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    Quote Originally Posted by Reffc View Post
    Are those valves each wearing a pair of "Beats by Dre" Tom?
    Herbies finest tube dampers I'll have you know!

    And some eBay cheapies. Remarkably effective in combination.

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    I'm George.

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    Having made that impression on me a nice Tannoy has come on the market at a tempting price. It needs re-coning and I do not know a good re-coner from a bad one. Anyone help as I am tempted as they use 15" speakers although the quality of RFC is really, really tempting...Oh decisions.....

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    Join Date: Apr 2012

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    I'd go by Paul's (RFC) advice if I were you. He's dealt with enough Tannoys to know what your best bet is. I suspect he may point you towards Lockwood Audio for any recones or other driver fettling. Unless he's now doing them.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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    Join Date: Mar 2012

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    I'm Paul.

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    Quote Originally Posted by George47 View Post
    Having made that impression on me a nice Tannoy has come on the market at a tempting price. It needs re-coning and I do not know a good re-coner from a bad one. Anyone help as I am tempted as they use 15" speakers although the quality of RFC is really, really tempting...Oh decisions.....
    I've dropped you a private email George as following on from our chat, there is a lovely fully re-coned set available for you and in the "preferred" variety!

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    Quote Originally Posted by montesquieu View Post
    Will had it back briefly. It's due home again tomorrow
    It's on the van
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    Join Date: Jan 2008

    Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK

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    Has it succumbed to further tweakage?

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Has it succumbed to further tweakage?

    Marco.
    PSU refinement.

    Can't wait to hear.

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    Join Date: Jan 2008

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    Quality... Keep us posted of the results

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Quality... Keep us posted of the results

    Marco.
    Back and sounding utterly awesome.

    I had the good fortune some years ago to hear a Kondo M77 in my system (the same one in Jonjin's latest recent sales post). The Kondo's fleeting visit was a real event, and stuck in my memory as the moment when I really learned the value of a preamp as being about letting music flow - yes the hifi attributes of timbre, texture, timing, atmospherics, soundstaging are all important, but at it's heart a preamp is about bringing coherence and flow to the sound, not in an artificial way but in a realistic, organic way that allows all those hifi attributes to take their proper place, none of them centre stage.

    Will's pre is having a similar game-changing effect to the Kondo and indeed strongly reminds me of it. My system has been sounding very nice lately, but getting the pre back has been genuinely transformational. I'm sitting here feeling that it honestly can't get much (if any) better than this.

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    JJ's Kondo was all about flow and organics. I heard it with a AN Japan Neiro and his Onken horns (I think they were). About 500000000 miles away from my system sonically but enjoyable nonetheless.

    Glad the pre is shaping up, Tom.

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