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A vintage receiver and a decent pair of vintage Brit speakers would sound great!
Something like this Trio maybe https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kenwood-T...oAAOSwYxBaS6pY
£50. Cor, lovely ...
And maybe these £50 Wharfedale Dentons?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wharfedal....c100005.m1851
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Tasty looking Trio, but Dentons? That's left-field even for you. You want it to sound vintage as well as look vintage I guess?
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Hmm. Trio, fine. Dentons pretty grim...............and fifty nicker? Take the '0' off the end and call it a fiver and I still wouldn't want them. Crude top, no bottom and thick mid. But other than that they're just fine.
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Well, OK - just trying to show the OP that not everyone here is like the hifi dealer you tell your budget limit to and he immediately starts offering you gear at 2 or 3 times or more the price.
OK, not Dentons, then.
How about a pair of Celestion DL4 for £45 or so?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pair-Cele...AAAOSwJWFaYdyq
Or maybe these Mordaunt Short will end up within budget ...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mordaunt-...IAAOSwFLBaU6CW
Anyway, I think the point is that a pretty decent, suitable and nice looking system can easily be had without stretching the budget beyond recognition.
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Indeed, as the AoS 'cheap as chips' systems, demonstrated at Scalford a few years back, ably proved! Remember those, and the impact they made?
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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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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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At one point I had some old stuff around and wanted to have a streaming system in a spare room. To make the connection I got one of these bluetooth receivers (paired with an ipad and streaming from my NAS/server). I already had a 3.5mm to RCA lead like this. Less than a tenner to make the jump from 70s vintage stuff to 21c digital streaming. Sounded b***** fantastic.
Current: [P20] Roon/Tidal > Custom PC> Chevron Paradox NDF16 > Phast Pre > Neuro. 686 > Tannoy Berkley (RFC tweaks)
There were a set of B&W DM2 speakers in the classifieds for £100....excellent and although a bit larger, could do bedroom duty....maybe too big for what you want though!
Location: London/Kent, UK
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I'm keith.
Yea that trio is more what im looking at. There seems to be plenty around of the 70s type of gear for 50-75 pound which would leave the rest for some speakers.
Keith, if a pair of vgc Kef Chorale III speakers of any interest feel free to PM me.
Current: [P20] Roon/Tidal > Custom PC> Chevron Paradox NDF16 > Phast Pre > Neuro. 686 > Tannoy Berkley (RFC tweaks)