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Location: Glasgow
Posts: 1,049
I'm Paul.
Your best vintage score?
For my part, I felt really lucky to find my Kenwood Model 500 amp listed on Glasgow gumtree. The Kenwood Supreme series are really rare in this country.
I am green with envy of this chap in Belgium!
He just found the ultimate NOS Supremes in local hifi shop: Kenwood 700C pre and 700M power amps. Simply stunning.
What's your best vintage find? And please post a pic if you have one.
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Location: Bournemouth
Posts: 5,274
I'm Dan.
Lots Via gumtree but the best is my Audio Note ANJ/D Speakers
[B] Receiver[/B\]
Yamaha CR 2020
Turntable
KAM DDX 1000 with Stanton 500 MKII Cartridge
CD Transport & DAC & PSU
Marantz 6005 , Beresford Caiman , Paul Hynes SR4
Loudspeakers
JPW Kit with Audax , Peerless and VOLT B250's
Speaker Cable , Digital Coax , Interconnects
QED Speaker Cable , Chord Coax Digital , Nakamichi Interconnect , Belkin Interconnect
Senior Member
Location: South downs
Posts: 3,477
I'm James.
Hmm best vintage score ?
Probably the NOS Goodmans Triaxiom drivers I picked up the other day for £60. Others that spring to mind are mint AR4x speakers for £5 & Thorens TD150II for £25.
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Location: Newcastle UK
Posts: 3,745
I'm Rich.
A flawless pair of Celstion Ditton 15s from a local recycling centre for a tenner!
One of these days... I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
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Location: N E Kent
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I'm Geoff.
Best vintage score? Well there's this older lady I met and............. Oh! Sorry. I didn't realise you were talking about Hi-Fi.
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Location: Dagenham Essex
Posts: 11,215
I'm Allen.
Cor yes , blue rinse and false teetheOriginally Posted by walpurgis
Best vintage score? Well there's this older lady I met and............. Oh! Sorry. I didn't realise you were talking about Hi-Fi.
Oh , Er everything I have is old or old school , Quality
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Senior Member
Location: The Black Country
Posts: 6,089
I'm Alan.
I think my best, particularly considering it was only 10€, was the NEC brute:
I've since put 4mm speaker terminals and an IEC mains inlet and outlet connector on it. Oh and a remote volume control
Alan
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Yesh, Geoffers likes his gumsy gobbles!Best vintage score? Well there's this older lady I met and............. Oh! Sorry. I didn't realise you were talking about Hi-Fi.
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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Location: Surrey
Posts: 7,109
I'm Rob.
Heybrook HB3 Mk2 which I got to just in time as they were off to the dump the next day! Had been left out in the rain, but thankfully not for long. Look nice don't they
Keep watching for the stunning reveal coming soon to a forum near you
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Location: gone
Posts: 11,519
I'm gone.
Hmm.
I think for me it has to be a random eBay purchase of some JBL L110 Monitors.
Amazingly good for £100 or so.
Seemingly unlimited musical enthusiasm and joie de vivre, but they justified their "Monitor" name, too, with fine neutrality. The mids really were bloody good!
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