Steven Toy
Accuphase newbie
Mana now faces much stiffer competition.
Is Mana Back?
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Bazinga?
Bradders
The Pork Chop Express
Ah ha!
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In other news, I am excited Mana is back, because I can now get some extra "Stainless Steel Evil Spikes" and buy a couple of plates of glass to try the "Double Deuce Down Stack O'Glass Effect".
I can't wait to give them my credit card details and then sit back to wait for the order to be fulfilled... Oh... wait a minute...
With olive series Naim they worked very well. Certainly a significant improvement on sound organisation stands (no blind tests were done in forming this opinion).
Posters asking what they do could try searching the Naim forum for discussions and such like. Acting as a mechanical earth for the equipment sitting on them was the best theory (think Flemings rule). Naim brought out the Fraim about 6 months after that theory went on the forum and i understand all their 500 series gear has leaf spring suspension in it.
That's all from me. Given the nature of the forum lately there should be a naysayer along any second to scoff at the concept, demand "proof" and then put in something insultingly derisory about gullibility.
vuk
\o/ choose anarchy
Steven Toy
Accuphase newbie
They're about even on that score. Multiphase Mana does sway a bit.
Bradders
The Pork Chop Express
The question of whether Mana stands work has always been a thorny issue.
I'm happy to reiterate the ultimate conclusion of the Mana argument for any newcomers to this troubled area of hifi.
DOES MANA WORK?
Answer: "Yes":
Response: Big grins.
Answer: "No"
Rebuttal: Buffoon! You've set it up wrong.
I'm happy to reiterate the ultimate conclusion of the Mana argument for any newcomers to this troubled area of hifi.
DOES MANA WORK?
Answer: "Yes":
Response: Big grins.
Answer: "No"
Rebuttal: Buffoon! You've set it up wrong.
Chris
pfm Member
I´d forgotten how much people liked taking the piss out of Mana. As far as I was concerned "evil" spikes meant "long" spikes as opposed to "stubbies" which were considerably shorter and yes, stubby. As far as the glass was concerned Watson always said it was common as muck floated glass and could be bought from any glazier´s. The frames were extremely well made and true, expensive of course, but nip along to your nearest metalworker and see if he can or wants to make them the same, much cheaper. Those around this neck of the woods certainly can´t or at best, don´t want to know. Add in transport costs - Mana is bloody heavy - and I somehow can´t see it working out much cheaper.
As far as I´m concerned Mana works insofar as it affects the sound but it´s when the set-up goes off and you put it right that you notice what you were missing.
FWIW mine´s staying under my Linn.
As far as I´m concerned Mana works insofar as it affects the sound but it´s when the set-up goes off and you put it right that you notice what you were missing.
FWIW mine´s staying under my Linn.
Robert
Tapehead
Yay. And then I reached puberty
I have had many different direction changes since then, I can cram a lot in 8 years of not using Mana so it was not singled out for special back-pedalling. I have made making idiot HiFi decisions an alternative career path
I'm working on Frozen Water-based conductors instead of cable interconnects at the moment. A bit splashy at the top end though.
John
Rack’em Up!
Those same folks going ape shit adding it to their system hardly bat an eye when discarding several thousand dollars of the stuff, go figure!
per flemming
Registered User
Less now that they will be making it again
The old Mana forum was for a handfull of funny personalities, most of these may now be old grumpy.
sure there was input from intelligent people too, they usually repeated 3 words every day, buy more mana
I count Vuk for one of the most controversial mana experts thank good he is clever enough to put some photo and girls into the game
Best duels were between Pig and Parry but again have you read a few lines you've basically read it all
To be honest Mana did provide a change to performance delivered from a LP12 and some earlier Julian Naim stuff which I trust its basically developed on.
When JW introduced the stainless spikes they were all in heaven,
soon after mana resigned
MVV
pfm Member
Just sold one for £150 a bit cheap I think but happy enough. A good thing for the LP12 and Briks, as for amps I did not go there.
Steven Toy
Accuphase newbie
There is some truth to that statement. I had a pair of Sound Bases under a pair of Rega Naoses back in 2002 until 2006. In 2005 someone set them up properly for me and they were more effective thereafter.