Fanthorpes HiFi - The Week Ahead 20th - 25th August

Hey everyone, this blog post takes us over the half way point in August! Where is this year going? As always, we’ve got another busy week ahead with plenty of stuff to talk about. We’ve got installs and home demonstrations on the cards, plus some possible news on an up coming in store event….

The idea is to give you an insight into our working week here at Fanthorpes HiFi. With what demonstrations we are doing in store and in customers’ homes, services we offer, as well as give you an insight into the distances we travel over a working week.

If we’re in your area and want to listen to something, let us know and to see if we can pop round and see you.

Hope you enjoy the read…

Monday 20^th August

We kick things off with an instore demo. This customer already owns a Leema Tucana Anniversary Integrated Amplifier, Chord Hugo TT DAC and an Innuos Zenith streamer and is looking to upgrade his speakers. We’ll have a few options to run through on the day including the Dali Epicon 2, PMC Twenty5 24 and the Martin Logan Electromotion ESL X Speakers.

Tuesday 21^st August

Another in store demonstration is booked in for Tuesday. This customer is looking to purchase a whole new system tailored around vinyl.

With that in mind we will have several options ready to listen to, turntable wise the Project Xtension 10 will be set up alongside the AVID DIVA II SP. For the Integrated amplifier options, we will have the Sugden A21SE Signature next to the Roksan Blak, and for the speakers we will have the Spendor A7 and the PMC Twenty5 23 ready and waiting. The system will be connected using Chord Epic cables throughout.

Wednesday 22^nd August

We're heading north of the boarder up to Taynuilt in Scotland on Wednesday to install a pair of speakers for a customer. They have opted for the PMC Twenty5 23 floorstanders and are trading in their old PMC GB1i.

Thursday 23^rd August

A midweek trip across to Barnsley West Yorkshire is on the cards. This customer is interested in purchasing an Arcam AVR550, so we are taking out one to him for a home audition. This receiver requires a full DIRAC set up. The overall aim on a Dirac install is to reach the situation where all speakers are working together to create a `sound field` around you, correctly recreating the movies sound effects while not making themselves noticeable.

Our fully trained installer can use DIRAC to allow this using a high quality specially calibrated microphone and the intelligent room analysis software linked to the new range of Arcam receivers. Full frequency sounds are passed into each speaker one at a time, in up to 9 positions in your room which are then picked up by the microphone and loaded into the software.

This creates accurate waveform graphs of your own rooms actual effect on your systems sound output. By using the DIRAC software, we can adjust these waveforms to more closely match the original movies own soundtrack.

The overall effect of this provides a clean, detailed sound where no one speaker is directly noticeable, and your attention is focused only on the movie.

Friday 24^th August

On Friday we have a local customer who is upgrading their AV Receiver and has opted for the Arcam AVR550. Again, this receiver requires a full DIRAC set up, which our installer will take care of. Making sure the customer gets the best performance out of their new Arcam AV Receiver.

We are also expecting a visit off Kieran from Henley Audio. We’ll make sure the we have a mug of the finest Yorkshire tea ready! It’s always great to see members of the industry pop in, it allows us to turn our focus to a particular brand serving as a nice refresher course and to possibly learn about any new products on the horizon.

Plus, we will be discussing details about an in store event we are running with Henley Audio very soon (hint.... If turntables are you're thing, this is the event for you), so make sure to keep an eye on our Blog for updates!

Saturday 25^th August

A trip across the M62 is on the cards to finish the week. We’re heading over to Wigan to install a Luxaman L-507UX ii Integrated Amplifier. Once the customers new amplifier is installed and our customer is happy we are bringing back a Leema Tucana II amplifier, Naim CD5 XS, NAIM HI-CAP and Rothwell Rialto MM/MC Phono Stage in part exchange.

Hope you enjoyed the read. Fanthorpes HiFi.

If you have any questions about the equipment mentioned or services offered in this post, please call us on 01482 223096 or email shop@fanthorpes.co.uk

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