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[Kevin Wood]

If you like I can keep them exercised on my KT88 valve system

I was thinking they might be a little too much of a handful for my homebrew valve amp.  

also run-in any new speaker leads for you

Oh, dear. Make sure you've got the little arrows pointing in the right direction. Copper makes a very good diode after all  

I've heard that using them to jump start an Omega ru(i)ns them in quicker than listening to music too!

As an aside - tried finding a tv repair shop these days? Next to impossible.

Shop in my village has just packed up, although the guy still repairs stuff from home, I think. I guess rising labour prices and falling costs of new goods is to blame. That and the fact that everyone has to have the latest gadgets so most TVs probably get upgraded before they break.

Well it is Arcam... so will be excellent.

I wouldn't be quite so sure. I've got an Alpha 1. I know it's a budget player and the 7 is likely much better, but the construction of the thing is really nasty. It's got the most ghastly CD transport I've ever seen outside a Matsui midi system (the transport is made by Sony. Sorry, TB). It struggles to play anything other than a bog standard <74 minute CD, despite numerous attempts to tweak it.

It'll be the first thing to go if I ever get serious about hi-fi again. (I'm still getting grief about veneering the very attractive MDF speakers I built 8 years ago)  

Kevin

[x25xe]

also run-in any new speaker leads for you

Oh, dear. Make sure you've got the little arrows pointing in the right direction. Copper makes a very good diode after all  

I've heard that using them to jump start an Omega ru(i)ns them in quicker than listening to music too!

Ah yes, the great interconnect / cable debate.  Directional cables sound 50 times better you know!

As an aside - tried finding a tv repair shop these days? Next to impossible.

Agreed - sadly.

Shop in my village has just packed up, although the guy still repairs stuff from home, I think. I guess rising labour prices and falling costs of new goods is to blame. That and the fact that everyone has to have the latest gadgets so most TVs probably get upgraded before they break.

Exactly.  It is all part of this throw away society that we live in.  I still have two Ferguson TX tv sets at home - still in working order too!  The lack of a scart is the only thing that prevents them being in regular use.

Well it is Arcam... so will be excellent.

I wouldn't be quite so sure. I've got an Alpha 1. I know it's a budget player and the 7 is likely much better, but the construction of the thing is really nasty. It's got the most ghastly CD transport I've ever seen outside a Matsui midi system (the transport is made by Sony. Sorry, TB). It struggles to play anything other than a bog standard <74 minute CD, despite numerous attempts to tweak it.

I always thought (via What Hi-Fi magazine) that Arcam were good / the best you could buy.  Like the reference to the Matsui midi system!!

[Kevin Wood]

I always thought (via What Hi-Fi magazine) that Arcam were good / the best you could buy. Like the reference to the Matsui midi system!!

Me too. However, they built that name peddling (truly good) £1k+ separates and then decided to use it to sell a £200 CD player for £300 IMHO. The point I was trying to make is that it doesn't necessarily mean all their products are fantastic.

I'm not a subscriber to the directional speaker cable theory. I guess if I'd spent my youth honing my ears and studying the arts instead of trying to destroy them and studying engineering maybe I might have arrived at a different perspective  

Kevin

[Marks DTM Calib]

As I said, I dont rate the Arcam Cd players.....the amps are pretty good.

The Arcam Cd player uses the same CD transport as the 50 quid budget Sony units......

[ians]

I don't trust What Hi Fi at all.  I think their ratings are influenced by factors other than the product's performance.   Case in point being Misson speakers, which always get highly rated, but I have always found disappointing.

[Admin]

Some very interesting points put forward here, and I am going to leave the Arcam cd players alone.
As an aisde I have been offered a Pioner reference series amp by one of the guys from work for next to no money, so I will have that in the interim (or at least when I get in the office next Friday...)

On the cd player front, I have been reading VERY good things about the Cambridge Azur 640C. I will seriously look into this as everyone seems to rave on about it!


Matchless, many thanks for the kind offer to look after the speakers, but considering their size, I am not sure your wife would be quite so understanding and i would never want to be the cause of marital disharmony.

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Some very interesting points put forward here, and I am going to leave the Arcam cd players alone.
As an aisde I have been offered a Pioner reference series amp by one of the guys from work for next to no money, so I will have that in the interim (or at least when I get in the office next Friday...)

On the cd player front, I have been reading VERY good things about the Cambridge Azur 640C. I will seriously look into this as everyone seems to rave on about it!


Matchless, many thanks for the kind offer to look after the speakers, but considering their size, I am not sure your wife would be quite so understanding and i would never want to be the cause of marital disharmony.

There you go brand new here.
http://www.richersounds.co.uk/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=CAMB-640C-V2-BLK

[Admin]

Thanks.... alas I then listened to Marks....  8-)

I have now decided to wait until he is out one day and then go round and swipe his kit!  

[Martin_1962]

So Dave - how is the new HiFi going?

Have you thought about trying a modified DVD player as a CD player.

There is a long thread on a US bulletin board about modifying a Pioneer DV575 and the end result sounding like a £500 CD player