But, guys, it revels in Rhythm; it's got PRAT-a-plenty and Boogie-Woogie by the bucketful... What price can you put on that?
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But, guys, it revels in Rhythm; it's got PRAT-a-plenty and Boogie-Woogie by the bucketful... What price can you put on that?
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Marco
Come come now ' how can you diss the poor old linn
£14,000 for the finest record player the world has known ' its a snip .
i would willing sell my house and all its contents to help linn.
seriously though i think its much easier to judge a deck having owned several types over the years myself a linn/voyd/roksan/logic and now the 1210,
for a younger person trying to get into vinyl it must seem confusing .
Chris
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It must be difficult for them since all the fund managers lost their jobs and the government stopped all the bonuses for the few of 'em still in work. A whip-round may be in orderOriginally Posted by chris@panteg
PRAT... £10k ...
Rhythm... £4,700 ...
Boogie Woogie by the Bucketload ... Priceless
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For even crazier costs check out
http://www.oswaldsmillaudio.com/Prod...urntables.html
They no longer quote price U guess if you have to ask you cannot afford
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It's good to see you don't need to spend extra on a spirit level though!
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Quality, mate!PRAT... £10k ...
Rhythm... £4,700 ...
Boogie Woogie by the Bucketload ... Priceless
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Them were the days when audio such as Linn was bought by 25 year old garage mechanics (!!!?) living at home with Mum and having £500 upgrade money to spend. they were mostly around my age.
25 years or so along the way and these 25 year olds are now in their 50's. Many of them became Dad's and mortagees and can't afford what Linn are doing now. A very few still have very well paid jobs and stayed single. Those very few can still afford Linn and Naim gear at the grossly inflated prices they now ask and there are still a handful of arrogant, blinkered dealers around to service them (I can think of three or four straight off broadly in the London/M4 corridor area).
How long Linn can carry on with this is anyone's guess. Naim too... Both companies are trading on past glories I think.
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Love what you wrote Nick but what were you doing up at 4.49am ?
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