Who's Got The Most Kit & Clutter?

[walpurgis]

Bragging rights don't go to me I'm afraid. I have a lot of gear but many on AOS will beat me hands down I expect.

Lets hear how extreme your collections are.

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Here's mine, or what I can find or remember I own.

Front end: Five turntables, four tonearms, at least twelve cartridges, three SUTs, one phono stage (I have two very good ones built into pre-amps). Three CD players, Two DACs, three jitters busting boxes, two valve buffers. One MD deck.

Amplification: Six pre-amps, four sets of power amps including monoblocks, three integrated amps.

Speakers: Four pairs, one sub, plus at least ten sets of bass or full range drivers, two pairs of midrange units, about ten pairs of tweeters and a couple of dozen various crossovers, etc.

Cables: Dozens of all sorts.

Other stuff: Boxes and boxes of components, books & brochures.

Tools & equipment for Hi-Fi use: Mountains!

[synsei]

I am remarkably free of hifi clutter these days having sold most of what I didn't want over the course of last year. Just a Delphonica Valhalla valve amp to shift and a couple of pairs of speakers to break down so I can sell the drive units and I will be left with just the kit I listen to, apart from a couple of bags of cables and bits and bobs which I may let go of too eventually ;)

[Barry]

Four turntables
Eight pick-up arms
At least a dozen cartridges
Three phono stages (cartridge equalisation amplifiers)
Four SUTs
Six tuners
Five preamps
Nine power amps
On active filter unit (Low-pass and High-pass)
Two CD players
Two casette players
Two reel-to-reel tape machines
Three pairs of speakers
Two mains conditioners
One RCM.

[Rare Bird]

Bragging rights don't go to me I'm afraid. I have a lot of gear but many on AOS will beat me hands down I expect.

Lets hear how extreme your collections are.



:rfl: got page space?

[istari_knight]

:rfl: got page space?

This fella's hoard has its own postcode :eyebrows: :respect:

[synsei]

This fella's hoard has its own postcode :eyebrows: :respect:

This fellas hoard generates its own gravity well. "That's not a moon, it's André's hifi collection..." :eek: :D

[keiths]

:rfl: got page space?

Don't do it André - AoS has crashed due to it exceeding its bandwidth allocation already this week :)

[Rare Bird]

Only kiddin, ive got rid of a hell of a lot of stuff.. i'm Down to the below:

23 Amplifiers,9 Tuner/Amps, 4 Tuners, 12 Cassette Decks, 9 CD Players, 5 Pair Speakers, 7 Record Decks, 13 Reel To Reel Machines..

[Anti Meep]

Dont know about the most kit, but I do have some clutter:D
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t673/antimeep/P1070878copy_zps56cb96c6.jpg
And my beautiful wife loves this...:lol:
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t673/antimeep/P1070061copy_zps6d704678.jpg

[walpurgis]

Dont know about the most kit, but I do have some clutter

A Richard Allen fan? Is that a pair of CG12 and a pair of CG12T units I see? Tried them myself in the past, well made but a bit of an antique performance wise.

The speaker cables look rather similar to my Transparent jobbies.

[Barry]

Only kiddin, ive got rid of a hell of a lot of stuff.. i'm Down to the below:

23 Amplifiers,9 Tuner/Amps, 4 Tuners, 12 Cassette Decks, 9 CD Players, 5 Pair Speakers, 7 Record Decks, 13 Reel To Reel Machines..

Whoa! :eek: Beats me - and I thought I had a load of stuff!

