Recent content by Rana

Sold on Ebay.

Just accepted an offer on our place after being on the market for 9 months and several viewings. Wondering if the proliferations of speakers put all the others off! Sore point is that the new place has only space for one system.....

I am only casually interested but the Flikr links don't work for me (have signed in).

Price drop to £500 for Fishies sold on here, and £480 cash if collected (firm). (Ebay advert is on one of their weekend 80% off fees offer)

He really rates his 1sc speakers as a reference. Are they really that good?

Now on Ebay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305522136820?mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5338728743&customid=&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

Purchase of a smaller Fujifilm X100F means my silver body X-E2 with it excellent kit lens is up for sale. It is in very good condition and comes with a brown half body "PU leather" case, standard charger, battery and hood. Battery life is very good. Not sure how to do shutter count on XE-2s but...

Tempted as I am close. But will be moving to a home with less space for kit.... :-(

I bought a couple of DACs influenced in part by ASR. One was a moderately expensive SMSL pre/DAC which got sold on when I got my Lindemann preamp/DAC. The Lindemann obliterated the SMSL as it should do given the cost difference. I still have a Topping D10S and it's a fabulous little USB DAC for...

I just called them up and Churchill offered to match the cheapest online quote (well, actually they beat it by £1).

I also got involved with a short lived valve amp manufacturer Concordant Audio which was effectively an ex-Leak engineer called Doug Dunlop (RIP). I met him via Five-Ways HiFi in Brum who recommended him to service my used Quad II amps that I had bought off them. Doug convinced me to upgrade...

O’hEocha loudspeakers. Very unique looking beasts designed by an extremely tall Irishman called Aonghus O'hEocha, who looked like a 1950's Hollywood film star. I used to work with the man himself at Rover Group in Longbridge during the BMW days. We codeveloped the K-Series engine "power intake...

Actually that's £1725 for like for like package, so Ian's deal was still a good one at £1300.

My insurance with Churchill was a "mere" £330 last year. The renewal quote came out at £430 but had to go searching online to actually retrieve it. Shopping around the cheapest I could get was a bare bones package with Swinton at £370.

Al Stewart (78) is still touring and now has a young backing band with him (The Empty Pockets). Seen him in concert many times from 1987 to late 2019. He's still good but can't hit the higher notes anymore as might be expected.