*** GONE *** Denon PMA-350 with Mission MX-1 pairing & cables £100 LONDON

[Happy Jack]

Major overhaul & upgrade of my music studio means that this hi-fi system is now surplus to requirements. I've had this lot for six years and used it with a laptop for immediate playback and for play-along-with sessions when learning new material.

The speakers are Mission MX-1 in perfect condition:   https://www.whathifi.com/mission/mx1/review

As you can see, I have some home-made isolator risers, carefully and skillfully bodged together over a period of many seconds with a pair of scissors. 

These speakers work best when used with bi-cabling, driving the HF and LF separately. When set up properly they are astonishingly good and carry all the bass you could want.

Naturally this requires a fair amount of ludicrously expensive hi-fi speaker cable. None of yer bell-wire nonsense here.

To make this particular rig work perfectly, you need these bits:

Strictly speaking you don't need these bits but I'll chuck them in anyway.

And to make all this possible, you need an amplifier. I like old-school, and my two favourite amps have always been the NAD and the Denon for this sort of application.

Here we have a Denon PMA-350:

It has all sorts of knobs for you to twiddle.

It has all sorts of sockets for you to stick things into.

And it does bi-cabling. Did I mention the bi-cabling?

It seems ridiculous to be listing all this stuff for a ton, but that's pre-owned electronics for you. 

Everything is in Harrow (NW London) and realistically this isn't stuff that you courier - at this price point the courier becomes a significant on-cost - but I can if you want. At your cost, though.

Happy to drive a sensible distance to meet though.

 

Edited February 20, 2020 by Happy Jack

[Beedster]

Does bi cabling mean the hi/lo are sent to different outputs on each channel Jack, or as that there are two identical outputs per channel?   

[Beedster]

Great ad by the way, I haven’t been to Harrow for a while.......

[Happy Jack]

7 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Does bi cabling mean the hi/lo are sent to different outputs on each channel Jack, or as that there are two identical outputs per channel?   

It's a fine question, since I am unaware of there being a crossover inside the amp. All I can say for sure is that running these speakers with either a single pair of cables or with dual-cabling but the signals reversed results in a very disappointing sound, whereas the second you get the cabling right they sound quite majestic.

Historically my main stereo speakers have always been either Mission 700s (back in the 80s & 90s) or Mission 727s (now). Despite being maybe an eighth of the size, properly-wired MX-1s will get you close to that presence.