That’s great. I am so happy with them. I demoed the PMC Twenty5 26’s, but they overwhelmed my room. I use the Bose SoundBar too, but have a Samsung Q90 TV.
The silver dCS Network Bridge and Matrix DAC has been replaced with a black dCS Bartók, which makes the 606’s really shine!
Looking solely at the fraim, black looks good. Looking at the previous pic of the room, silver seems to balance a bit better. But pic can be deceiving especially silver reflects whatever colour is it around it hence can look light or dark depending on light and direction of view. All black (to me) makes it look a tad heavy.
I really wonder why it costs £7770 to make the eames lounge chair plus the ottoman. I don’t think it was ever meant to be such a pricy product. It was a new product using new materials - plywood curved by Charles & Ray Eames’ own machine.
If a replica can be made without discernible differences in quality and function for 1/10 of the price. Then it really begs the question why the genuine article is so expensive. There are many areas of possible improvements can be made to the 1956 design, has any one of them been implemented?
Vitra’s own admission: “Vitra has produced the Lounge Chair by Charles and Ray Eames using the same manufacturing methods since the 1950s.” As a replica I might love this. As the real thing, banking on never need to improve anything isn’t a winning formula.
As said, the design is 1956. I fully back paying for R&D. Paying for it 65 years after is a bit extreme.
As a comparison, I wish the best to Naim and would happily support this company, hoping it will continue to come up with fixes, upgrades and better products over time, as long as I am capable of doing so.
It always surprises me that people automatically mention price when seeing furniture they recognize. It luckily never happens to me when they see our Knoll Womb chair, a lesser known icon. Hardly ever is price mentioned when the hifi is seen. But an Eames…
You can buy a genuine Rolex or a cheap replica. They look the same, more or less. The Eames is no different. If you are happy with a replica than that’s fine. If you want to real thing you pay the price.
All of my other eames stuff is real apart from the chair, I wanted to try the chair to make sure I liked it before getting a genuine one. I’ll have one at some point I just can’t afford it now ha…
Here is some alternate views, one through to hall fro listening chair and the view up front (need a wider angle lens). I have a few ESU’s the main big one is in the hall and other bits and pieces;