Bloody hell that was easy , call yourself a friend of pinkies .

But that means he will have to play lots of music on them. Bad problem to have

Do you notice any difference between the channels?

So which speakers are you taking to France?
They'll be no room left in the house at this rate.

Actually, they are so bloody sensitive, they hiss when you get your ear up close to them - even with my reduced input gain on the Quad, and no gain from the Pip - so there is a current flowing

Allegedly it allows the voice coils to warm up before they suffer active combat playing music. This apparantly extends their life. The dud one I had almost certainly had a broken voice coil, which can't be effectively repaired by soldering - and the only option is a "new for old" trade in. The standard voice coils are aluminium wire. I think the silver wired alternatives are capable of a slightly more effective repair.

Just doin' as I'm told!

Okay DQ, I'm only doing this because I suspect you enjoy it 
The expression 'Different strokes for different folks', does not entail that there are no right or wrong ways of doing things. It simply refers to the fact that different people like different things (in its original use, 'strokes' referred to peoples sexual preferences), which is a truism if ever I heard one, though I agree that it is indeed trite (indeed, truisms are, by definition, trite). This is perfectly consistent with there being better or worse ways of doing things - people may prefer to do things in ways which are suboptimal in all sorts of other respects - so your heart condition case is hardly a counterexample.
Anyway, apologies to everyone for the off-topic post.

Pinch. Your admirable defence bestows upon gus a nuance he doesn't deserve. My pedantry was aimed at the intended meaning of gus' s post which I took to mean their should be less scrutiny of opinion on hifi fora cause it s all about opinionThe success or otherwise of my retort is dependant on the correct interpretation of the meaning of the post as define by him not on the correct entomological meaning. I follow the frankfurt
School of critical theory. Always critique on your interlocutors own terms and meaning.   


P's. Posting on a train after 3 pints. So brief and bored of correcting. 

Inspired suggestion Steadman.

The Lowthers are now the kitchen monitors while I cook the pilaf (not before having to solder the other end (speaker cable terminals) of the internal wiring.  Sheeze!



Being driven by a Nad 3020 with the volume control at less than 1 - loud!

Lovely!

Trouble is Gordon we are looking at a house we love with small rooms.  Is HiFi everything?

These Lowthers really demonstrate the merits of a sensitive speaker though.  In a poor situation, with a poor CD player, they may not be "audiophile perfection" (whatever that is) but they fill the room with rich, warm, live, real music, and the Nad is hardly at 1/20th throttle (20 watt amp!!).  I suspect the bloody thing is in class A!  Really impressed - I think that was my Bromley experience all those years ago.  I will try to hang on to them as a patio set, but Mrs S had a steely look in her eye.

I simply couldn't believe the wiring again.  This guy must have spent at least £1000 to have the cabinets properly made - you can tell that whilst not works of art they are competently made by a man with the right machines.  He spends all that money on the cabinets, and then screws in cheap drivers with self tappers, and loops the cables onto them loose.  The kitchen system has bare wires on the speakers (don't tell the rest of the forum) so I unscrewed the terminals to poke the wire through the hole and one terminal on the Lowther unscrewed internally and I had an ominous "chink" as the nut fell off.  A pig to get the nut out with a hoover, I then find that the cables are again looped through the terminals for the speaker plugs.  Not crimped - loose looped so you can slide them up and down.  They have now been soldered!

But great sounding speakers with a very modest amp.