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    Quote Originally Posted by REXTON View Post
    A lot! But it's probably your final amp destination, certainly will be for me when mine arrives.




    In case anyone was wondering, the amp has been power coated Slate Grey which of course wasn't a standard Radford colour, but works nicely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Radford Revival View Post




    In case anyone was wondering, the amp has been power coated Slate Grey which of course wasn't a standard Radford colour, but works nicely.
    Yes the colour decision was challenging. The original grey is a bit unexciting ... Will offered me the choice of any RAL colour so I bought a swatch and swithered between Mad Scientist's Laboratory Green, assorted coppery / orangey colours, various silvers/champagnes and even lipstick red. All this in flat, metallic or even two-tone with the lid being darker or lighter depending.

    Sent me quietly mental for weeks before I settled on a mid-grey sort of colour, neither a dark grey/ shiny near black nor the original flat grey, but something more neutral but still a bit stronger than the original colour, I'm pretty happy with the pics so far it seems to have worked out.

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    Hmm. Purple 'metalflake' with orange highlights could have been interesting!

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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Hmm. Purple 'metalflake' with orange highlights could have been interesting!
    Option number #234 on the spreadsheet as I recall

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    Hope to have a listen soon.

    Tom, hope you still up for having a side by side shoot out with my Sugden amp.
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    Quote Originally Posted by montesquieu View Post
    Yes the colour decision was challenging. The original grey is a bit unexciting ... Will offered me the choice of any RAL colour so I bought a swatch and swithered between Mad Scientist's Laboratory Green, assorted coppery / orangey colours, various silvers/champagnes and even lipstick red. All this in flat, metallic or even two-tone with the lid being darker or lighter depending.

    Sent me quietly mental for weeks before I settled on a mid-grey sort of colour, neither a dark grey/ shiny near black nor the original flat grey, but something more neutral but still a bit stronger than the original colour, I'm pretty happy with the pics so far it seems to have worked out.
    what about clad in Green Leather, to match the Thorens TD124 MkII ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Edwardlon View Post
    Hope to have a listen soon.

    Tom, hope you still up for having a side by side shoot out with my Sugden amp.
    Of course. Having had a couple of quality solid state amps up against it I have a reasonable idea what to expect - one of the strengths of the STA100 is that it has most of the attributes of a solid state amp in terms of frequency response and distortion (measuring as good as or better than many solid state amps) while at the same time retaining the musical capabilities of a pentode valve amp. I would expect the Sugden - which comes at things the other way round - to run it close, but the Radford will be more enjoyable into the Tannoys.

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    I could arrive armed with my Lampi AND 211s and give this Radford a spanking... or maybe not.

    It would be interesting I have no doubt.

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    Quote Originally Posted by User211 View Post
    I could arrive armed with my Lampi AND 211s and give this Radford a spanking... or maybe not.

    It would be interesting I have no doubt.
    Would be interesting Justin.

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