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It's time for my remaining Arcams to go I'm afraid, will be going up for sale over the next few days as I've just agreed a deal for an Audio Analogue Maestro Settanta Rev1.0. About 2 1/2 years old but in great condition.

I'm looking forward to hearing it with the Unico CDE and Kudos C2 speakers, albeit there's a fair amount of work to do before this will be possible ie new rack needed, speaker box switch needed and speaker rewiring to ensure they are not baimped (no mean feat given they are covered by glued boxes on the kitchen wall and also hidden behind the huge fridge).

Maybe in a month's time it will all be ready and I will post pics.

Craig M.:

ha, i know what you mean, you get some nice equipment home feeling excited and then realise you need to rearrange the whole livingroom while you reroute cables, get the old boxes out of storage etc.  big mug of tea always helps along with an occasional biscuit.

It's getting the missus to do the dusting that will take the most time.

surely you could convince her that she likes that kind of thing?

Craig M.:

surely you could convince her that she likes that kind of thing?

 

Yer, naked.

PJPro:

Another week, another upgrade!

The last one. For a while. 

JoelSim:

PJPro:

Another week, another upgrade!

The last one. For a while. 

JoelSim:

 speaker box switch needed 

 . Hope you can find a good one. Any I've tried have spoilt the sound - a proper shame given the kit you have. Did you look at that Luxman one I mentioned?

lordmortlock:

JoelSim:

 speaker box switch needed 

 

 . Hope you can find a good one. Any I've tried have spoilt the sound - a proper shame given the kit you have. Did you look at that Luxman one I mentioned?

 

Guess not.

I did look at the Luxman but it was too expensive.

I've ordered a new rack.

I've ordered a QED SS21 parallel speaker switch box.

I've ordered Chord Signature jumper cables for both sets of speakers.

I'm picking up the Maestro Settanta tomorrow.

Joy.

And I love the A85, a great amp, but it was time to buy something else in keeping with the Unico CDE and Kudos C2s.

I'm now the proud owner of an Audio Analogue Maestro Settanta...

but I can't plug it in yet, ha ha.

I couldn't tell from the 10 minute demo I got on picking it up either as the guy's choice of music wasn't the ideal 'test', and I had a certain 2 year old with me who hasn't got the hifi bug...well not to my level yet unless Baloo the bear is involved!