My guess was provide a bypass to all the other jewellery.
I did see a favourable review of this in a magazine this month, although have to say slim read once it started to describe the volume mechanism and just wondered “why?”
July Hifi news has it covered.
I hope it won’t be like the Strausser juke box: CD player, turntable, radio and streamer inside. But difficult to find uglier.
I think to remember I had seen it in Hifi News, the last number, as you said.
There’s a review on the new SME 60 turntable and the Lumin P1, so I bought exceptionally the magazine online.
I went to not my usual dealer and they had what i thought was a freebie giveaway from Rose for dealers as it looked like a clock and calendar. Nope it was a preamp and dac….the screen was very versatile, you could even have dual vu meters looking like McIntosh, Nagra etc. Clever gimmick…….but rather average sound.
The Rose is a glorious work of art!
Has anyone here actually heard one in action? How does it perform?
Edit (some time later): No? I thought not……
Beautiful! My Dad had a Sansui tuner-amp some fifty years ago that looked a lot like that Sony. I think my brother still has it.
One question is what does vintage mean? I believe that in the antiques trade it means between 40 and 100 years old, but elsewhere even as young as 20 years is sometimes referred to as vintage, though personally I think that is too young.
Are these vintage, or vintage style?
Tannoy Westminster Royal, as made today - and has been, through about 5 editions but essentially unchanged, for at least 30 years, possibly approaching 40…
My Dad has one these in the loft and I love the retro 70s look. I have no idea if it’s any good but I have a long term aim of dusting it down and refurbishing it. It’s a Philips 22RH520. He also has a Nakamichi wood sided, top loading tape deck which I think is the 500 as pictured below.
Be careful - not sure but I believe maybe naim musos might be made there
Are they awful ???
Looks like they are trying to steal the look from Nagra. Less going on and more stylish with my integrated IMO.
Took my eye recently. I don’t dislike it, although on closer inspection it could have been executed better. The gears are behind a clear plastic cover instead of glass. Those knobs are a mix of metal and silver plastic. The volume meter looks like it needs to be used in a suspect nightclub with an atmosphere of sweat, smoke and spilt alcohol residues to get a nice yellow hue and grime in those gears.
The VU meters only serve to show the input voltage ?
Saying that, with a custom speaker without a crossover and using this amps unique facility ~ could well sound amazing.
Don’t know. I’ve never understood the wood aluminium combination. Don’t dislike either, but the combination has never appealed to me. Not then, not now
Accuphase & Luxman never changed. Technics did a decent modern interpretation recently.
Wish I had space and money. Dream!
Yes the Muso range are made there. I suppose that’s the only way that Naim can meet the cost point and have the capacity to produce them. At least they’re not trading on a long gone British name and ‘retro’ styling.
They have a great reputation for sound, but for look, no no no.
The Roberts radio, to me, is a lovely thing that just looks right. That Rose amplifier, on the other hand, just looks like a piece of crap. Awful design, cheap and manky materials. Unspeakably dreadful. Retro can be lovely. Perhaps the difference is that the Roberts is pretty much exactly the same as the designs of decades ago, whereas the Rose looks like it’s come out a project to ‘make it look retro’, which in this case has resulted in something that may look retro but in an extremely bad way. For example, those cogs just look ridiculous. They have no purpose. In a good design, everything should have a purpose.
I’d never heard of Rose before this week , and see Audio T now stock them. Totally agree with you on your comments.
I understand the Leak design and products and if IAG own them , good luck to them - I confess to buying Audio purely on looks - without hearing it (Ruark speakers - and they were lovely) .
My inclusion of Roberts Radio is probably unfair , they’ve kept the design basics and updated the capability, so it’s a bang up to date.
The overall design is testament to the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
But surely it fits with the theme of vintage styling - and indeed vintage (though not outdated) speaker design?
As for those looks, it’s a classic British Stately Home type of look, and would fit perfectly in a house with wood panelling (and a very big room!). The price is high (understandably), and they are very rare on the secondhand market - I did see a pair a few years ago at a (just) contemplatable cost - then I reminded myself of their dimensions, and the fact that they do need a very large room!
