{"id":1376,"date":"2015-08-30T09:31:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T09:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkman-archive.com\/wa\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2015-09-01T08:20:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T08:20:48","slug":"onkyo-liverpool-a-great-hi-fi-in-a-small-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkman-archive.com\/wa\/2015\/08\/onkyo-liverpool-a-great-hi-fi-in-a-small-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"ONKYO Liverpool, a great HI-FI in a small factor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I was a teen I loved small HI-Fis. As many other teens, money didn’t let me go as far as to have a boombox (an excellent one<\/a>, though). But I kept dreaming…<\/p>\n

There are lots of choices if you search for a standard factor equipment, but very very few if you look for mini-sized ones. I’ve looked to all options in the best\u00a0mini-combos from\u00a0almost all brands: SONY, AIWA, PIONEER, KENWOOD, Technics.<\/p>\n

The chance of a mini combo, like all those AIWAs full of lights and colors, was already discarded many years ago. Not only because they use integrated components, proprietary cables and a lot of plastic, but also because I don’t want an HI-FI that\u00a0seems\u00a0a discoteque or a spaceship. I simply don’t like them. I wanted something with an elegant design, well built and, more important, with excellent audio quality.<\/p>\n

Some were pretty good (like top-end AIWA,\u00a0SONY or Technics) but\u00a0I finally went for an ONKYO LS-A5, back in 1997. It had separate modules but, sadly, interconnected with a proprietary cable.\u00a0It was clearly better than the vast majority of those mini combos, the build quality was much better (100% metal, no plastic) and internally it uses discrete components, not integrated ones.<\/p>\n\n\t