How it looks / not how it sounds

JohnF · February 27, 2019, 9:06am

My first amp purchased in 1971. I still think it looks good as it was well made.

ClaudeP · February 28, 2019, 1:40am

John, it reminds me of an old classic

feeling_zen · February 28, 2019, 4:45am

Luxman are not far off. Current design of one of their integrates. Just something soo comforting about the design. Of course I’ve never heard a thing they’ve made.

anon32455950 · February 28, 2019, 8:31am

Would have to be olive on phased mana. With a nice set of black Sl2 speakers hanging out of it, now we are talking sexy

james_n · February 28, 2019, 8:38am

All the wrong things - meters, tone controls etc but what a beautiful looking piece of kit.

Clive · February 28, 2019, 11:24am

Not my picture, but I love the styling of the Armstrong 621 amplifier. I purchased one in the late 70s but it had a fault and foolishly I took it back to the shop and purchased a Technics amp instead.

james_n · February 28, 2019, 12:19pm

Yep - they did look lovely. A friends Dad had one, with the requisite SP25 and Celestion Ditton 15XR speakers.

feeling_zen · February 28, 2019, 12:23pm

Like so many here, the A60 was the first bit of hifi I bought with my own money. And it’s simply an icon of elegant British design. I drove Bose 901s with it fed by a Sony d121 Discman. The mullet of mullets. But it did great.

I must still have it tucked away in my mum’s loft back in the UK.

TOBYJUG · February 28, 2019, 2:06pm

Hart Audio.
Continuing the theme of very expensive hifi that looks bonkers, but may well sound sublime.
looks like it was designed by an 8 year old girl imagining what a speaker would look like in a mermaids parlour and made by an A level art student.

Dozey · February 28, 2019, 2:11pm

Ugh! The height adjustment looks useful though.

benjy · February 28, 2019, 2:18pm

At first I thought that was the prize in a golden gloves fight

TOBYJUG · February 28, 2019, 3:06pm

Probably packs a punch. Might have issues with imaging with either the left or right being stronger than the other.

benjy · February 28, 2019, 3:29pm

Even the newer luxman with meters and tone controls look good. If I’d known about them and could have heard them, I’d have definitely looked into them. Now the box count is too high to change

frenchrooster · February 28, 2019, 4:04pm

perpetuum ebner turntables, from 2k to <4k

frenchrooster · February 28, 2019, 4:37pm

would you buy these? perhaps not for me, in my 20 m2 room…

Peder · February 28, 2019, 6:54pm

Frenchrooster,…I have heard these, impressive…BUT,…not for ordinary rooms .
You’ll probably must live in a castle.

/Peder

Dozey · February 28, 2019, 7:24pm

If I had the right room …

suzywong · February 28, 2019, 8:24pm

Lovely. Very similar to the one my father bought in the early seventies. It’s still in use in the “family home” under the care of my bruv!

MDS · February 28, 2019, 8:45pm

The Armstrong’s were prone to failure. A friend of mine got one. He didn’t keep it long because when I heard it I wasn’t impressed and then I took my A&R A60 over to his place and it trounced the Armstrong. He took that Armstrong back and bought an A60.

anon91012398 · February 28, 2019, 9:05pm

Well, I have heard this carefully, and it does sound really good.