Like the flac/flak pun.I've noticed that there's not many posts about Cyrus equipment here, despite the "prominence" in What HiFi.
I'm buying some Cyrus gear, and have had some in the past, but wondered why the lack of related posts?
I'm open to flac...
I never understood the change from Mission to Cyrus.I liked Cyrus when they were Mission and pretty affordable. They make no sense now.
Any love? Nope, not round these parts.I've noticed that there's not many posts about Cyrus equipment here, despite the "prominence" in What HiFi.
I'm buying some Cyrus gear, and have had some in the past, but wondered why the lack of related posts?
I'm open to flac...
Was £6k. Reduced to only £5k. Bargain. It must be worth it, then, if it was £6k last week.I see you can still get the new integrated with psu for less than 5k at fanthorpes so always a deal to be done
I share your view of the sound, a mate's dad had one back in the mid 80s and it always sounded thin and harsh to me. The mate in question had a Rotel 810 and Diamonds, or similar, in his bedroom, that sounded better.Any love? Nope, not round these parts.
Cyrus begat what I still think of as the 'Cyrus sound,' all leading edges and speed, but with no tonal colour or meat on the bones. Sort of CGI hifi, or painting by numbers with the outlines still visible after 'colouring in.' The sort of industrial noise What HiFi thought represented the state of the art in the mid-nineties (along with Audiolab). Add a pair of shiny Monitor Audios with metal drivers and you had, to my ears, the system from hell.
You can tell I've always been a big fan.
Some of the early Mission stuff on the other hand, was pretty decent, although it was sometimes hard to shake the perception that the concept was often better than the execution. Forty years back now, so I don't remember the back story in any great detail (and wasn't hugely interested at the time) but IIRC the Mission/Cyrus thing was the result of something of a rift in the lute between the Azima siblings rather than a planned rebrand. Cyrus started off as something of a 'diffusion line' for Mission to sell a less expensive line of electronics.