What are you tempted by?

[Osiris]

Or maybe Donnington, we can always hope the Castle will return to being a half decent pub again , that Lodge place doesn’t look all that inviting…..

Good luck with whatever you choose to do .

ATB, J

[Ian2001]

Thank you

Best wishes

Ian

[stavrose]

Skinny women.

[HungryHalibut]

I was very tempted by a very nice lamp (I do like lamps) in Original BTC’s recent archive sale. I told myself I didn’t need it, then on the last day of the sale they sent a ‘last day’ reminder email. What the heck, it was 60% off normal price and the lamp table did look a little bare without a lamp.

[suzywong]

@HungryHalibut

What the heck, it was 60% off normal price.

Nice one!

[What_Are_You_To_Me]

Ansuz Thread

Setting aside the whole idea that a power cord can actually cost $44,000, the fact that one can get such huge discounts raises the question of how much one should actually pay for these things. Is 20% off a good price? Is it 50%? If dealers sell them for $11,000 ie 75% discount it just shows that the markup is astronomical and that anyone paying anywhere near list price is a mug. I’ve not paid full price for any Naim for over 30 years, and always get a discount of at least 10%, but never more t…

So you do like a good discount after all then?

[suzywong]

As I somewhat disingenuously posted upstream, I’m more inclined towards camera gear than hifi.

Why? you may ask? Sadly, because hifi has got way too costly to justify the expenditure.

[JosquinDesPrez]

@suzywong

hifi has got way too costly to justify the expenditure.

Hah…I’m in the middle of about $35k in upgrades (due to a nice windfall).

[HungryHalibut]

Absolutely, so long as the list price is genuine. I was going to include a line about the lamp being the Ansuz of lighting but thought better of it.

[What_Are_You_To_Me]

Love it

Nice lamp too

[glasnaim]

I have my Atom HE sitting on the bottom shelf of this table, nice fit if you haven’t tried it.

[HungryHalibut]

It would be in the wrong place in the room! Anyway the Atom sits on a much nicer table already.

[Middle]

Pilium Leonidas integrated amp. Shown here connected to Magico A5s at Rhapsody in Brooklyn, NY, where I heard them last week. It’s big (100 kg), and probably somewhat finicky, but it reproduced recorded sound with remarkable effortlessness and honesty. Perhaps too honest to live with? Amazing though.

[drago]

Very nice! Like it!

[CrazyRiver]

That looks like one live-sounding room.

[Middle]

I would have thought so, too, especially given those big Ferguson Hill transparent horn speakers behind the Magicos. In the event though I did not find the room too bright, at least not to my ear at the volumes we listened at.

[varyat]

Magico likes pairing with Pilium at shows…great sounding amps. They are beasts though. The monos are a 2 man gig for sure. The Greeks are putting out a lot of top tier gear, Ypsilon in same echelon.