[Tim]

23 Amplifiers,9 Tuner/Amps, 4 Tuners, 12 Cassette Decks, 9 CD Players, 5 Pair Speakers, 7 Record Decks, 13 Reel To Reel Machines..
Holy smoke André!
I just have 3 amps, 2 pairs of speakers, 2 DAC's and a bunch of computer parts :eyebrows: but I do have an ever increasing music collection, so I'm happy as its music not gear that gets my juices flowing :)

[Barry]

Holy smoke André!
I just have 3 amps, 2 pairs of speakers, 2 DAC's and a bunch of computer parts :eyebrows: but I do have an ever increasing music collection, so I'm happy as its music not gear that gets my juices flowing :)

Amen to that! :)

[Macca]

I got way too much but not as much as Andre - plus you can bet all of his is near mint and working. I actually have a CD player graveyard...No, I'm not kidding with that ;)

[Anti Meep]

CG10's and 10T's:) They are actually sitting on top of some Goodmans cabinets that contain a pair of tasty 201's.
The cables are MIT MH750. At present I prefer the MH750 to the QED XT400 that is also laying around somewhere:lol:
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t673/antimeep/P1070825copy_zps3eea1c39.jpg
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t673/antimeep/P1070829copy_zps264fb70d.jpg

[walpurgis]

The music is all important obviously, but the Hi-Fi as an interest is just as valid and I'm saying this as somebody who was trained as a musician (when I was young). I would say I can see both sides of the argument, but there isn't one really.

[walpurgis]

CG10's and 10T's:) They are actually sitting on top of some Goodmans cabinets that contain a pair of tasty 201's.

Those Goodmans are gorgeous. I rate them alongside the Wharfedale RSDD Super 10s as being amongst my favourite British 60/70s full range drivers.

[Ninanina]

Only kiddin, ive got rid of a hell of a lot of stuff.. i'm Down to the below:

23 Amplifiers,9 Tuner/Amps, 4 Tuners, 12 Cassette Decks, 9 CD Players, 5 Pair Speakers, 7 Record Decks, 13 Reel To Reel Machines..

And I thought I had a lot of gear!

2 amps, 2 CD players, 4 pairs of speakers, 1 Dac...... Nothing in comparison:)

[Audio Al]

I am keeping quiet ;)

[Marco]

Shut it, daftee, and go and find me some PISHANTO! :exactly:

Marco.

[Audio Al]

Shut it, daftee, and go and find me some PISHANTO! :exactly:

Marco.

Already back with some treasure , see my boot sale thread :)

[Wakefield Turntables]

All my stuff is listed in my Sig. I have sold loads of stuff to fund the Garrard project. Additional unlisted includes x2 more pairs of speakers and and a integreated amp I bought last week. Next purchase is the Krell KSA xx if I can ever find one.....

[realysm42]

I've got just the right amount to get me a sound, nothing more.

[Alex_UK]

4 Turntables, 7 CD Players, 2 Cassette Decks, 3 tuners, 1 Receiver, 8 amps, 13 pairs of speakers. (Not including a load of old AV kit in the garage, games consoles etc.) I'm sure there's more that I've forgotten about...

At least I'm using some of it - 4 setups.

[Tim]

13 pairs of speakers
:stalks:

[jollyfix]

2 Turntables. 3 Tuners, 3 CDP, 4 Amps, 1 Tube buffer, 6 pairs of speakers, 5 sets of spk cable, 1 Tape machine, 1 Mini disc, 10 IC'S.

[icehockeyboy]

I'm almost embarrassed at the lack of spare kit hanging around......:)

3 tuners
1 TT
4 amps
4 pairs of speakers, but that's not including some AV ones.
2 cass decks.

And as far as I can remember, that's it!

[Marco]

I feel very weird now having only one of everything, apart from a few cartridges and three pairs of speakers... Mind you, I've never been one for collecting boxes :)

Marco.

