I’ve heard all kinds of Dynaudio, standmounts and the big skinny monolith floorstanders. My lasting impressions are that they all sound like they’re trying too hard. The overall presentation sounds ‘punchy’ and a bit forced to my ears - ymmv.
Agree with this
Very HiFi.
Sound great on first impressions but I found them fatiguing in the long term
Had a pair of (from memory) Contour S 1.4 stand mounts, (many years ago), had some real bass issues with them in my room at the time.
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I had a pair of the Contour Legacy here recently;
They were absolutely bloody lovely and I’d have given them houseroom in a hearbeat. Sadly, the decision to only make 1,000 pairs means they’re basically unobtanium.
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Makes you wonder why they would bother getting them reviewed?
There are a small number of reviews. It’s like when the car mags look at the latest limited run Porsche or the watch blogs get excited about a model that has gone to the chosen few already. It works for brand clout over and above selling the device itself.
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The crazy thing to my dated mind is that furniture like this is cheap-as-chips nowadays, as all ‘brownwood’ is deeply unfashionable.
It’s likeliest Dutch and early C20th, as they had a mania for what we’d call Jacobean style carved smoked oak in the 1930s thru 50s. Knew a chap who was importing it into the UK by the pantechnicon-load back in the 1990s once the Dutch were unloading all of their grandparents huge, heavy, sombre furniture. Occasionally some genuinely old pieces would come home amongst it - wish I’d had room for those back then!
It was also in style in the 1880s and 90s in this cuntry. This is what the TT lives on when the room isn’t waiting on builders &c -
Dated 1893, the carving is stunning aside from the bits that my mate’s parent’s parrot chewed-off! Being British and Victorian, it’s well thought-out too - there’s a lead bottle-cooler in a drawer inside, and the whole thing breaks down into two comparatively manageable bits! It was going to be burned if I didn’t have it!
The carving’s the tell usually - it’s generally too good and too crisp to be properly old.
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The real thing is still expensive.
i remember about 20 years ago a charity I worked for had a really ornately carved 18thC oak sideboard donated.
We sold it in our poshest charity shop in Brighton and stuck a price on it of £1250 but would have been happy with £1000.
It was bought the same day by an antique dealer in Lewes.
I had the pleasure of delivering it and it was bloody heavy
He had cleared a space in his window and we put it straight in there.
Before we were out the door he put a ticket on it for £3500
I have been googling images trying to find something that looked like to no avail. it was darker than your pic, heavily ornate with no flat relief, almost black and flat fronted.
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As with all things, Quality sells 
Taht said, C18th would be rare to say the least, because this sort of style was very much out of vogue; more likely C17th - that, and older, still has a market and likely always will, it’s rather lovely.
FWLIM, mine is way darker than the overexposed photo makes it look.
Could well have been 17C the dealer certainly knew what he was looking at !
Bought a Sugden A21a2 but it just doesn’t work with the fabers. Have had a few in the past and the bass was never the fastest but these sound like they are inside a wooden box.
Chucked the Aleph 2s in and 100 watts of lovely (hot) class A seem to be doing the business 
Have got them stacked at the moment so dread to think how hot they will get (have ordered a small desk fan to give them some ventilation)
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Why?! Disenderp them before you melt yer carpet ya biffer.
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er, heat rises, if anything the top amp will get hotter, the bottom of those amps doesn’t get hot.
I had them sat (individually) on the carpet in the last place for a couple of years.
Classic Fabers really look great in that room
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While digging around the shed for the Audio Analogue Maestro for my mate I came across my old Denon DVD-2900 beast of a DVD player. Of course it was so much more than a DVD player, a decent CDP and also plays SACD and DVD-A discs so while I was getting the CDP cleaned up I thought I would hook this up and give it a spin - currently plugged in to the Lake People G109 and the Beyer DT 1990 PRO, it sounds excellent, shame the SACD discs I own from way back are all a little Audiophile winky wanky.
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Pretty much why the format never really got off the ground.
Those Denon DVDPs are terrific machines.
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“I’d prefer you to do the wooing before you do the winkie and the wanky.”
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An acquaintance has one of those and “collects” the wanky audiophile SACDs.
He means well but his demos are a bit painful 
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I think I bought the player and was so desperate to hear what SACD was all about I just went a bit silly, I mean I really like classical, but listening to a fella highlighting the different violins of Italy. Really? I think I had too much disposable money at the time.
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I have an Sacd player,but no sacds
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….talking of cheap DACs,I’ve just started using a cheap smsl one,system sounds really good with it in place.
Keep thinking should I sell some records that I never play to get a better digital set up over the squeezebox,but have no idea how much id have to spend to get a worthwhile upgrade