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dudeman

static111 said:

I picked up a gently used Cambridge AXR85 from an older hifi head on of marketplace.  Sounds phenomenal.  The MM phono stage is amazing.  The sound is insane!

Cool! Congrats. 

Getting those speakers up off the floor and closer to ear level will dramatically improve your listening experience. Speaker stands can be found for pretty cheap or free on CL, FB or at garage sales or flea markets. Probably the biggest "bang for the bucks" improvement you could make right now. 

static111

dudeman said:

static111 said:

I picked up a gently used Cambridge AXR85 from an older hifi head on of marketplace.  Sounds phenomenal.  The MM phono stage is amazing.  The sound is insane!

Cool! Congrats. 

Getting those speakers up off the floor and closer to ear level will dramatically improve your listening experience. Speaker stands can be found for pretty cheap or free on CL, FB or at garage sales or flea markets. Probably the biggest "bang for the bucks" improvement you could make right now. 

Heading out of town for work for two weeks.  Stands are my next piece for sure.  We just moved around the living room and the shelf that I previously had them on was ear level, but it won’t work where we moved the stereo.  If I sit cross cross applesauce on the floor about 6 feet away it sounds phenomenal. Been listening all day and I am happy, there is maybe a small loss in warmth, but I can hear details like the guitar amp vibrato throb at the end of songs and little stuff like that that I couldn’t hear before.  Here is hoping this one lasts at least a decade.

mrussel1

static111 said:

I picked up a gently used Cambridge AXR85 from an older hifi head on of marketplace.  Sounds phenomenal.  The MM phono stage is amazing.  The sound is insane!

Looks like a current design. How old is it?

 You like better than the SX?

mrussel1

Also I dig the green U-turn

static111

mrussel1 said:

static111 said:

I picked up a gently used Cambridge AXR85 from an older hifi head on of marketplace.  Sounds phenomenal.  The MM phono stage is amazing.  The sound is insane!

Looks like a current design. How old is it?

 You like better than the SX?

Its 3 years old. Both the SX and AXR sound great. When saw this used for under $300 and was able to audition it at the guys house with a couple different speaker sets and turntables, it was an easy decision vs +$1000 for the CXR. Side by side would i have thought the CXR was better, maybe, but the axr in near mint for less than a third of the cxr was definitely a good choice.  I'm finding i like it more than the Pioneer.  Looking locally i can get $200-300 for the pioneer even with its current issues.

The green U-turn is great. I have had it for ten years since my old sansui crapped out.  No complaints.  Started out with orto red but now have grado green and really prefer the grado. My only wish is that it had auto stop, other than that no complaints.

I'm just happy i got a great sounding working stereo and was able to not spend an arm and a leg. 

static111

static111 said:

mrussel1 said:

static111 said:

I picked up a gently used Cambridge AXR85 from an older hifi head on of marketplace.  Sounds phenomenal.  The MM phono stage is amazing.  The sound is insane!

Looks like a current design. How old is it?

 You like better than the SX?

Its 3 years old. Both the SX and AXR sound great. When saw this used for under $300 and was able to audition it at the guys house with a couple different speaker sets and turntables, it was an easy decision vs +$1000 for the CXR. Side by side would i have thought the CXR was better, maybe, but the axr in near mint for less than a third of the cxr was definitely a good choice.  I'm finding i like it more than the Pioneer.  Looking locally i can get $200-300 for the pioneer even with its current issues.

The green U-turn is great. I have had it for ten years since my old sansui crapped out.  No complaints.  Started out with orto red but now have grado green and really prefer the grado. My only wish is that it had auto stop, other than that no complaints.

I'm just happy i got a great sounding working stereo and was able to not spend an arm and a leg. 

I inaugurated the new system with Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker.  I could hear the xompression on his voice and the throb of the guitar amp tremolo in the background during quiet parts.  I never heard those details previously. 

tempo_n_groove

static111 said:

static111 said:

mrussel1 said:

static111 said:

I picked up a gently used Cambridge AXR85 from an older hifi head on of marketplace.  Sounds phenomenal.  The MM phono stage is amazing.  The sound is insane!

Looks like a current design. How old is it?

 You like better than the SX?

Its 3 years old. Both the SX and AXR sound great. When saw this used for under $300 and was able to audition it at the guys house with a couple different speaker sets and turntables, it was an easy decision vs +$1000 for the CXR. Side by side would i have thought the CXR was better, maybe, but the axr in near mint for less than a third of the cxr was definitely a good choice.  I'm finding i like it more than the Pioneer.  Looking locally i can get $200-300 for the pioneer even with its current issues.

The green U-turn is great. I have had it for ten years since my old sansui crapped out.  No complaints.  Started out with orto red but now have grado green and really prefer the grado. My only wish is that it had auto stop, other than that no complaints.

I'm just happy i got a great sounding working stereo and was able to not spend an arm and a leg. 

I inaugurated the new system with Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker.  I could hear the xompression on his voice and the throb of the guitar amp tremolo in the background during quiet parts.  I never heard those details previously. 

I always wondered about the cambridge stuff.  Glad to know its actually good and useful.

mrussel1

tempo_n_groove said:

static111 said:

static111 said:

mrussel1 said:

static111 said:

I picked up a gently used Cambridge AXR85 from an older hifi head on of marketplace.  Sounds phenomenal.  The MM phono stage is amazing.  The sound is insane!

Looks like a current design. How old is it?

 You like better than the SX?

Its 3 years old. Both the SX and AXR sound great. When saw this used for under $300 and was able to audition it at the guys house with a couple different speaker sets and turntables, it was an easy decision vs +$1000 for the CXR. Side by side would i have thought the CXR was better, maybe, but the axr in near mint for less than a third of the cxr was definitely a good choice.  I'm finding i like it more than the Pioneer.  Looking locally i can get $200-300 for the pioneer even with its current issues.

The green U-turn is great. I have had it for ten years since my old sansui crapped out.  No complaints.  Started out with orto red but now have grado green and really prefer the grado. My only wish is that it had auto stop, other than that no complaints.

I'm just happy i got a great sounding working stereo and was able to not spend an arm and a leg. 

I inaugurated the new system with Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker.  I could hear the xompression on his voice and the throb of the guitar amp tremolo in the background during quiet parts.  I never heard those details previously. 

I always wondered about the cambridge stuff.  Glad to know its actually good and useful.

My first real discreet phono stage was Cambridge and it was nice.  I demo'd an integrated from them a handful of years ago and it was really nice.  I ended up going up market a bit, but I would have no problem with their stuff.  I think Static got a great deal.