Currently have the proac 10 sign which i like for it’s fast bass and immediate sound , but sometime a bit to much ….forward….and high also not always friendly with not so so recording
So PmC Twenty5 21i are on my radar since years…but never tried them …so far
I couldn’t get along with the Nova and ProAc T10 Signatures. The sound was very fast but I got so little bass that jazz records just didn’t work. It’s totally different with the PMCs, still tight and fast, perhaps more so, but with a far better balance. The PMCs can give a much better sense of scale; the ProAcs couldn’t really handle higher volumes well, at least in my room.
Four pieces of 10mm toughened glass, plus some stainless balls and washers. The wood I already had ‘in stock’ - some mahogany window framing that wasn’t straight enough for its original purpose.
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Someone here (@easeback1 possibly) recently posted a pic of his cool looking racks and it sparked me into action. The stackable ‘three legged stool’ idea seems to me very logical and looks more like furniture than your average rack. Mind you, with only hand tools and an ancient radial arm saw at my disposal, getting the repeatable accuracy required was er … interesting
The back of the kit is 22cm away from the radiator. Armed with my recently acquired infrared thermometer (gotta get that pizza stone just right) the radiator measures 60C, the preamp 23C. Room temp is 20C. No issue really.
Those are beautiful speakers, sorry I missed it but what made you move on from the Tab Signatures you had? I’ve always liked PMC from a distance but never had a chance to listen to them here in the states.
I’ve just done Super Lumina DIN - XLR upgrade on my 500DR. It was preloved so run in and it’s tremendous. It’s got m thinking about completing the full loom with the speaker cable. It doesn’t come up used very often though and even if it does it needs to be the right length.
I wasn’t sure whether to put this on show us your pets, or here. For nearly a year we’ve been using a Google Nest Wifi Pro mesh system and the Naim has been pretty reliable in that time. But in the last week I’ve had enormous problems, with some or all of the Naim boxes disappearing from the network for no apparent reason. I thought I’d fixed it once, which involved multiple restarts of everything, only for them to vanish again two days later. I got them all back bar one Qb, and nothing I could do would get it to work. Rather than fret about it I just left it. ‘It will come back again’ said Mrs HH, and two days later it did. All by itself, with no intervention whatsoever.
The Qnap was involved in this disappearing act too, so it had to be a network thing. The Nest is delightfully simple but also pretty impenetrable, so all I could discern was that the non working things were offline rather than simply idle. And why they were offline I’ve no idea. It’s just something that drives one potty.
So today the pet manta ray arrived. It seems pretty powerful, and the iMac and printer upstairs still work, which is great. And the Naims all work too, which is even better of course. The manta wasn’t cheap, so I’m going to have to try getting a credit on the Nest. It came from Amazon, and I’m hoping they will be accommodating.
I was keen to downsize to a very simple system in 2022 and tried a Nova with the ProAcs, but just couldn’t get along with the sound, which was impossibly bass-light and just didn’t work with upright bass on acoustic jazz. So I effectively wrote off the Nova.
In January this year I borrowed another Nova and a pair of the little PMCs - I’d had PMCs in the past and liked them - from my very helpful local dealer. I wasn’t expecting much, but was surprised to find that I preferred the Nova/PMC to the on paper much superior NDX2, XPSDR, Supernait 3 and the ProAcs.
So that was that really, I swapped over and have been really happy with it. I’ve covered this on here before, so apologies if some find this old news, but I thought I’d put the whole story in one place for you.