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    Quote Originally Posted by Gromit View Post
    Hard to say, Martin. It was a fair while ago. My Tecchy wasn't overly modded (TS HE psu/Vantage bearing & feet/KAB damper/Sumiko shell/Achromat) but I do seem to remember the Pioneer was on a similar level. The deck that beat both of them though was the Sony PS-6750. Doing a very brief comparison on the day, everyone else in the room came to the same conclusion, in fact it was a major and unexpected eye-opener. Should add the Sony wasn't even set up optimally - the cartridge was just balanced out, no re-alignment at all. Shame it had an earthing problem which I fixed on getting the deck home.

    If a good 6750 came up now I'd sell the PL71 in a heartbeat.
    Yup, the best Sony D/Ds are strangely not mentioned much. Experience tells me, that when Sony (figuratively speaking), sat back and said: 'right, we're going make this as good as we possibly can', the results were invariably stunning. The only problem with these types of T/Ts is availablity of spare parts, should anything major go pop. That's really the main reason (SQ aside) why the Techy is so popular: they can always be fixed, if necessary!
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    A bit more Jap Crap...



    Photo taken from 4m away.
    Last edited by Gromit; 11-07-2013 at 13:16.
    Richard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gromit View Post
    Hard to say, Martin. It was a fair while ago. My Tecchy wasn't overly modded (TS HE psu/Vantage bearing & feet/KAB damper/Sumiko shell/Achromat) but I do seem to remember the Pioneer was on a similar level. The deck that beat both of them though was the Sony PS-6750. Doing a very brief comparison on the day, everyone else in the room came to the same conclusion, in fact it was a major and unexpected eye-opener. Should add the Sony wasn't even set up optimally - the cartridge was just balanced out, no re-alignment at all. Shame it had an earthing problem which I fixed on getting the deck home.

    If a good 6750 came up now I'd sell the PL71 in a heartbeat.
    I know what you mean - I've always felt the same about it's bigger brother the 8750 and if one of those came up in top order I'd be madly tempted

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gromit View Post
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    Whoooaah!... What kind of lens is that.. Superb quality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Black Adder View Post
    Whoooaah!... What kind of lens is that.. Superb quality.
    Hi Joe - it's with a Tamron SP 70-300. Just bought it fairly recently, and I'm chuffed to bits with it. Spent a couple of hours testing it prior to purchase and once stopped down it was easily a match for the equivalent Canon L-Series glass. For a third of the price.
    Richard.

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    Great quality for a zoom lens of that range, Richard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Black Adder View Post
    That's a slightly different lens Joe - mine's the SP version with the VC (vibration control) mechanism. For £1 under 300 quid though it's something of a bargain. Comes with a 5 yr warranty too.
    Richard.

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    Not sure that version is available for a Sony body though...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gromit View Post
    Agreed Neil - it seemed ProAc, in their 'wisdom' got obsessive about making the Tablettes larger and larger, and ended up with a speaker that was totally alien to the original and completely lost the plot. Then they went back to the original dimensions with the Ref 8.

    Yup, the tweeter foam on one of mine has gone (I ended up removing it all when it became an eyesore) and the other is just about hanging in there. ProAc will sell you a new foam for something like £40 - each. A brand new Scanspeak D2010 tweeter only costs around 50 quid.

    Not heard the Towers, unfortunately.
    How much for a wee bit of foam to surround the tweeter - rip off there. £80 seems crazy, we are not talking about a new drive unit just the defraction cancelling foam.


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