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Luxman/Accuphase/Yamaha - Quality?
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Alex S
carbon based lifeform
So you think they are that badly designed. A blind test will prove they are not. They may be so badly designed that turning them on and and off significantly shortens their life, I don’t know, but leaving anything on all the time is a guarantee to a shorter lifespan of the parts therein.
Chris81
pfm Member
So you imply that most of the Naim users who let there stuff switched on are deaf or stupid?
As I said, turning on and off is doing more damage to many electrical stuff compared to let it run the whole time.
This has nothing to do with bad design in my eyes.
You can say the same things about bulbs, car engins, etc..
As I said, turning on and off is doing more damage to many electrical stuff compared to let it run the whole time.
This has nothing to do with bad design in my eyes.
You can say the same things about bulbs, car engins, etc..
Rockmeister
pfm Member
I was making a more general point. Switching does cause a current surge I imagine and also causes wear to the switch of course, but does this offset the extra use of permanent running ?
The Pioneer M-22 looks pretty solid.
I do not have experience with many high end integrateds such as £19k Vitus SIA-025 mk2 or amps in the similar price bracket. The Luxman L-590AXII is the costliest integrated amp that I have tried and this is the first time I'm experiencing a "complete" sound. In many ways the Luxman has surpassed the quality and performance of the costlier Naim pre/power which I also happen to own when used with the Marten Duke 2. In the simplest choice of words, it just sounds right as nothing sticks out like a sore thumb, no fireworks of any sort. Composed and assured, good clarity with a clear window, no smearing of notes. Once you experience this sort of quality, there isn't much reason to waste your time with integrateds in the £1,000 to 2,000 price range. I do hope the Harbeth Super HL5+ will overturn the result though.
Some early photos of the Luxman (it's now moved to the bottom of the rack). It's really massive. The Sonneteer Orton and Naim looked like a toy next to the Luxman.
Cereal Killer
432
Always such beautiful pics, you have nice natural light in that room.
Aural
Once hornucopia.Now lying flat.
Nice! Depends on the speaker, of course. Both my speakers only need a few watts to work well (Ocellia Calliope, / Opera Consonance Horns) so a Pass F3 with 15 watts Class A is more than adequate.
(For a split-second, looking at your pics, I thought it was a Huawei Amp! Resist the US propaganda!)
(For a split-second, looking at your pics, I thought it was a Huawei Amp! Resist the US propaganda!)
I connected my DAC to the 590AXII with both single ended and balanced and switched between to assess. The balanced was significantly better and I disconnected the single ended and continue to use the balanced.
DAC is an Opera Consonance Reference 8 Pro 25th anniversary http://opera-consonance.com/products/digital/Reference8pro.html
Cables were Osborn Silverlink (both single ended and balanced) https://www.osbornloudspeakers.com.au/product-page/osborn-silverlink-pure-silver-interconnects
Cereal Killer
432
It certainly does look to be a more substantial chassis than the equivalent Accuphase (E-650)
Cereal Killer
432
Have you upgrade the E470? you mention 'old'?
TheDecameron
Unicorns fart glitter.
Leaving hifi switched on permanently was certainly a thing once (not sure if it was part of flat earth shamanism). My current phono stage (Ayre) has no off switch and it’s predecessor, a Densen DP Drive went back at least twice to fix its soldered on mini light bulbs after they failed ( it has a novel lamp+ photocell power arrangement for first gain stage in order to reduce psu noise). Leaving it permanently on killed the lamps and the company pointed this out.
Also reminds me - the linn Valhalla is always ‘on’ and those two fat power resisters get as hot as hell.