Recent content by IanG-UK

Presumably now, if released in 2018, it will be called the Quad ESL 61 to commemorate 61 years of Quad. Or maybe they will wait until 2020 and call it the Quad ESL 63 Mk 2.

I've been running a pair of silver Phantoms (fed from a MacBook Pro) for 9 months including 1 month on Branch stands. I've heard them demonstrated pretty poorly at two Devialet-controlled places where there seemed to be a desire to demonstrate their loudness capability. At home, played at the...

... though pretty much every single product review in HFN scores between 80% and 90%. It's a pretty silly scale they use, hardly discriminatory; even worse that the Colloms one in HiFi Critic which is hugely discriminatory in a range of 5 to 450.

I have a suspicion it will be the Tesla

These look to be perfect in terms of height, top plate, colour; and incredibly cheap: https://www.vidaxl.co.uk/p/50138/aluminum-speaker-stands-transparent-safety-glass-2pcs

Yes but it won't have the Devialet name on it (which you cannot see, of course) which presumably improves the sound quality :confused:

Yes I use a couple for my two D-Premiers (now a 500). Think they are around £70 each and available through UK dealers. Ideally you need to build a frame, faced with acrylic or perspex, below the wall mount so that cable emerging from the D-Premier is concealed. Can make a very neat job and...

Well, after two years of having dual mono D-Premiers in a rack, I've wall mounted them both (now 240s) using the Devialet mounts. Four comments: 1 It means I have no hifi rack now - just the 240s and my MacBook Pro and the speakers 2 It is easy to conceal the minimal numbers of wires - you...

Why does 31 get two goes?

Martin Colloms, in my view a pretty hard-nosed reviewer, tested and listened through a PS Audio PPP in an early issue of HiFi Critic and was pretty unqualified in his praise. Paul Miller of HFN uses a PPP in his reference system. Allegedly the PPP replacements, P3 and P5 and P10, are...

... or that the belt ranking is white, red, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown and black ...

To return to the OP's enquiry, I have two Devialet D-Premiers. Before I bought them I used a PS Audio Power Plant Premier mains regenerator. So I just plugged the D Premiers into that. Sounds better/worse/same? Can't say and can't be arsed to "test" it. Just feels better that my kit always gets...

... and you will find Disbeliever (AKA highfidelity) does the same in relation to Devialet on HiFi Wigwam until, allegedly, his real identity was exposed. On topic, the Fact 12s are, in my opinion, pretty fine if you come from the territory of liking Quad electrostatics like the 63, 988, 2805.

... which I charged up using the Rega mains lead

1 Nothing better to do; or 2 Likes the product but cannot afford it; or 3 Envious of their success and perhaps did not have that himself with Mayware; or 4 Hates the French