Visiting Hi-Fi Shops is Expensive

My Linn Keilidh speakers were purchased in 1993, a fair few years ago…… They performed excellently for the years I have had them. They have a nice relaxed presentation style letting the music flow from the NAIM pre/power combination that feeds them that’s allows hours of fatigue free listening.

Anyway as per usual I was in the market for a simple set of banana plugs and some speaker cable so I visited my local RICHER SOUNDS outlet in Romford, Essex. They staff know me well in there and assisted me in selecting what I needed. So as with all visit to this small outlet they have limited demo space, so a lot of DEMO action goes on in the actual shop space.

 

The DEMO started of some small bookshelf speakers from KEF the Q150……..the demo played back a tune I was most familiar with, ‘the chain’ by Fleetwood Mac, the second half of the track being the old BBC F1 coverage theme tune……for small bookshelf’s these speakers sounded marvellous, great low end and outstanding sound staging, even with the speakers being not ideally positioned.

Anyway at the end of the DEMO I noticed that the Q150 had a big brother model the Q350…….yeah you can see it coming cant you !

 

The Q350 sounded outstandingly good, the bass extension killed my Linn’s, plus the over all sound was amazingly appealing, the speakers almost disappeared and you were left with a brilliant sound to the music in question. Ten minutes later and £499 pounds (minus my 20% discount) lighter the speakers were on the way back to my flat in the back of my car.

HIGHLY recommended………..