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[Floyddroid]

G'day mate.

[ALF]

Hello Anthony. Welcome to AOS.

That's an interesting selection of equipment there. Altecs are a favourite of mine.

Tell us what future plans you may have for your Hi-Fi system. I assume a phono stage features?

Feel free to join in the chat. Everybody is friendly.


Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.

A phono stage is on the cards, but I'm stalling
... the prevarication is for two reasons - first, at the end of year one of retirement I have spent my budget for 2017;
and second, I'm not sure which direction I should take.
It might not sound strictly proper to purists, but I'd like a remote control (volume). I'm getting too old (lazy) to jump up and down to twiddle the knob on the amp, and the danger of spilling my glass of health juice is increased by leaving my seat for manual audio attenuation.
So - rather than a stand alone phono stage, I'm fantasising about a nice new preamp with remote, dac, phono all in one ... Rotel and NAD make nice looking units, but such things are out of my field of experience - I've always driven manual when it comes to audio.
Any kind(ish) words of wisdom will be welcome.

[ALF]

G'day mate.

Bewdie - G'day!

[Andy831]

A phono stage is on the cards, but I'm stalling
... I'm getting too old (lazy) to jump up and down to twiddle the knob on the amp, and the danger of spilling my glass of health juice is increased by leaving my seat for manual audio attenuation.

But you have to jump up every 20 minutes to turn the record over

[ALF]

But you have to jump up every 20 minutes to turn the record over

You can't get the staff these days, y'know ...