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Hi everyone, I'm hoping you can help me out here (and that I've posted this in the right spot). There's an opportunity to buy a Luxman 5L15 integrated amp and a 5C50 pre-amp from the Labrotory Reference Series, both say "customed by Lux..." on the front, I'm not sure if they all say that but the ones I could see on google all do. Anyway, I have no idea what a fair price would be and there aren't many listings to go off on ebay or other places online. From what I can gather a fair price for the amp might be 350-400, and maybe 300 for the pre-amp? Am I way off or is that in the ballpark? I've just turned on the amp and it works, but it definitely needs a clean as the knobs and switches crackle and a channel will drop in and out. The pre-amp can't be tested yet as the power lead has been cut off at the plug. The amp started emitting a weird smell like a burnt resistor or something so we turned it off, it was still running fine when we turned it off. They're both in similar condition, not perfect but pretty good considering their age. Regards, Daniel

ESL lovers - any users Quad 57 users in Auckland who would care to share their 57 wisdom with me? I have unexpectedly received a set of stacked 57s (still stunned by my good fortune) and would like to start a process of checking and/or rehabilitating them. I have the power leads (a bit shabby) and Bulgin plugs but I also have lots of questions.

Hi All, I have a Yamaha RX-V1065 receiver and I had 4 speakers (only) for about 7 years in my very small apartment. Obviously I endured a phantom centre in the system and honestly, I wasn't unhappy with it through the years. I got some speare speakers and so I put them side by side in my system and wired them I believe in series parallel The speakers are from TLS, the M4's http://www.theloudspeakerkit.com/lsk-m4-mini-monitor-kit-single/ http://www.dansdata.com/m4kit.htm I'm playing all my media from a HTPC, via HDMI through an nvidia card Windows is configured to output 5.1 channels. I literally sit 7.5' from the speakers, that's ear to speaker cone - pretty damn close. http://imgur.com/KhtAMPs So here's the thing, I'm not sharp with speakers, hifi, home audio. Am I doing something wrong? I'm finding that the voices are simply too quiet. I've used the YAPO thing to adjust the centre channel. Is my amp too weak to drive 2 speakers in series parallel? Can anyone give me some tips? My next step is to actually completely disable the centre channel on the amp, keep using the phantom for a few weeks just to be sure it's not my imagination? It's distinctively voices (centre) which seem to be insufficient. (I've tried setting them to small and large on the amp) Thanks for your time. EDIT: Just FWIW, I don't believe I drive my system excessively loud, quite modest infact. I don't think my hearing is damaged, I just want clear, distinct voices, I get the impression most movies unfortunately seem to send ALL the goddamn sound to the centre and even the fronts are only used sparingly.