Recent content by herb

When I started in this game in '69 recommended speakers were KEF Concertos. I heard some at shows and on a dealer comparator. They sounded very good with excellent bass and pure midrange as the drive units were KEF T27 B110 and B139. Apparently the crossover was a weak link and power...

I remember how much detail my Quad 57s recovered, sounds very similar.

Naim amplifiers sound different to my 150 wpc integrated with Harbeth C7s. Exposure amps definitely have a different sound signature in my experience.

With shop demos with passive ATCs what amplifiers ae normally used? My ATC integrated has a very specific sound and I suspect would drive passive ATCs optimally. I know the actives would be better but cannot accept the added weight . 20 kg is my upper limit.

Why? The purpose of the universe by Philip Goff - one of the most persuasive panpsychists says Stephen Fry.

I had to laugh when the GBNews team who emphasize Tory Englishness found out that according to their recently commissioned survey of watchers most were intending to vote Labour, by a significant margin. I wonder if Farage or Mogg will address this.

My memory is poor these days but was the 'Great Britain' merely to differentiate it from French Brittany which was necessary when the KIng was French/British. It should be Greater Britain, like Greater London or Greater Manchester.

Have you upgraded to Naim Super Lumina cables yet Mick, very expensive?

Ah Westbrook, William Blake, I do not know where to start. Very English.

What I do not get is the veneration of Saint George as though he was English. Many other countries worship him as an archetype of a warrior.

Wiki is very informative. Her link to Shostakovich is obvious and her music to me is a form of meditation. I only picked it up on this site in a discussion about bass instrument sounds. Love Pinkfishmedia.

Miles in the Sky with Tony Williams then Agharta.

in the 1960s Arthur Koestler thought that the human brain was faulty and was it possible go invent a pill to cure it? This was a time when the theory of left and right hemispheres was popular. The theory was that the two hemispheres did not communicate properly. The pill would make...

Chamber music by Galina Ustvolskaya this afternoon Much needed complex music

Douglas Adams H2G2 film was dreadful. The touring H2G2 radio show reduced it to pantomime, I walked out. The TV series was rather good as was the radio series but the books are excellent and predicted all sorts of things like mobile phones.