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  • No not interested sorry.

    9 24.32%
  • Yes I am interested

    20 54.05%
  • Yes I will attend and fit this in regardless

    4 10.81%
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Thread: AOS Show , Members opinions please , includes a Poll

  1. #21
    Join Date: Jan 2008

    Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sovereign View Post
    Sorry chaps, a wee typo there
    James is always 'up for it', eh mate?

    Marco.
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  2. #22
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Wood View Post
    I don't know if this is any help or not, but in the past I've part organised a DJ meet up/ speaker demo, basically we hire a function room and we all bring our DJ systems to compare.

    The venue we use is called the Charnwood Arms in Coalville, near Leicester.

    The main reason for choosing this venue is because its about as central as you can get, plus good motorway access.

    Also the venue has an on site Motel as well as the function room, so it works well.

    Lots of us stay over and drive back the next day.

    Rooms are cheap and really nice, food and beer is good too

    Just a thought anyway..





    http://www.booking.com/hotel/gb/the-...=total;ucfs=1&
    Excellent suggestion, Jeff! I also know of Coalville, as I bought my car from this dealership: http://www.adcarsalesuk.co.uk/

    I also agree that if any AoS-branded show were to happen, that's the area of the country I'd be looking at - either that or somewhere around Birmingham

    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.


    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

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  3. #23
    Join Date: Jan 2013

    Location: Bristol

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    Still think it needs to be a good 2 or really 3 hours away from Scalford. You'll get the same crowd and piss off the Wammers if you put it in Brum or Leicester.

  4. #24
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    It's moot anyway, as the show is unlikely to happen. If that situation changes, then we can look at possible locations more seriously

    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.


    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

    Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!


  5. #25
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    I have voted no, as I don't go to any other shows due to the distances and costs involved.
    Kevin

    Too busy enjoying the music....

    European loan coordinator for Graham Slee HiFi system components..

  6. #26
    Join Date: Jan 2013

    Location: Bristol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    It's moot anyway, as the show is unlikely to happen. If that situation changes, then we can look at possible locations more seriously

    Marco.
    I agree. Or...

    Have a virtual show. Just post videos of yer system on YouTube with a thread here as the hub...

  7. #27
    Audio Al is offline Pishanto Specialist & Super-Daftee
    Join Date: May 2012

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    Early day yet but 19 willing members , See what happens later in the week

    My thoughts on this would be a venue with rooms for over night accommodation , arrive Saturday , book in , meal , meet and greet , few beers and a chat , If the venue has a medium conference room each member would be allocated a time slot for setting up and running their system, then all change onto the next members system etc

    Central location should please everyone , very early days yet and 19 people may not work , Time will tell
    These are just my thoughts

    If we end u with 70 members maybe a room based show like WW
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  8. #28
    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    Quote Originally Posted by User211 View Post
    Have a virtual show. Just post videos of yer system on YouTube with a thread here as the hub...
    You can do that here anytime though.

    I find videos of Hi-Fi largely uninteresting personally. They give you no real idea of how the equipment sounds.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

  9. #29
    Join Date: Jan 2013

    Location: Carlisle - UK

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    Quote Originally Posted by User211 View Post
    Still think it needs to be a good 2 or really 3 hours away from Scalford. You'll get the same crowd and piss off the Wammers if you put it in Brum or Leicester.
    Wammers are from all round the country, as long as its not at that venue I don't see a problem. keep a few months away from that show slot and I don't see that we would be stepping on anyone's toes. The Wam show is early in the year so plenty of the calender to go at, there is room for more than one show, as is the case with the Trade Shows.

    In the absence of anything else I will probably be showing at the next Wigwam show myself. Like many members here, I dip in and out of several forums. I post mostly on AoS but take an interest in what others are doing, both in this country and further afield, there is too much talk in both camps, as though its us or them. I acknowledge there is an element of that, but why add to it, I'm not having a go at you personally here User211. You will get some peoples backs up whatever you do, even if you do nothing.

    As for locating South of London, that would make it very difficult for the Scottish Mafia or the North East Posse to attend, as it would require at least 2 nights accommodation and two days just travelling, even for a one day show.

    As has been pointed out, something of this scale takes a huge amount of organising.
    Maybe smaller regional meets along the lines of NEBO and MiBO are the way forward.

  10. #30
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    You can do that here anytime though.

    I find videos of Hi-Fi largely uninteresting personally. They give you no real idea of how the equipment sounds.
    I wasn't being wholly serious.

    I like a hi-fi vid spend ages on YouTube me.

    I'd raise the thread but I bet no one would post. Too shy, worried about comments on sonics etc.

    Given a decent mic and play back on a good system I think you can get an idea. Try the Kenrick Sound videos - they are shot seriously, and they do display meaningful variance in sonics across speakers.

    Anything else though on YouTube, without the same hardware doing the shooting, you're a bit clueless. Most sound pretty dire.

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