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Crazy people out there. A pair of early seventies KEF Cresta speakers selling at £255! Why?
They are nasty sounding little things, the crude crossover does them no favours and they don't even have matching bass drivers.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kef-Cresta...vip=true&rt=nc
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They look horribly cheap to me. I'm not into foo but it always seems wise to make joins and solid as possible. (This was about the plugs and sockets of course)
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He mentioned the magic formula - LS35A - 101s might almost have been worth it but Crestas???? One rather pleased seller I suspect.Originally Posted by walpurgis
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Marco:
Because a lot of people need the fitting to be of the original items. For example if you even mentioned replacing the original Carbon resistors in say a Leak 'TL12.1' for a modern alternative you would have every chance of being sent to hell by an hardcore collector.
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I could certainly use some smaller old style banana plugs of around 3mm diameter. Regular 4mm are too big for one application I have in mind.
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even I wouldn't have bought them
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Yeah, I get that, dude, which is why I wrote what I did in the last part of my post. I totally get the originality thing
However, the ebay sale Andy linked to is just a jumble of 'old bits', not specific to any vintage amp, which is why I said, what's the point?
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Because the Belling Lee silver plated speaker plugs are actually very good and I doubt that there are any modern speaker plugs that are significantly betterWhy would you bother when the best modern examples are so superior (one area where real progress has been made in audio), unless sourcing specific NOS speaker plugs and sockets for a specific make of vintage amp?
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I see...Silver-plated what, though - brass or copper? Anyway, I'll take your word for it that they're good!
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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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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FERROGRAPH...item4d2dccd922
However bear in mind your looking at over £100.00 before you start for part exchanging the Idler Wheels & Pinch Roll..
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