I remember the venerable Malcolm Steward being a devotee. I think Sound Örganisation did a lot to start the movement towards dedicated equipment racks, and then Mana took it to extreme levels, picking up many further apostles along the way
Indeed - I’ve not seen one in a Naim system for quite some time.
He seems to be doing some interesting things with equipment clamping - which I can of course see the theoretical benefit of, although somewhat aesthetically challenging!
I personally love the stuff when setup correctly.
But unfortunately there are a bunch of haters and it won’t be long before you get the negative people post in the Eiffel tower and start talking about getting ripped off and blah blah blah so good luck with the thread. If you’d like to get a taste of JOHN Watson just ask I think I’m qualified to a point as he’s pretty much told me a lot of his history over a year or two.
And yes he doesn’t suffer fools particularly especially those ones that don’t agree with him. Had a couple of original mana clamps. Set them back as I didn’t like what it had done on my cds. That’s when he stopped emailing me lol.
Well here’s mine. I got mine from RPM in Clapham James at TomTom, The CornflakeShop and ebay. The turntable is at a good height for me: I don’t want to be messing about with wall shelves…
The thing I’ve never got is the multiple base levels stacked and stacked and stacked - but I guess this is actually the secret sauce of what makes people love them…and yes - lots of people no doubt hate them, and while they aren’t “classically handsome” they certainly look purposeful.
I counted 13 levels underneath an LP12 in @Mick_B photo - which is utterly mind bending… But on the basis of “if it sounds better it is better” then I guess the owner feels the investment absolutely justified…
Years ago at a Heathrow hifi show I heard the effect of plonking a very basic CD player on top of a gently swaying Mana “tower”. It may have looked like an oil rig, but it sounded like the elixir of the Gods.