Shit!!!!
Alan kindly invited me to this and I totally forgot all about it, damn!!
Sounds like a good day was had by all, great write up lads
Gutted I missed it
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I'm Neil.
Shit!!!!
Alan kindly invited me to this and I totally forgot all about it, damn!!
Sounds like a good day was had by all, great write up lads
Gutted I missed it
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Excellent write-up (and pics), guys. Always good putting faces to forum names and growing the AoS community. Glad you had a good time and learned some new stuff too, which for me is what these meets are all about - that and discovering new music!
When I was building my current system and 'voicing' the Croft, for example, I'd often have to modify it further (as Alan has just done with his KIN) after someone had visited and had let me hear something that I considered exposed a weak area in it.
However, that's the advantage of having others round with good kit (and ears) because you can end up advancing the sound of your own equipment (and system), as a result, which is why it's always good to test your kit against as much other stuff as possible, and go and hear other people's systems, as it all acts as a valuable learning curve, which ultimately YOU will gain from.
Anyway, I hope to be at the next get together, should Alan wish to expose his home to more reprobates in future lol, when I will bring my Croft down for perhaps some useful comparison purposes. It would be good to meet Oliver too, and other forum members, such as Mick and Neil, from that part of the country.
Onwards and upwards, chaps!
Marco.
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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.
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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.
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I'm tony.
Great write up. Lots of really nice kit and as Marco said its great to see folk from the forum meeting up and having some fun.
We are blessed in Scotland with the ever growing number of the Scottish mafia.
We have made some great friendships-and discovered some fantastic music along the way.
There's a few new midlands/Staffordshire member signing up. Hopefully, we can get a regular meet together.Originally Posted by wee tee cee
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