Recent content by unhalfbricking

I think you're absolutely right. I have my KEF Q-300s situated on a sideboard (L) and tall, thin table (R). The bass was always a touch soft and woolly and lacked melody (I like picking out bass lines). At the suggestion of Vladimir I tried out sorbothane feet to go underneath the speakers at...

How about 'Hergest Ridge' by Mike Oldfield (1974). A very mellow, almost introverted album, but with nice tunes and a really organic feel. Draw the curtains, light a few candles, put your slippers on and draw up an easy chair....

You say you want 'clear separation between instruments and voices', 'not muddy', 'crisp, yet with good bass' -- how about KEF Q-300s? Their instrument / vocal separation is stunning, they have a really expressive, crisp midrange and great detail in the treble, and this is all balanced off with...

Some more scientific data has just come in on this whole alcohol / hearing issue. I sat and listened to 'Black Sea' by XTC (1980 -- 2001 remaster) at 5pm this evening on my hi-fi (system details see below), stone cold sober, with bass and treble levels both flat (i.e. set a '0') and volume set...

Have you thought about staying with Creek and trying their Evo50 or Evo100 models?

Thanks. A large part of me thinks that Arcam A18 to Creek Evo 50 is a sideways move and isn't worth the chunk of money. (I picked up the Arcam new for £299 from Richer and the Creek would likely cost more than double that.) You know how it is, though...the voices in your head keep urging you to...

Sorry to put your 'name in lights' in the thread title -- but you made a comment in the 'Vladimir' thread which I found interesting. You mentioned that you miss the sound of your Creek Evo50, having replaced it with a Leema Tucana ii. I am interested in this because I have several times...

Ha! There you go! Anyway, I woke up this morning with a bit of a 'thick head'. Played the same CD (XTC, 'Skylarking', Steven Wilson stereo remix) on my system and 'presto!'...treble's back. I tend to enjoy music more when I've had a drink, but after two glasses of wine the 'top end' of my...

I like to listen to music on my hi-fi with a glass of wine in my hand. I tend to find, though, that after I consume a couple of glasses of wine the 'top-end' of my hearing (i.e. the ability to hear treble) starts to go. Initially, I thought that this was just 'listening fatigue', but I'm more...

After three years of tweaking and fiddling with my system I have finally relaxed and am in a good place with it. I have upgraded the interconnect from the freebie to a £20 Audioquest, changed the cable, isolated the Q-300s on sorbothane feet (I don't use speaker stands!) and moved both speakers...

I watched that feature on the KEF Muons. I'm not sure what it set out to prove. Yes, the KEF speakers were humungously expensive (£140,000). Yes they went to ridiculous lengths in the production process (as befits £140,000 speakers). Yes they sounded a whole world better than the Q Acoustics...

I bought the WHF March 2016 '20 greatest speakers' edition precisely because it specifically featured hi-fi kit. Once I got home and read it I quickly realised that the whole multi-page feature was a cut-and-paste job from previous reviews featuring little or no new reviews or information. The...

The recent 2014 remaster of 'Zeppelin IV' sounds excellent to my ears and is generally well thought of. Compared with my late 80s copy the new 'IV' has far greater punch, edge and clarity. Steven Wilson re-mixes are almost universally praised (especially the miracles he performed with 'Aqualung'...

Thanks for the heads-up! This new release is especially interesting because I don't currently own a CD copy of the album. I bought it on vinyl back in about 1978 (and subsequently played it to death), but for some reason when I sold all my vinyl about ten years ago, I never replaced it on CD...

How refreshing to hear somone say that they have enjoyed recent remasters! All I ever read on the Steve Hoffman music forum is this orthodoxy that the original CD release (usually from the 1980s) always sounds best and all subsequent remasters are inferior. The reason they cite for this is that...