Hi, nice to find this forum

[Macca]

Very nice indeed!

[Jonboy]

You certainly have the bug alright, the BTH amp is push pull then, i couldn't see the other valves, i like the old cinema stuff, been offered whats left of an old 1930's cinema amp and speaker, its not complete but i really aught to go and have a look you never know it might be a px25 or something,

[BTH K10A]

You certainly have the bug alright, the BTH amp is push pull then, i couldn't see the other valves, i like the old cinema stuff, been offered whats left of an old 1930's cinema amp and speaker, its not complete but i really aught to go and have a look you never know it might be a px25 or something,

It's always worth saving old cinema audio equipment. Amps are nearly always restorable and the speakers were usually designed to be servicable on site so are repairable too. Even if its only one amp and speaker with little hope of finding others to pair up you can have the beginnings of a wonderful true mono system.

[MartinT]

Very nice, Andy. I've always liked JBLs and would lust after yours were it not for the fact that I'm very happy with my speakers. A very underrated brand, I think, because of the reputation of some past speakers that were really designed for studios (like the Century).

[Marco]

Hi Andy,

Welcome to AoS

Wow - that's some system, but an even more impressive record collection!!

Love those BTH cinema speakers - now them's propa bad boys!

Huge speakers rule... I like your JBLs, but lets see those EMTs!!

Marco.

[BTH K10A]

Hi Andy,

Welcome to AoS

Wow - that's some system, but an even more impressive record collection!!

Love those BTH cinema speakers - now them's propa bad boys!

Huge speakers rule... I like your JBLs, but lets see those EMTs!!

Marco.

Hi Marco
Yes the record collection has grown a bit. Thats the thinned out version. I've got boxes full of records upstairs that I need to start getting rid of.

The EMT's are great. I have had thesetwo about 14 years or so

This is the 930st. Dates from 1963. It would have originally had an Ortofon RF229 arm and has the hole where the backstop post used to be but was changed to the EMT 929 arm sometime in it's life. It has the 155st phono unit. I mostly use this with a TMD25 mono cartridge as the 155st has lots of EQ options and flexibility. I picked this up in Germany from a recording studio that was going all digital along with a Telefunken M10 RTR and its amps.



This is the 938 my wife bought me for christmas just before I aquired the 930. It has the moving coil phono boards and is a joy to use.


Because the EMTs and some other kit I have had in the past like Telefunken and Klangfilm amps use balanced inputs/outputs I bought a Toft LBPA5 pre. It's an amazing bit of kit wih switchable balanced/SE phone option on all inputs and outputs. It's totally silent too which is something I've never found with any other pre. It hasn't got hi end looks but I don't really care.

Just noticed it's a bit dusty in the pic so I'll have to do a bit of cleaning in my music room. Our cleaners are banned from my room after after a previous one dusted one of my amps and managed to crack the glass on one of a pair of EF866 valves ( a neumann specced super EF86). These are rarer than hens teeth and I've never been able to find another.

[SPS]

some nice kit there,

i too have some bth kit, a rather large power supply and 3 matching amps they are ef37 driving kt66's, p/p cinema amps
i've searched for info on them but found nothing so far, i'm more into single ended amps... but they look like they have some nice iron in them

i think i also may have a bth compresion driver, I have a few in a box somewhere
i love the old kit.. and have some quite rare stuff

welcome..

steve

[Beechwoods]

Welcome to the forum Andy. I must admit your choice of gear is a pretty impeccable

I have an RT707 and it's a lovely machine. Sounds fantastic, and so well engineered. And you've got a Nak 600... gorgeous! The old 'slice style' Naks definitely have something about them. Is yours silver or black? I hope both of them still get regular use!

[BTH K10A]

Welcome to the forum Andy. I must admit your choice of gear is a pretty impeccable

I have an RT707 and it's a lovely machine. Sounds fantastic, and so well engineered. And you've got a Nak 600... gorgeous! The old 'slice style' Naks definitely have something about them. Is yours silver or black? I hope both of them still get regular use!

Thanks Nick. The Nak is silver, if you look to the right of the pic of the JBL's on page 1 you will see the TR707, TU-517 & Nak 600.

I bought the RT707 because I picked up a large batch of pre recorded classical tapes that had a lot of Szell Beethoven, Schumann etc on the Epic label in it. In the crazy world we live in it was way cheaper to buy the RT707 than buy an original Columbia SAX copy of the Szell Beethoven 9th. It is a very well built machine with excellent sound and very user friendly.

I used to have a Telefunken M10 complete with V386 & V387 record and replay amps. It was getting little use so I ended up selling it. I understand it is now in Russia.

[Beechwoods]

if you look to the right of the pic of the JBL's on page 1 you will see the TR707, TU-517 & Nak 600.

You have a big room! I scanned the pics and missed them the first time! Seriously... the RT707 looks a lot bigger in my place!

The Telefunken is a serious piece of gear. And a pancake player to boot! I read somewhere that some of The Beatles' Hamburg sessions were recorded on an M10.