Take a look at the photo I just found.
Mana phase 7 with an active SBL 4 pack. Looks crazy (very sympathetic wife) but sounded pretty good!
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Yes, pretty crazy - was the house suffering from subsidence? 
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The Leaning Tower of …….
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And then outperformed by Naim Fraim✌️
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@Polarbear will remember the Mana fights on a now defunct hifi forum!
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Debatable. I think they are more alike in sound than any other stands I’ve heard. I always found the Mana’s quite neutral and detailed despite many saying they could sound a bit ‘zingy’. I think zingy is more an issue if they weren’t set up properly. I still reckon my LP12 on a 4 stage Mana is the best it’s ever sounded.
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That’s actually tipped the house up. 
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Those were the days when everyone strived for a lot of boxes. Nowadays it’s the other way round.
Maybe in certain quarters, but I don’t think it was ever a mainstream hifi desire, that having been mainly source(s) preamp, power amp and speakers, though in Naim world an additional power supply or two.
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You are going to need a fleet of servants to dust that. Which is also my dislike of things like Fraim with it’s double-shelf design.
I have a hard enough time dusting simple open shelves but Mana strikes me as something designed by a person who never once did a moment of housework in their life.
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Where’s Halibut? Let’s hear it!
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The term “flatearthers” was very apt in those days 
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Hahahaha Definitely this is in the “if I’ve got nothing nice to say…” territory 
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Why members post those crappies pictures ?
Or , in a good mood : my Eol table needs 5 seconds to be cleaned.
Mannequin looks a bit hard faced. Surely silicone rubber’s the way to go.