What are the costs involved in this, or is it all a tad bespoke at the moment?
I don’t know that either?
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Yes, Instagram.
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There are a couple of things I will pick out of Matt’s post above…
I had no expectations when I first went to hear the set-up, Matt kept most of it under his hat. However, I remember saying very early on that I thought that the sound resembled R2R at 15ips.
The system I first heard it in is this…
It has very obvious differences to mine - single driver, no crossover, back loaded horn. Because of this, I thought that once I set it all up at home that it would sound very different. However, now I’ve been playing with it for a couple of months I’d say that although it does sound different, I’d put the differences more down to that in the above system the front end has an early 401 as the tt and it has the other upgrades too, the wood bodied cart, the articulated head shell, the carbon arm tube.
The 401 is more refined, definitely.
The detail and dynamics thing the above does is there in spades in my system but is more upfront because of the 301 motor unit, I think. It is hard to explain but it does seem to do something with the mid and top and I can agree that it is totally non-fatiguing. I have wondered what the arm, cart and phono would do on my Hørning Sati tt but tbh I’m loving the 301 and it is very surprising how it sounds.
On the first day I had it set up here, I stuck on a Temptations album and sat there gob smacked at the vibrancy of the sound, the separation, the for want a better word, ‘slam’. It isn’t the only record I have that sounds like this.
It really doesn’t like some modern records. I bought a Lorde album for my daughter which sounds horrible! But I have the first Lorde record here which sounds great… Go figure!
Like I said above, if anyone wants to come and listen and bring some tunes, you are welcome. 
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Sold! Love the EQ description, though can’t truly understand it.
Neither do I.
Here’s an iphone recording of stage 1 of development (AG 301, ANU cart and x2 magic boxes) Pre Viv Labs tweaked arm / Anu Plinth etc etc
Perhaps because I was there (and my mind is filling in blanks), when I listen to this compressed lossy twaddle I can still hear the layering going on that I just can’t reproduce with the same record (It was mine) in my system.
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Here is an off axis iphone recording done on the day Ritchie first heard the Anu. This is the complete front end with Viv Labs and Ag 401 in the Anu plinth
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A great thing to have some involvement in. Will listen later when back home.
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Yesterday I just had a fan blowing on the Oto but not risking just that today.
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Portable AC units work much more efficiently if you can separate the hot side of the machine (ie the exhaust pipe) from the room you’re trying to cool.
A curtain/sheet in front of the window where the pipe exits is ideal…like this.
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Good idea, I also have used cushions to block the window gap , looks like our units are the same, had it for 15 years and still going strong
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Someone I know is familiar with this system. Let alone his own, he has experience of many high end esoteric setups and also says this has rearranged his expectation of what’s possible.
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Im not fully keeping up as usual.
Is that a hifi dealer’s system or is that someone’s home hif?
More of a record dealer’s system
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Need to see lifters
The Anu has come out of a cost no object obsession. The chap driving this has very close links to hifi dealers but rather like the ‘product’ the approach and sale and market are completely ‘contrary to convention’.
Is it intended to become a commercial venture or will potential purchasers need to be pre-vetted and know the “Anu handshake”.
Here’s the thing with high end is we see the images, we read the reviews, attend shows and yet it’s far from volume selling - It’s whale fishing. For example Kondo, with the brand, shows, dealer network etc etc in reality moved 30ish turntables. The Anu will / is doing rather well by simple word of mouth. It’s pitched at the high end and not for the masses as far as I understand it. My little part in this is the motor unit only. I’m not selling them.