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Arcam AVR Receivers
My local ARCAM dealers have been running 20%+ promotional sales for quite some time this year. Add on the seasonal Black Friday price cut frenzy, and especially on a further AVR30 model discontinuance by ARCAM that predicates a NOS product dump .... 
HiFi legends ageing and going deaf
They typed their symptoms into WebMD …..They got a reply says they are simply OLD.    
Active Wireless speaker, Dynaudio, Buchardt or Sonus Faber?
Think ATC range for actives.   
Current or Previous Harbeth Owners…
@yogiboy “ …l @akg_ca Why would you call the thin wall design a major detriment? Many other speakers use this design including Spendor, Graham, Falcon, Stirling, etc., etc,. It’s been around for over 60 years and many enjoy BBC type speakers…” ... 
??? Full Loom vs Mix ???
My experience: Mix or full loom? It depends entirely on the bespoke audio performance characteristics of your current (emphasis added); audio system . In a prior system, I started with an ad hoc cables mix driven primarily by the alchemy of av... 
Current or Previous Harbeth Owners…
Have I heard speakers that impressed me enough to consider a possible replacement for  my M30.2 XD’s? Yes and No …. Let me explain … NO: Nada at its speaker current pricepoint nor even if you double it and a bit more,….. YES ….. but only at sig... 
Help with speaker issue
@smys1031 That’s disappointing but not surprising the part that KANTO is minimizing is that the “odd” model number KANTO YU active speakers were the “first generation” (V1) models floated out there . The next generation V2 were “even number “ Y... 
Help with speaker issue
Hmmm ….. this is just a guess based on my personal experiences. I had the KANTO YU-5’s and KANTO subwoofer in a prior desktop PC rig, and then moved to a 2.1 TV audio “ C” system. The speakers similarly suddenly f****d up royally, with no easy ex... 
Hang em High and Gilligan's Island
Is this what you are looking for, as part of Clint’s spaghetti western trilogy ?  The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Ennio Morricone - Original Soundtrack  https://youtu.be/LdLQf1Ef9Ns?si=MOqB-bSGKwUlrcPJ  
Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier
How about COPLAND?  https://copland.dk https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/copland-cta407      
You're not a true audiophile unless...
With all the posts received, we can safely say that - insert your own phrase preceding “phile” …( eg audio, music, lifestyle, digital, tube, basshead , blah, blah …) , and, - now we have a intuit variant of a cult following in a common hobby tha... 
Reliability - what’s your experience been?
On the positive side: A case study counterpoint argument to “bad” reliability : REGA ISIS / REGA ISIS VALVE cdp/dac   Those worried about the viability of the CD format and getting your player serviced in the future, fear not. Inside the owner’... 
Reliability - what’s your experience been?
(1) Before I upgraded to separate components in my discrete stand-alone 7.2 HT system, I had the brand new very top model CAMBRIDGE AVR. Its HDMI board died suddenly and catastrophically after 19 months from new, OK…. Fine .,,, it was an PITA inco... 
Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say?
My take …. A couple of things (1) Understand your differing orbits before you compare them There is likely a chasm between the respective party perspectives when a guest is considering expressing feedback or an opinion on the homeowner’s audio ... 
Who puts their speakers right up against the back wall and why?
LARSEN speakers out of Sweden. They are designed that way ,   https://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/larsen-model-9-loudspeaker/