Fanthorpes HiFi - The Week Ahead 3rd - 7th April

Hi everyone, this edition is a little bit early due to the Easter weekend. We’ve got a slightly shorter week ahead with us being closed on Easter Monday, but still a busy week nonetheless.

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.

Hope you enjoy the read…

Tuesday 3^rd April

After being closed on the Bank Holiday Monday we open on Tuesday with a speaker demonstration on the cards. This customer is looking to upgrade his speakers, looking to spend around £1000 to £1500. We’ll have a selection of speakers ready in the demo room, It’s a choice between the Monitor Audio Silver 200, Kef R500 or the Dali Opticon 5.

Wednesday 4^th April

A marathon of a day awaits us on Wednesday. Pinner in Middlesex will be our final destination, but we’ve got to make some stops on the way first. We’ll set off from Hull early and head on out to our first install of the day in Solihull, a customer approached us asking if they could hear the Luxman L-509X amplifier, as they are considering making the switch from a Musical Fidelity Amplifier. Since its on the way (sort of) and we can fit them in. We’ll set up the Luxman amp and leave it with our customer, so he can listen to it alongside his Musical Fidelity amp.

Once the L-509X install is all complete we’ll be heading down the motor way to Wallingford in Oxfordshire this time to install a pair of PMC Twenty5 23 speakers on a Quad Artera stereo power amplifier and matching Artera CD pre amplifier. When this is all set up, we’ve had a listen with our customer and they’re happy we’ll head down to our final job of the day in Pinner, Middlesex.

Lastly, we have a PMC cor amplifier to install, we’ll also be picking up this customers trade in, which consists of a Quad Elite Pre and Power Amplifier.

Thursday 5^th April

We’ll set off from a local hotel on Thursday, but before we head off back to Hull we’ve got one more job to do, this time in Cheltenham. We’ll be installing a Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 800 amplifier and matching Nu-Vista CD Player, speaker wise our customer has opted for a real store favourite the PMC Fact 12. We’re sure this customer will love his new system.

Friday 6^th April

A short trip across to Rotherham is booked in for Friday, this customer is part exchanging their Arcam AVR400 receiver against the flagship AV Receiver from Arcam the AVR850. This receiver requires a full DIRAC set up, which is a service we are happy to offer. 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.

Saturday 7^th April

We wrap the week up with an install and two in store demonstrations. Our install is over in Crewe were our customer is part exchanging a Parasound A23 power amplifier and P5 Pre amplifier, we are also part exchanging a Beyerdynamic A1 headphone amp. All of this will be traded in against a vintage looking Luxman LX-380 integrated amplifier that retails for £5999.

As mentioned above we also have two demonstrations to set up, first up we have a chap wanting to listen to the Spendor A4 Speakers, he is bringing in his own Arcam amplification. In the afternoon we have a Roksan Blak demonstration, this customer wants to listen to both the Blak Amplifier and the matching Blak CD Player on a pair of PMC Twenty5 23 speakers.

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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