fancy pants hi-fi

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    bottleneck talks a load of rubbish

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    Just saw these speakers whilst mucking about on the net... and wanted an excuse to post the photo... all I can say is WOW

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    Got any more pictures of rarely seen yet very attractive hifi?... go on, we havent had any hifi porn on ZG yet!

    Lets christen this place !
    Chris:MILD:
     
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    Robbo

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    Chris,

    are those the usher audio ones?

    Robbo
     
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    bottleneck talks a load of rubbish

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    yeah, arent they fab?

    they out fab sonus fab-er for wood effect I reckon.

    (ducks for cover)

    :D
     
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    cookiemonster

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    I don't mind doing this again. hehehe...i'll represent the good ol' stuff, it's 'rarely seen yet very attractive hifi', and it serves up the goodies too. Probably not what you had in mind, but i don't care :p

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    technobear Ursine Audiophile

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    When I was a teenager, I used to walk past a hifi shop in Kingston-upon-Thames where they used to keep the lights down low so that you could appreciate the blue glow of all their Sansui gear as you walked by. Fab :D

    ps. That is one ugly cassette deck.
     
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    wadia-miester Mighty Rearranger

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    These are a thing of beauty and craftmanship, oh and how do they sound, well just as good as they look :)


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    Whoo those Curvaceous sides and drivers :groupies:

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    kermit still dreaming.......

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    the usher audio speakers are things of beauty .
    i,ve read comments before on them being sonus faber clones , but i can,t really see it myself .
    ;)
     
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    lAmBoY Lothario and Libertine

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    Hows about these usher beauties....

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    The bastardised spawn of a SF Cremona and Avalon Opus if ever there could be such a thing!!!

    I heard some at a show last year....very very nice.

    I bet you can pick them up for cheap cheap in china.

    Take a gander here....usher audio

    You can get them in the UK here...www.ultimate-sonics.com/Usher%20Audio.htm

    Nice.
     
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    auric FOSS

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    hi-fi porn

    My idea of hi-fi porn is of the 12inch black vinyl playing verity that comes in the bi-monthly edition of hifi pluss.

    The latest edition Issue 24 July-August 2003 is entitled “Vinyl Survival†and covers such instruments of aural delight as VPI TNT HRX , Brinkmann Legrange , Bluenote Bellavista and others. I am tempted to buy all these decks on the pictures in this mag alone, they are works of art so who cares what they sound like!

    A real hi-end hi-fi fetish if ever I heard one.

    Auric:)
     
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    lAmBoY Lothario and Libertine

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    'Tis a shame it has Peter Gabriel on the cover:confused:

    - Not a very good issue this month IMO.
     
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    domfjbrown live & breathe psy-trance

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    Shame on you Chris - the CT-F900 is one of the bulkiest, coolest decks known to man, and I want one :)

    Mind you, a Nak RX series deck that turns the tape round at end of side would be cool!

    Here's some random speakers...
    My Epos ES14s (and the worst telly known to man!):
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    Blue Room Minipods (I *will* own these one day!):
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    Wharfedale E70 (OTT butchness from hell - love it!):
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    There's got to be more out there...
     
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    domfjbrown live & breathe psy-trance

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    Nakamichi Dragon:
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    Audio Innovations Alto:
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    Michell Gyrodeck:
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    Michell Hydraulic Reference
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    Nottingham Analogue Anna Log:
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    FINALLY - the world's most odd "hifi" product (I still want one!) - the Amstrad Studio 100 (sorry about the piccie - only one I could find and at least the thing's in it's natural habitat:
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    lAmBoY Lothario and Libertine

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    Apart from the Epos's your speaker choices look positivly camp. Minipods in a 'I watch freinds and sex in the city' sort of way and those Yammys...."Lets doo the time waarp agaaiin. Just a step to the right etc etc"

    Whatever floats your boats, but if your after something a tad less effeminate try these....

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    technobear Ursine Audiophile

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    Yammys? I see no Yammys. I see a pair of woefully dire Wharfedales. I actually has the misfortune to hear some of those in a shop once. Absolutely aweful - but very very loud!

    Guess you were thinking of these...

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    Now those are Yammys. I used to lust after these in my youth. They sound rather good.

    Chris
     
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    lAmBoY Lothario and Libertine

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    You gots me there TBear. I guess my brain was off doing its own thing again and my typing fingers were switched to remote operation.:)

    The Yams (NS100?) used a berylium tweeter IIRC - as does those hulking JMLabs utopiaBEs. HiFiWorld love em to bits.

    Wharfdales. Pants IMHO.
     
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    technobear Ursine Audiophile

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    Hmmm, the picture is no longer working. F*cking geocities, grrr, mutter!

    The Yamaha NS1000 not only had a berylium dome tweeter, it also had a berylium dome midrange. So long as you didn't push it to silly levels, it sounded very good. I quite liked the look too but you could always leave the grilles on.

    Let's try this one...

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    Or this one...

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    Chris
     
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    domfjbrown live & breathe psy-trance

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    Yeah - I stuck the Wharfs in there for their total mingingness - but what's wrong with Minipods? Sure they're a bit girlie girl in the fact they have all the curves in the right places - but thank F&$K they aren't boring boxes....
     
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    julian2002 Muper Soderator

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    come on dom those minipods are a bit barbarella....
    what you want is some o'heocha's spiky war of the world specials..

    for me though the b&w nautilus (not the 800 series the origional mad looking ones) is just the sexiest piece of hi-fi ever, i don't care what they sound like...if i had the money i'd have a pair in a heartbeat and then spend money until they did sound good.

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    cheers


    julian
     
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    auric FOSS

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    Julian,
    good photo - it remindes me of a HR Giger designed lifeform hibernating deep within the Nostromo.

    Auric:)
     
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    auric FOSS

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    Lamboy,
    I agree about the cover photograph, it looks like a union made in Photoshop between a long dead Russian dictator and the captain of a star ship.

    Auric:)
     
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