My trip to the seaside this weekend.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Nadia and I have been to Herne Bay for a stay with Paul and Pam Messenger, who have been friends for nearly 30 years. Really nice time and lots of laughs and reminisces (he is an old git like me). I had sent him the prototype BMU to play with, he likes so he has ordered a new one with BS546 fitted. He is also buying a TSS and pre and cable.

This afternoon we took a walk to visit Kazam (member here) who is 5 mins walk from Paul's place. What a lovely system and Paul was impressed as well. His PMCs were not faultless but were doing better musically than I expected, we didn't get to hear the old Cube1s though. The TFS was doing its job really well and made me wish I had kept mine, but I really couldn't have with trying to deal with Jason ever again, so better not to have it.

Got back tired but feeling good. Paul always has loads of interesting stuff to look at and play with. I was putting up with his Naims per usual when he went and got some 3.5 watt single ended class A monoblock jobbies with really ancient output valves (forgot the number) out of one of his hi-fi cupboards. OK the bass drum almost disappeared from some recordings and the high hat developed a slightly artificial sheen (all output transformer problems) but the mid range and projection of the music was seriously good. I have found another set of valve amps I like. Though these were specials built for him.

[southall-1998]

Sounds like you had fun, Richard.

Never heard any PMC speaker, but they carry a very good reputation.

S.

[_D_S_J_R_]

What speakers is he using these days?

Shane, PMC's have doubled in price in not too many years and they use transmission line loading, which is all you need to know regarding bass performance - there's good and LOADS of bad here in this technology as you don't get owt for nowt and your baby TDL's should tell you all you need to know;)

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Paul is reviewing some really strange things (I have forgot the name ). Looked like the box / body off of a really large (bass) lute on a built in single post stand. 8 inch full range driver with whizzer cone, very like Visaton B20, with a wooden centre plug, and with a small ribbon above as a super tweeter. Very musically sweet and matched the valve amps beautifully but lacked real poke and welly for a flat earth system like Paul's Naim 500. Interestingly his speaker of pref at the moment is PMC but bigger ones than Kazam's ones.

BTW these odd lute shaped speaker are £14k

[southall-1998]

Hehehe, it's those odd bird looking speakers. Made in Italy, I think?

S.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

I think he said they are German. The name hasn't stuck in my brain because I have never heard of them.

[southall-1998]

I'm guessing these are the ones? I could be wrong!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... c14f8c0e93

S.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Nope, nothing like it. I really couldn't take those things seriously.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Found them !

[southall-1998]

They look mature compared to those oddballs I've linked!

S.