Luxman's classic models include the SQ integrated amplifier "an old standby found in almost all the jazz music tearooms in Japan," per the company history on Luxman's websitethe MQ OTL power amplifierand the M, a Wpc power amplifier Enriched by financial success, Luxman changed hands in a series of transactions that culminated, inin the ultimate insult: its purchase by car-stereo hawkers Alpine, who forced the revered high-end brand to compete on the street with the mid-fi hoi polloi. Their research resulted in audio treasures that found favor far outside Japan, and that even challenged Marantz and McIntosh for tube-amp supremacy. Playing those receivers in the store fascinated Hayakawa's shoppers and listeners, and inspired him and his brother and eventual partner, Kinji Yoshikawa, to experiment with circuits of their own design. Not so the ux.One high-end audio manufacturer, resourceful in both tube and solid-state designs, has weathered selloffs, acquisitions, and fickle audiophile demands to create beautiful, enduring audio art under a name synonymous with Japanese high-end audio supremacy: Luxman.įounded in by Tetsuo Hayakawa as part of an Osaka picture-frame business, the Lux Corporation was the first to import to Japan radio receivers from abroad. Not like crisp tubes, if you know what I mean. I owned a A II years ago and found it too rich in sound - like syrupy tubes. I'm struggling to think of what else in the integrated line of amplifiers under, at a guess, 10k that would touch this. Extremely well screwed together, high value count and very well engineered. I picked up one of these: View attachment up for my Harbeth View attachment I suppose I have a few hundred hours up on it now. Andrew Stenhouse New Member Mar 17, Feb 14, 0 0 Sydney, Australia. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Thread starter Andrew Stenhouse Start date Mar 17, JavaScript is disabled. Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Members Registered members Current visitors. Forums New posts Latest activity Search forums.
We accept fate but keep on trying even against all odds. I'm beginning to like Russian cinema, Belly Tigr,from 2012, also had this strange but likable feel. It is a bit unrealistic in it's premises, but so was the fish my neighbour caught the other day. This type of film is a bit more mature, grim but not to the point where it gets unbelievable horror. I like this better than the superhero movies of late. And we dream of one day being meaningful, too. And everyone can feel for them, for there is a little hero in all of us. These heroes are the ones that took a loss too, for their beliefs, their family, their comrades.
In war there is no good side, only losers. Just compare it to some of the American movies where everything is stars and stripes, I always take them with a ton of salt, too. The backstories are ok, and yes there is some propaganda and Russian flagwaving in it. The horror of war lies in its unpredictability, the randomness with which the dead and alive are chosen. I also like it very much when violence is unpredictable. Some solid acting, albeit a bit more Russian than to my liking (you know, though as nails, wrestling a bear kind) the action sequences were spot on. Whilst it was not the Siege at Jadotville per se, it brought a lot of other qualities to the screen.