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: Seaford UK
Posts: 1,861
I'm Dennis.
Those Wharfdale woofers look good to me Geoff.
Those would be the Wharfedale CS10/DD.
My first speakers used a Wharfedale RS8/DD - an 8" unit with mechanical crossover (the DD: dual diaphragm) and a (rubber) roll surround suspension. Built them into a Wharfedale design 1.2cu ft distributed rear port enclosure, back in 1969. Handed them over to my father when I bought my Quads (around 1974). They were working well up until the end of 2000, when I sold them after my father died. Hopefully the rubber roll surrounds have not perished, but I have no idea of their longevity; presumably longer than the foam surrounds that Wharfedale also used.
Barry
Location: Middlesex, UK
Posts: 4,482
I'm Alex.
Ahh, The Wharfedale super 8's these where the first speakers I remember hearing as a kid, my dad had one in the factory built cabinet, and one in a cab he built himself, [couldnt afford both ready built ones at the time] on the end of a little Heathkit 3 watt single ended amp [Which I still have a version of somewhere] that system always sounded good to me as a kid.
"Today scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality"
Nikola Tesla
Its now a conspiracy theory to believe that the Immune system is capable of doing the job it was designed to do.
A fish is only as healthy as the water its swimming in ! [Dr Robert Young]
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Fancy playing with ABR units? Pair of tidy looking KEF BD139's here.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kef-B139-...8AAOSwmNxaYnHW
I don't need them. I've two pairs already (for some odd reason ).
Location: Seaford UK
Posts: 1,861
I'm Dennis.
They look like the better cast baskets.
TD124 went cheap - £500. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THORENS-T...19.m1438.l2649