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    I'll be heading up the M5 shortly, so thanks for the impressions so far.
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    I love threads like this. Great pics and succinct commentary - looking forward to more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pete The Cat View Post
    I love threads like this. Great pics and succinct commentary - looking forward to more.

    Pete
    +1 Justin does this very well IMO
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    I'm convinced the Rega P10 is fine turntable. Heard one in someone's home system with an AN Io, and sounding good again here with the Apheta 2 cartridge and the MF Nu-Vista phono stage, which looks to be a fairly serious piece of kit. That ceramic platter appears to be a great material to rest vinyl on from a sonic perspective.

    Powered by an MF Encore 500. Better in here than I expected given speakers I'm not generally fond of.

    What I really like about the P10 is that it looks so unassuming and non-over the top yet does the job so well. Do you really need anymore than this in a TT? A good two fingers at the over the top designs from the likes of clearaudo and Transrotor, for instance.







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    Quote Originally Posted by pure sound View Post
    The new SP10 was worth a look.
    Totally missed it - decent in the flesh? Did they have the matching plinth?

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    Quote Originally Posted by brian2957 View Post
    +1 Justin does this very well IMO
    Absolutely...He is da man!

    Keep 'em comin', Justers

    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.

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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.

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    Moving up in the TT design complexity stakes, here's a few Kronos shots. Single (£16,995) and double platter (£24,995) variants. They do two tonearm variants - a 10 (Helena) and a 12 (Black Beauty) incher at 8 an 10K respectively.

    According to the price list they also do what they call a full analogue source at £115K. Hm.








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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Absolutely...He is da man!

    Keep 'em comin', Justers

    Marco.
    Aw, dude


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    Quote Originally Posted by hifinutt View Post
    great show . the ram speakers room pretty good with the little l3/5a falcon speakers causing quite a stir . their sudgen amps looked good . the new spendor a7 sounding very natural and the audionote e`s were just utterly fantastic . if only , if only they would turn the volume down in that room !!

    well worth a visit
    Nah, it was about right when I was in there - pretty loud.

    I think there's something good about this slate veneered blue coned AN E variant. It stiffens up the cabinet a bit I think.

    This room was doing the Audio Note thing well this year. It presented tonality and sense of acoustic space in a way nothing else in the show got close to. But there's a price to pay with it, in that you become aware that it is coloured really quite quickly. And quite heavily so. If you don't give a damn about this, it is a real winner. If you do, it isn't. You just have to make a choice, I guess. Lots of people love it but ultimately I just couldn't live with it. What it does really well with is the sort of music I just don't really listen to.






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    Quote Originally Posted by User211 View Post
    Aw, dude

    Word, bro

    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.


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