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Lol - they're a mixture of downloads and rips of some of my CD and vinyl collection, as I like to compare identical recordings on different formats, which is rather useful, for example, when doing 'vinyl vs. digital' comparisonsOriginally Posted by Tim
Here's the 'streaming station' (with two NAS drives combining to provide 8TB of choons).... Should keep me going for a bit
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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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I'm Grant.
If your taking orders id have a few ... Maybe if you got enough folk interested we could get a job lotI'm currently wrestling with a similar problem, and came across these on Ebay.
( full link here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1118045787...xe=exe,ext=ext )
They look nicely made, and they're strong enough to be stacked up to make a unit big enough for most collections, with the system on top or within.
I enquired about bespoke sizes; they can do a box with internal dimensions of 400mm wide by 350mm high by 350mm deep, which would hold around about ninety albums, for about £10.25 each including VAT, plus delivery. The only problem is that they have a minimum order of 100! Sound a lot, but if you call it £1100 all in, its probably about the same as having a bespoke piece of furniture built. For your purposes, I guess you'd need about ten, so put the other ninety on Ebay and make yourself a tidy profit. Similar boxes sell individually for up to £35 ( http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vinyl-LP-1...UAAOSwHaBWim2T )
While you're at it, put me down for four of them!
I'd do it myself, but I don't have the capital or the space at the moment
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Due to an imminent house move and lack of finance I'm not in a position to do so, but if anyone wants to take it on I'd have thought they should be able to double their money. I'd be happy to forward the correspondence I've had so far.
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I'm Jason.
We've just got one of these for storage purposes - and they happen to fit LPs perfectly, not that we're using it for that...
http://www.morplan.com/shop/en/morpl...shelving-units
They also do a 'gondola' which might be perfect for LPs...
http://www.morplan.com/shop/en/morpl...itage-gondolas
They're well built, rough finished (shabby chic) but quite nice. Good price too.
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I'm Sam.
+ 1 from me. But.... can he actually reach those records??Oh that's a cunning bit of storage in the top of the stairwell, illuminated as well
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I'm Richard.
No problem. Even my wife can reach them. Just don't lean forward!
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We put in some Vitsoe shelves recently, and we really really like them. For vinyl storage they say you have to use the shorter of the two shelf lengths, which is about 660mm each, so a double bay like ours would fit perfectly into your space. You can also put your hifi on there, and then have smaller shelves above for the CDs. I did a rough count and figure one of those shelves holds about 200 records. See the photo of our set up below - just LPs and books, but if you look at the link below you can see it can look fantastic with hi-fi on it as well.
A big bonus is that it is totally modular, so you can add shelves as you find that you need them. Also high WAF, at least with my W.
It is not as expensive as you might think. We had some other shelves custom made by a local chippy in MDF, and after painting them etc etc it worked out a lot more expensive than this, and the shelves bow slightly and that;s just under the weight of paperback books.
I cannot recommend them enough.
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Love the spirit level, very scientific 😉
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That actually came free with the shelves! It is the exact width of the shelf units, and has little nubs on the end that fit into the rails so you can make sure that you put them up dead straight and the right width without having to fanny about. It is a really lovely bit of design.
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