My 'when we move' system is ready:

[oldius]

So far so good. It's a brilliant amp IMO but hard to grab a good one, especially the pre. Mine has been fully serviced and recapped too, at great expense, so it's very rare indeed.

[oldius]

The Art1 is back from the re-tippers.

[RochaCullen]

I really love the look of this TT. And the SME you have paired with it looks amazing. Very Jealous. I'm purely going on looks of course, but can you describe its character of sound please?

[oldius]

Very neutral presentation. The plinth is very inert and heavy and lets the deck do its stuff.
The deck was a very expensive design and I guess an equivalent would be 10k new.

[Floyddroid]

I've still got the B&W's Peter. The Yams are a very different speaker, much more analytical but also more suited to smaller spaces. The B&W's fill this space like no other, tremendous things.

Would you recommend a pair of 801?

[Arkless Electronics]

I had a Nak CA7 pre amp in for repair a couple of years ago. It appeared to me that the phono stage board was bought in complete from Threshold as it was of obviously different construction style, PCB materiel etc to the rest of the amp. It was going to cost a few hundred to sort it and the unit was a bit bashed about aesthetics wise so it ended up going back to it's owner without repair.

[Audio Advent]

What is the date of the CA7? Early 80s or later? I have a Threshold SL10 designed by Nelson Pass. This is what it looks like inside:



Is it similar? SL10 is early 80s I think..

[Audio Advent]

The Art1 is back from the re-tippers.

Superb TT! Have you tried other arms on it out of interest? I seem to remember it was better suited to 10" arms from looking at them on the web - is that correct?

[oldius]

The ca7 is a Nelson Pass design for threshold. Nakamichi bought the design and released it without modification. I don't know the year of my particular amp but I believe it to be closer to 88-90. I sold £3600 of phono stage and a £3500 pre in preference for the Nak.

I bought the deck a couple of years ago and was delighted to learn that it was the late, great, Richard Beckinsale's personal turntable. It arrived in a nicotine coated haze but I cleaned it up and it's now possibly the best tts8000 out there; I've not seen a better one anyway. It came with an sme3009ii improved and a v15iii with shure MR stylus. I bought the IV this year to try and it was a huge improvement. I sold all my other decks and this is THE keeper.

[oldius]

The 801 is an incredible speaker but the very early models are much better IMO , when the original, no compromise brief was adhered to. Later models have a top and bottom end exaggeration which I find overwhelming.

When I move I will sell mine but, in this size of space they are sublime.