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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2018 17:08:54 GMT
Will be having someone dropping one over next week.
Anyone here tried the Storm 2?
Good, Decent, Sh#t?
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Post by Bigman80 on Oct 11, 2018 17:22:33 GMT
Will be having someone dropping one over next week. Anyone here tried the Storm 2? Good, Decent, Sh#t? S. I saw one finishing on Ebay this morning so I googled it. Seems to be well regarded and is well built internally. If I’d been in the market for an amp, I’d have bid. I remember Kevin Edwards being at Exposures in the late 80s so I’d expect some similar traits.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2018 17:25:42 GMT
It looks like a capable little amp. But time will tell...
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Post by Bigman80 on Oct 11, 2018 17:30:37 GMT
I’d expect a sleeper bargain that is on a par with old and new Exposure ntegrateds.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2018 17:36:56 GMT
Yes. These old Talk amps sell for low money. I guess they don't carry the 'halo effect' that you see with other amps, like Naim/Exposure etc.
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Post by dsjr on Oct 11, 2018 17:52:35 GMT
Kevin was a co-partner in Cable Talk and when there was money in the bank, started Talk Electronics, all but bleeding the parent company dry. The decision was made to split in half, so Cable Talk went its separate way from the electronics side, which fortunately won a nice contract keeping it in business I understand - CT struggled on with sporadic supplies and eventually foundered as Chord Co. took all the Sevenoaks dealers as Black Rhodium took the Audio T's in the south at least, with plenty of stock available at high profit margins to boot. The amps were good clean fun I remember and a dealer I knew did tell me that Kevin had a hand in the similar looking Exposure products of the early noughties (I don't know about before or later than this).
The Talk amp should be huge fun, but I'd use a smooth interconnect or speaker cable Their own current Talk 3 is based on the Cable Talk 4.1 and Excel 4 but made up like the old thinner gauge CT Theatre 2 cable I think (very slightly spaced conductors and outer jacket in green)... A Klotz (Rega Couple type 1) interconnect is recommended, or the CT Reference 2 if you can find one (the Broadcast is too wild and the award winning £50 one of old - Monitor 2 -is too thick and warm).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2018 17:55:23 GMT
Kevin was a co-partner in Cable Talk and when there was money in the bank, started Talk Electronics, all but bleeding the parent company dry. the decision was made to split in half, so cable talk went its separate way from the electronics side, which fortunately won a nice contract keeping it in business I understand. The amps were good clean fun I remember and a dealer I kjnew did tell me that Kevin had a hand in exposure products of the early noughties (I don't know about before or later than this). The Talk amp should be huge fun, but I'd use a smooth interconnect or speaker cable Their own current Talk 3 is based on the Cable Talk 4.1 and Excel 4 but made up like the old thinner gauge CT Theatre 2 cable I think (very slightly spaced conductors and outer jacket in green)... A Klotz (Rega Couple type 1) interconnect is recommended, or the CT Reference 2 if you can find one (the Broadcast is too wild and the award winning £50 one of old - Monitor 2 -is too thick and warm). Is the current Talk 3 green colored? Edit - Sorry just read your post again. Ignore! S.
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Post by dsjr on Oct 11, 2018 17:56:16 GMT
I think so.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2018 18:02:11 GMT
Just did some searching. The newer version of this cable is white.
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Post by dsjr on Oct 11, 2018 18:17:47 GMT
Makes sense I suppose. The old CT Concert 2 was a green hosepipe of a thing, 'SOUNDED' superb in a beefy large diameter cable kind of way, but the southern Sevenoaks dealers were into AV by the early noughties and they were selling QED Micro as a serious speaker cable at the time and who cares about the lost bass and so on... The Sevenoaks in Guildford was more assertive, telling customers the hosepipe cable was a proper serious cable and selling quantities of it as a result.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2018 19:21:42 GMT
Have a strange gut feeling, that the Van Den Hul CS122 will work well with the Storm 2.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 13:10:31 GMT
Have the Storm 2 here. Nice looking amp, very sleek.
One little problem. I'm hearing slight buzz coming through the speakers. Its there constantly, not linked with the volume. Happens on all inputs. Going to leave the Storm run for 24 hours and see if anything changes. The seller has been informed.
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Post by Bigman80 on Oct 19, 2018 20:31:22 GMT
I hope you get to the bottom of the buzz. It looked nice form the pics I saw, I looked on google images at the inside and it looks very well built. Maybe someone more technical can suggest what the buzz is likly to be.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2018 20:58:34 GMT
Going to visit a mate this coming Saturday. He's happy to take a look at it. Could be simple fix. If that's not the case, well the damn thing will get thrown back to the vendor.
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Post by Bigman80 on Oct 19, 2018 21:16:57 GMT
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