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  1. #331
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    I like to hoard Some of this stuff is better than an ISA for investment purposes. (Well maybe the turntable collection and the Krell).

    It will get sorted at some point. Might have that put on my headstone I think.
    aye those technics cdps are worth money if fixed. as will be your dulci too. TT's continue to increase in price(decent ones) so its a wee blankey for old age martin; doubt it,ll get u a holiday home in the Algarve though.
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  2. #332
    Join Date: Aug 2009

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Lol, no worries... Btw, I spoke to Anthony about your Techy CDPs, and he said he'd fix them for you no worries. So maybe next time I'm down at your place I could take them away and get them done for you?

    Marco.
    That would be smashing. I won't be selling them in a month of Sundays. It took me a long time to acclimatise back to ordinary cd players.
    Current Lash Up:

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

  3. #333
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    Ok, that's a done deal then

    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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  4. #334
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    Reminds me - must pick up my SL-P1200. Recently repaired and serviced and now only missing feet and, bizarrely, the 'Play' button.
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  5. #335
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    Are you familiar with them Adam? Do you have the broadcast variant or the standard model?
    Current Lash Up:

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

  6. #336
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    Have to say that since replacing the Chord speaker cable this current incarnation of the lash up is really hitting the spot now. Still need to spend some more time on speaker placement, but the sound quality is spot on, has that 'rightness' to it that is hard to define in words but you know it when you hear it. The harmonics or whatever, the way the notes ring out, last time I heard that was at a NEBO with a Radford STA 25 into the original Edingdale speakers, think Marco's Croft was doing pre amp duties. Source was vinyl but even so, 'you instinctively know when something Is right' as they used to say on the commercial.

    I really could stop right here after 30 years of box swapping. Being me I won't of course.

    Anyways, if you are pondering new power amplification, try and track down one of these Krells. They are blindingly good.
    Current Lash Up:

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

  7. #337
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    ...last time I heard that was at a NEBO with a Radford STA 25 into the original Edingdale speakers, think Marco's Croft was doing pre amp duties.
    Indeed it was. That was a lovely sound, in conjunction with the Radford. I know *exactly* what you mean about 'rightness', as that's how it is here. I'm pretty much there now with my system, which is why I post much less these days about hi-fi.

    I've never really 'got' the box-swapping thing, other than how Jerry does it (although that still wouldn't be for me), as it tends to suggest one has more interest in equipment than music, and for me the equipment always was a means to an end. Now that that end has pretty much been reached, I'm spending my money on music, or rather I should say, vinyl (records).

    We're going into Shrewsbury tomorrow, so no doubt I'll come back with some more fuzzies!

    I'd like to come down soon to hear your Krell. Would be interesting to bring the Croft with me and see how that sounds along with it

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    Are you familiar with them Adam? Do you have the broadcast variant or the standard model?
    Yes, very familiar with them - this is my third. This one and the first were standard types and the second one was the broadcast version, however, that was beyond repair, sadly. Very nice machines with great sound and a joy to use, too!

    Of course, the one I really want is the SL-P50 (VU meters!!), but I don't know of anyone, anywhere who's ever seen one, let alone owned one - http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-P50.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    I'd like to come down soon to hear your Krell. Would be interesting to bring the Croft with me and see how that sounds along with it

    Marco.
    Yep we'll do that when he weather gets warmer. Brass monkeys here at the mo. We can go to Rubber Soul, he's in the new much bigger shop now.
    Current Lash Up:

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by Beobloke View Post
    Yes, very familiar with them - this is my third. This one and the first were standard types and the second one was the broadcast version, however, that was beyond repair, sadly. Very nice machines with great sound and a joy to use, too!

    Of course, the one I really want is the SL-P50 (VU meters!!), but I don't know of anyone, anywhere who's ever seen one, let alone owned one - http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SL-P50.html
    Did you think there was a difference between the standard and the broadcast? I thought so but I got the standard one a while after the broadcast died, so I could never do a proper comparison.
    Current Lash Up:

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

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