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  1. achim

    Has anyone here had experience with any Audio note products? Kindly share your opinion.

    @HOTaljaard .....a.) they have a very loyal fan base like only few other brands as well. b.) You ll find 2nd hand AN products in Europe...but not here and they ll still be not cheap. The motivation for 2nd hand buyers here in SA is to buy very known products very cheap - no matter through how...
  2. achim

    Has anyone here had experience with any Audio note products? Kindly share your opinion.

    Absolutely serious business by Andy Smith who loves and lives AN (UK). Their "chains or systems" making sense if someone loves the AN Sound. Walks on water? No only me walks on water........😇
  3. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    ...are you guys still debating here.... cool...... I had some very nice festive days, Santa Claus landed the new Diablo 333 precise on the 24th and I truly enjoy my little Status Symbol. I only can invite everybody here to come and listen to an absolute outstanding integrated amp at few...
  4. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    I am very glad that this cannot be one of my products - you never asked me for a particular price of a product in that price range. But my advise ....Go for it! Buy it! Just now I would make you pay 2 million Rand extra 😂😂😂 On a serious note - only to understand: What product will cost you R...
  5. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    Ari..... I m glad you open the door for a little break..... I think this "Bubble of Extremes" will remain - it might get smaller but ll target those who do not really know what to do with all their money, who are not experienced or deeply interested enough and belonging to that group of...
  6. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    I think nobody got the irony...well its a prejudice that Germans having no humor but only we Germans know - we have! Your comment hits the nail on its head.... The one Organizer of the Expo is inspiring the market for international shopping sprees - the other Organizer is shooting bargains (for...
  7. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    What is the message here Jozua? And more important - what is your intention? Is there anything wrong that I am - as HFX, Listening Room, Air, Tweak and others - Importer, Distributor and Dealer? In my believe this gives me the option to do good to my clients and to survive in a difficult market...
  8. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    @Dreamerm6 ...... I have no clue about the Denons, Yamahas and Marantz in this world of today. I guess they all in deep s.....! I m out of the Volume driven business since a long time - and dont wanna go back there. But in all honesty and with great respect for your achievements regarding your...
  9. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    @Jozua... you must please decide if you want to argue with me here - or partly via your PMs to me (otherwise it confuses me..). You say there is no agenda of stabbing in the back of others - but this is very precisely what you do - and you dont get it! What btw is your intention to point out on...
  10. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    I do not know one of my collegues or competitors who has the arrogance to say "take it or leave it" - not even myself! And its not on me to defend myself here because I think I am a fair partner to all my clients - but you should truly re-think your statement here as the CEO of the Cape Town...
  11. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    ..last word about the shown Diablo.... yes this is a Diablo, but not a Diablo 120, 300 or 333. This Diablo The Diablo" retailed 2012 / 2013 at EURO 12.500 (rounded up including VAT). So the R 72K of your friend ( EURO 3.800-4.000) is a fair price for a 13 or 14 year old Integrated Amp and an...
  12. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    @chris.... of course we dont have control over another retailers doing - thats not my point. But YOU and JOZUA as Board Members and CEO of the Cape Town HiFi Club & the HiFi Expo should have a bit more (self)control over the possible negative outcomes of what you are writing here. You are not...
  13. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    @chris...& Jozua..... I am kind of surprised - no I m truly shocked to read your less thoughtful comments (which btw can lead to very wrong pictures and also causing harm to our and my business). If everything is so amazingly cheap on the other side of the planet - and if its - as you say - more...
  14. achim

    Hi-Fi Mafia

    ...well we already have the Aavik type of Performance - in the beautyful Axxess cabinet... at a very decent price. I would even say that this level of Performance - at the "glorious" times of the real Mark Levinson products would have cost the Audiophiles at those times 5-10 times more. Today...
  15. achim

    Random youtube: Fixing fancy pre-amp

    ....Go on Gryphon Audio Website and look how beautyful and well made ANY Gryphon product looks from the inside. Check and compare their Legato Legacy Phono Pre with this cheap thrill from the Tom Evans Scandal....
  16. achim

    What comes first - the source or the speaker?

    I would consider your Purifi as a very good amp among many other very good amps (which measuring very well..as well). Purifi is a very Innovation driven company - as you may only find in Denmark in these days - this alone tells me there are many improvements to make - still - and this after...
  17. achim

    What comes first - the source or the speaker?

    @KenMasters... to which amp (Integrated or Pre & power) has your knowledge lead to? What is the amp you re using private? I only can asume that someone who knows so much about amps has made a final decision when it comes to his own private amp. Which amp of which technology and brand sets the...
  18. achim

    What comes first - the source or the speaker?

    what a refreshing discussion. I only can guess that some truly having fun and few others ..not - which even leads to more fun to the others..... Conclusion! Mods ...close this Forum! We reached the end - the finale. This here is a Siegfried & Roy Show..all is only an Illusion.......
  19. achim

    Big acoustic problem

    Timber is so right.... I would even go that far that the architect had no understanding for the purpose and needs of this building - he got this wonderful space to "please his ego" without thinking a milimeter further..... So it turns out as a kind of nice but useless example of modern...
  20. achim

    What comes first - the source or the speaker?

    ...following the direction of this discussion I can say " I might have the very best Placebos"....
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