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  1. #31
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    Remember Gateway.. turned into Summerfield, who in turn went into Coop i think. Green logos i think
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
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    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

  2. #32
    Join Date: May 2009

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    First system when I was a student was a godawful stereo system, Rank by both name and nature. The first 'proper' system, once I'd moved to London with a proper job and a place of my own, was a BSR turntable left over from the Rank system, with an Empire cartridge, a Goodman's Module 90 tuner/amp, and a pair of Goodman's RB35 speakers. i've got photos of odd bits of the system; the Module 90 here, a corner of the RB35s there, but nothing of the whole system.

  3. #33
    Join Date: Aug 2009

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    Not many students had a hi-fi where I was. One bloke had Goodmans, another Toshiba. The fanciest system anyone had was a Mission/Cyrus with the Mission CD player. He moved to Manchester and immediately got robbed. They took the lot. I thought they'd done him a favour as it was even worse than the Toshiba set up but I never said anything to him.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Not many students had a hi-fi where I was. One bloke had Goodmans, another Toshiba. The fanciest system anyone had was a Mission/Cyrus with the Mission CD player. He moved to Manchester and immediately got robbed. They took the lot. I thought they'd done him a favour as it was even worse than the Toshiba set up but I never said anything to him.
    I vaguely knew someone at university who had an LP12 and Quad electrostatic speakers, but he was a friend of a friend, so I only heard the system a couple of times. I bought my own system with the proceeds of a holiday job with Merseyside Fire Brigade. Not putting out fires, of course.

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    [QUOTE=Joe;841790]I. I bought my own system with the proceeds of a holiday job with Merseyside Fire Brigade. [QUOTE]

    I fiddled the dole, which was the other way of making money on Merseyside at the time. Unlike the government I made sure the taxpayers got value for their money though.

    Ah forgot there were two blokes whose dads were into hi fi so they had their cast offs. Wharfedale and KEF speakers from the 'Seventies. One of them reckoned he had an LP12 but wouldn't bring it with him to college in case it got pinched. They did have pretty good-sounding systems. They were postgrads though so wasn't counting them.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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    Ha!

    Quote Originally Posted by rigger67 View Post
    Wow

    That's freaky.
    I had Solavox and I bought them from Comet and I also bought some QED79 and thought exactly the same thing !

    Add a Pioneer PL-12D and a beefy Technics receiver with a groovy flywheel and you're there
    AC POWER
    Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
    AMPS
    Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
    SPEAKERS
    Wharfedale Evo 4.4
    DAC
    PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
    TURNTABLE
    Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
    PHONOSTAGE
    Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
    DIGITAL
    OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
    MUSIC PLAYBACK
    Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
    Ipad Roon Remote.
    Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
    SPEAKER CABLES
    Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On
    "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
    INTERCONNECTS
    All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Remember Gateway.. turned into Summerfield, who in turn went into Coop i think. Green logos i think
    Think it was Fine Fare before that Grant?
    Hard to forget the naff yellow packaging!
    AC POWER
    Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
    AMPS
    Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
    SPEAKERS
    Wharfedale Evo 4.4
    DAC
    PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
    TURNTABLE
    Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
    PHONOSTAGE
    Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
    DIGITAL
    OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
    MUSIC PLAYBACK
    Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
    Ipad Roon Remote.
    Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
    SPEAKER CABLES
    Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On
    "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
    INTERCONNECTS
    All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    Think it was Fine Fare before that Grant?
    Hard to forget the naff yellow packaging!
    I loved that first aisle in FineFare : you needed sunglasses just to get through it.
    It was a great idea and the forerunner to Tesco's Value range .. plus it appealed to my inner communist
    Linn Sondek LP12, Ittok, AT-F7
    Schiit Mani MK1 Phono Pre-Amp
    Nobsound NS-08P Bluetooth pre-amp
    Marantz CD5004 CD Player
    Pure DAB tuner
    2 x Meridian 205 monoblock power amps
    Tannoy T225 "Mayfair" speakers
    www.paulridgeblog.com

  9. #39
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    Think it was Fine Fare before that Grant?
    Hard to forget the naff yellow packaging!
    Yes, Dee bought it. Finefare was big in its day. Safeway sainsbury tesco etc muscled it( summerfield) out. Coop picked up the pieces, as they do lol. Liptons and Templetons were rebranded as Presto. Presto was owned by Argyll, who bought Safeway uk. Safeway then went too. Think morrisons took them over.
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy S View Post

    Before this set up I (very briefly) had a Finesound Quadraphonic system I bought with my first months salary from Laskys. It had a Garrard 86SB turntable set into a large plinth which also housed the amp, it was the size of a music centre without having the convenience of a tape deck & tuner. Sounded dreadful so got swiftly moved on.

    And before that I had this -


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