FM products are rarely reviewed, so when they are its a big deal.
http://highfidelity.pl/@main-639&lang=en
http://highfidelity.pl/@main-639&lang=en
FM products are rarely reviewed, so when they are its a big deal.
http://highfidelity.pl/@main-639&lang=en
Each piece is created at its own pace – there is no production quota to be met. Since the company is small, production is not increased, so the number of units ready for shipment is limited – you have to wait for them for quite a long time, just like for devices produced by Spectral or Phasemation.
The company also has its own unique approach to cables, resulting both from opinions known from the professional market, as well as the company’s own experiences and technical requirements. Let us take power cables as an example – they are permanently attached to FM Acoustics devices and cannot be replaced. The intention is to ensure current flow undisturbed by connectors and plugs, and to make it unnecessary for us to buy them.
It is similar in the case of speaker cables. If we want to buy an FM Acoustics amplifier, we also have to purchase original Forcelines speaker cables.
Instead of carbon potentiometers, the company has again used potentiometers with conductive plastic.
Gee...
129800 Swiss Franc equals
130223.23 US Dollar
I just use the digital outs on a $50 Auvio HD Tuner.
I guess it isn't the best, but, I'm good.
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Oh, forget all that, I thought FM was FM...
As it says below, I'll be back later...
On post #6, yes, I have a 268.
I find the use of any signal level potentiometer as a huge turn off...
Hi Dave_A,
On your post #9, may I refer you to two posts by two friends on their impression on the sound of my system:
1) post #34 in "Mullard88's Main Listening Room"
2) post #14 in "One Amigo Visits South East Asia and Hears Some Amazing Systems"
My own impressions are what I have stated on post #5. I am always curious on how a piece of equipment interacts with other pieces in a system and how the system as a whole sounds like.
As I stated in post #5, this is the first FMA product that caught my attention. To my ears, the other FMA line stages are just not in the league of the 268. I became aware of FMA when more than 30 years ago, Manny Huber visited me to demo his FMA 300 amp on my Acoustat 2+2 speakers. The FMA drove my Acoustat 2+2 with ease but I did not feel involvement with the music at that time. When the 268 was introduced, it was only priced at US$75,000. At that time, I thought it was overpriced. But years and years of listening to it endeared it to me. I should have bought it sooner. By the time I resolved to finally acquire it, the price had gone up to about US$130,000. And this was the only FMA line stage that had a waiting line. My unit stayed with my dealer another 2 years before I finally brought I home. While at my dealer's, I had it connected in series with his 268. This to me was paradise as I appreciate resolution of details. My dealer always teases me on my readiness to order the second 268. As of last night, I have discovered a new and perhaps cheaper way of achieving this extra resolution when friend who is also a member of our forum lent me a pair of 6 feet Master Built Signature speaker cables.
Sam
Hi Dave_A,
Replying to your post #13:
1) What do you mean by providing links to my articles?
2) I'm in the dark on how FMA products are priced in the US. Manuel Huber is a music lover himself and also a very dedicated researcher on how to reproduce music. He told me most of his clients are professionally involved in the music industry. They typically work in recording studios, or setting up the sound system in live concerts, or are the artists themselves. There are very few used units that come into the market as his clients consider his equipment keepers. I totally agree that fine art and quality real estate are better investments. I don't consider audio equipment as a form of investment. This is an expense of the hobby.
3) From what I know, FM equipment, except for the 268 and 1811, are readily available.
I was hosted by Sam two primarily to listen to his stacked quad 57. To say the least, ive finally realised and experienced what a properly set up quad 57 sounds like. If midrange purity, clarity and naturalness is your cup of tea, these are hard to beat. It left me asking what all these new exotic drivers are delivering that has not been achieved in 1957 when I wasn't even born yet!
Of course what I heard was a system and to me the FM acoustics preamp was as natural sounding as I've heard as it clearly brought out the difference between a 47 labs transport/DAC against the Berkley DAC. We were not able to compare the FM preamp with any other but as far as I'm concerned It simply delivered to the power amp and to the quads whatever signal was fed to it, no more no less.
very well then, what would be the reason for that may i ask?
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