I used to own them speakers in active form in a former life - OH WAILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:
Oh 'ang on a minute - these are 150's - oh triple waily!!!!!!!!!!!
I used to own them speakers in active form in a former life - OH WAILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry:
Oh 'ang on a minute - these are 150's - oh triple waily!!!!!!!!!!!
Tear down these walls; Cut the ties that held me
Crying out at the top of my voice; Tell me now if you can hear me
Yeah, they were 150s, Dave. I'm not always a fan, but fronted with the excellent Studer reel-to-reel, playing some stunning recordings, and how he'd set up the whole room, it was as close to 'being there' a live performance that I've heard from a hi-fi system!
Next up some sexy SP10 action:
Up close. you could see that the engineering quality was truly excellent!
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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I'm John.
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I'm Sandro.
So sorry I missed that One never read instruction manuals or Programs …
That is home for me I seen the Live show a few times the last one about 6 7 years ago IMO san Vidal is far to big a venue and at that time the cembalo is very much lost (consider that it is a 500 year old instrument) and would have liked to ask how they recorded it
Some T/T and bearing pron, plus record-cleaning action:
Townshend Seismic Speaker bars:
Mains socket madness:
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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Location: Manchester
Posts: 359
I'm John.
The talk was very interesting. Well worth checking out if you get another chance. I meant to buy the latest Chasing the Dragon CD but I forgot to go back to the room. Agree with Marco about the system too, absolutely wonderful.
I was also impressed by the Danish Buchardt speakers in room 3.
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NuNu Distribution were demonstrating TAD, along with a very effective and cost-effective high-end streamer:
As ever, Tony was a friendly and amenable host, playing a variety great music, some of which was even through Spotify that sounded more than acceptable. Through the streamer, the sound was excellent, and about the first time I've heard sound produced by TAD speakers that I could've lived with.
It was open, dymamic, engaging and effortlessly musical, and the standmounts on demo produced surprisingly well-controlled and extended bass, with a clean and crisp top-end that was never fatiguing. I can imagine these speakers sounding quite stunning (and rather intimate) in their intended environment, which would be a much smaller room than they were used in here.
£13k, though...
Ok, more pics after the footy!!
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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Do I miss all this Top End bling/slurp/involvement?
Head tells me no and don't be silly reminiscing, but my heart..... Glad you had a good time chaps and more please from today
Tear down these walls; Cut the ties that held me
Crying out at the top of my voice; Tell me now if you can hear me
Had a wander round for an hour or 2 earlier and thought the whole thing was really good, lovely enthusiastic atmosphere, lots of great sounding rooms. The highlights for me were the kralk room (which unfortunately I didn't take photos of) and the few rooms below I did photo
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Technics SL1210 with
SME IV Arm & AT OC9XML,
Firebottle modded Tron Convergence Phono Stage,
Bluesound Node 2i, Technics SL DZ 1200 CD
Denon PMA1700ne amp
Yamaha NS1000M Speakers.
Few more
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Technics SL1210 with
SME IV Arm & AT OC9XML,
Firebottle modded Tron Convergence Phono Stage,
Bluesound Node 2i, Technics SL DZ 1200 CD
Denon PMA1700ne amp
Yamaha NS1000M Speakers.