The Great Music and Hi-Fi thread.

They are old Monitor Audio Bronze BX6's - around 8 years old I believe.
Not a bad speaker by any means but they followed the fashion at the time of putting many drivers into the cabinet, which ends up muddying the sound-stage as you've got various competing sources in close proximity producing the same sound and they fight against each other.

Beautifully made though, as are all MA speakers.
 
My loudspeakers - Celestion 66 Studio Monitors - now over 40 years old and still not too bad. Piano is a John Broadwood & Sons cottage grand from c1870. And just a glance of my A2 through the window.
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With the potholes around today, that valve (or tube if you must!) would last around 1 minute before being rattled to death.

Especially in an A2 with it's 'characteristic' crashy ride!!
 
With the potholes around today, that valve (or tube if you must!) would last around 1 minute before being rattled to death.

Especially in an A2 with it's 'characteristic' crashy ride!!
How do you manage to keep so cheerful skippy ..such positive energy ...my old mate ?
It reminds me of an old war film I watched recently where a certain tank driver answered (there you go again with the negative waves man )
A browny point for the name of that film ?...and actor?
 
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The film of course was Kelly's Heroes and the actor was the great Donald Sutherland.

I have loads of positivity thanks. But tell me it aint so - British roads are terrible and getting worse because local authorities say they have no cash to fix them. But yet there's loads of money to build new roads or install managed motorway schemes which are not needed. And every single councillor, MP and beaurocrat within the system gets an above inflation pay increase every year.

Cue your further labelling of me as a pessimist. At least I'm seldom disappointed in things!
 
Most people here associate me with A2s, but outside my work on our little aluminium friends, I design and build recording studio audio systems. Here's an example of a studio I built in 2016...

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For those who have some familiarity with such systems, this is a studio based around an SSL AWS948 Delta feeding UA Apollo interfaces. Outboard includes classic stuff like Neve, Avalon and UA mic amps, 1176 compressors, a Fairchild, a selection of Chandler dynamics, AMS FX and lots, lots more. Monitoring is done through Neumann near-fields and a pair of Genelecs like those used by Skipton in his broadcast audio system.

I wired up this studio from scratch. There's not a single purchased cable in the entire analogue system. To make it all work, I did approximately 25,000 solder joints (small wonder I now find myself battling musculoskeletal issues!).
The 12 albums nominated for the 2020 Mercury Prize were announced within the last week or so. The list can be seen here... https://www.mercuryprize.com/news/the-2020-hyundai-mercury-prize-albums-of-the-year
'Spook the Herd' by Lanterns on the Lake was recorded in the studio I mention here.

Cheers,

Tom
 
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