pictured on linked page...

Share away. And apologies all that I've not written a blog post for a while. Too busy.

Armstrong 621 - I owned one for a long time in my youth and it was completely reliable!!! Lovely product, designed by a guy called Ted Rule I seem to remember. Also, the 600 Series was a very early example of a British hi-fi company employing an external design consultancy. Really only Quad had done that before on the 33/303 and original Electrostatic ("styled" by one of the Heal family, as in the up-market furniture retailer, I was told by Allen Boothroyd).

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[Matt S]

Share away. And apologies all that I've not written a blog post for a while. Too busy.

Armstrong 621 - I owned one for a long time in my youth and it was completely reliable!!! Lovely product, designed by a guy called Ted Rule I seem to remember. Also, the 600 Series was a very early example of a British hi-fi company employing an external design consultancy. Really only Quad had done that before on the 33/303 and original Electrostatic ("styled" by one of the Heal family, as in the up-market furniture retailer, I was told by Allen Boothroyd).

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Just checked out your website and really enjoyed reading through it. Will take a look at your soundcloud page also when I have some free time.

I was actually down in Brighton last weekend. Little break on the waterfront there. The North Laine has a real buzz about it, doesn't it.

Given the tourists, where do the locals actually hang out? Must be some cool music orientated bars/pubs there?

Brighton is kind of - Camden-on-Sea... well, at least thats how I saw it.

Sorry, off topic!!!

 

[Philberish]

Just checked out your website and really enjoyed reading through it. Will take a look at your soundcloud page also when I have some free time.

I was actually down in Brighton last weekend. Little break on the waterfront there. The North Laine has a real buzz about it, doesn't it.

Given the tourists, where do the locals actually hang out? Must be some cool music orientated bars/pubs there?

Brighton is kind of - Camden-on-Sea... well, at least thats how I saw it.

Sorry, off topic!!!

Yes, Brighton is very well blessed with music venues. I'd recommend The Brunswick (https://www.brunswickpub.co.uk/), Alphabet (https://www.alphabetbrighton.com/), The Rose HIll (https://therosehill.co.uk/), The Prince Albert (https://princealbertbrighton.co.uk/), the Hope & Ruin (https://www.hope.pub/events/) and the Attenborough Centre at Sussex Uni (https://attenboroughcentre.com/). There's many, many more though. I'm actually playing in "my" new wave band (newwavebreakers.com) at the Brunswick on July 31st.

 

[DanielT]

....KEF Coda 7.....I think @DanielT has a pair still?

Speaking of which....Now I've plugged them in. They're nice I must say:

Post photo of your desktop setup

How do you find these in this setup compared to a pair of studio monitors? And why do you position them like that given that they are omnidirectional? Just curious. Also curious about Apple Homepods... I don't think I have a current use case, but it seems a lot of smart engineering went into...

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[Westsounds]

Speaking of which....Now I've plugged them in. They're nice I must say:
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Post photo of your desktop setup

How do you find these in this setup compared to a pair of studio monitors? And why do you position them like that given that they are omnidirectional? Just curious. Also curious about Apple Homepods... I don't think I have a current use case, but it seems a lot of smart engineering went into...

www.audiosciencereview.com

Great little speakers coda 7s, as we said way more than the sum of their parts. Their cool styling as aged well also.

 

[DSJR]

Great little speakers coda 7s, as we said way more than the sum of their parts. Their cool styling as aged well also.

It was one of those inexpensive-speaker projects where the whole 'sounded' better than the sum of the (cheap) parts. I'm not suggesting in the slightest that they'd be Klippel-Kings, but I bet they wouldn't totally disgrace themselves as so many lower cost UK designed speakers did - see various 'Choice tests before they abandoned response plots - usually hobbled to get good WTF reviews I always suspected.

 

[Westsounds]

It was one of those inexpensive-speaker projects where the whole 'sounded' better than the sum of the (cheap) parts. I'm not suggesting in the slightest that they'd be Klippel-Kings, but I bet they wouldn't totally disgrace themselves as so many lower cost UK designed speakers did - see various 'Choice tests before they abandoned response plots - usually hobbled to get good WTF reviews I always suspected.

They do sound great and are highly enjoyable to discover music, and that is what a great speaker should do.