[Rare Bird]

Don't do it André - AoS has crashed due to it exceeding its bandwidth allocation already this week :)

:eyebrows:

Turntables:
Goldring/Lenco 'GL70'
Goldring/Lenco 'GL75'
Garrard '401'
Connoisseur 'BD1'
CJ Walker 'CJ55'
Sansui 'SR1050'
Thorens 'TD160, Mk.I'

Loudspeakers:
Castle Acoustics 'Richmond Mk.I (X2 Pair) & Mk.II
Castle Acoustics 'Howard Mk.I'
Castle Acoustics 'Conway Mk.I'
Mordaunt Short 'Paegant Mk.I'
B&W 'D5'

Amplifiers:
Quad '33'/'303'
Quad '50D' (X2)
Rogers 'A100'
Rogers 'Ravensbrook'
New Acoustic Dimension 'Model 90'
A&R Cambridge 'A60'
Ferrograph 'F307, Mk.I & II'
Ferrograph '20/20
Trio 'KA2000'& 'KA2000A'
Trio 'TK150'
Sugden 'A48 Mk.I'
Sugden 'A48, Mk.II'
Radford 'SCA30'
Leak 'Stereo 30+'
Leak 'Stereo 70'
Armstrong '421'
Armstrong '521'
Tripletone '8+8'
Akai 'AA5000'
National Panasonic 'SA73'
Rotel 'RA310'
Rotel 'RA610'
Prinzsound 'SA5001'

Tuner/Amps:
New Acoustic Dimension '160'
Sansui '310'
Rotel 'RX200'
Akai 'AA8500'
Akai 'AA7000'
Armstrong '426'
Armstrong '526'
Rogers 'Ravensbrook Reciever'
Goodmans 'Module 80'


Tuner:
Quad 'FM3'
Ferrograph 'STFM'
Sugden 'R21'
A&R Cambridge 'T21'

CD Players:
Mission 'DAD7000R' (X2)
Sony 'CDP101'
Sony 'CDP302ES'
Sony CDP-XB930E UK Special Edition
Technics 'SL-P770'
Technics 'SL-P999'
Meridian 'MCD'
Philips 'CD100'
Marantz 'CD73' (Original model)

Cassette Deck:
Nakamichi '500'
Technics 'RS273USD'
Sansui 'SC737'
Teac 'A450'
Pioneer 'CT3131'
Akai 'GXc 510D'
Akai 'GXC 570D'
Akai 'GXC 706D'
Akai 'CR81'(8 Track)
Aurex 'PC6030'
Sony 'TC129A'
Tandberg 'TCD300'


Reel To Reel:
Ferrograph 'Series Seven' (x2)
Ferograph 'Logic Seven'
Sony 'TC270'
Sony 'TC366'
Sony 'TC377'
Sony 'TC399'
Uher 'Varicord 263'
Uher 'Royal De-Luxe'
Chilton '100s'
Revox 'A77, Mk.I'
Akai 'X1800SD'
Akai 'GX230D'
Akai 'GX210D'

[Gordon Steadman]

I feel very weird now having only one of everything, apart from a few cartridges and three pairs of speakers... Mind you, I've never been one for collecting boxes :)

Marco.

Yeah, shame you only have one of everything. Otherwise you could have called in on Firebottle and me on your trip through France, scattering spare hi-fi as you go.

Always open to help lighten the load. You could just say hello of course. Might even find some garlic and herbs to go with something.:cool:

[The Grand Wazoo]

Andre!....and that's since you've given up with hi-fi!

[Rare Bird]

I just collect stuff Chris, there's no audiophile aspect to it, that's the depatment ive given up with.. :)

[realysm42]

Ah do you have so much (@everyone)?

Is it for the joy of collecting?

I'd rather pool my money into the one absolute example of the best I can get.

[Rare Bird]

As outlined above it's collecting for me & an obsession i suppose. Im not really intrested in Audio as an hobby especially the tripe available these days

[Tim]

Very impressive André, some wonderful gear in there :)

[Marco]

Yeah, shame you only have one of everything. Otherwise you could have called in on Firebottle and me on your trip through France, scattering spare hi-fi as you go.

Always open to help lighten the load. You could just say hello of course. Might even find some garlic and herbs to go with something.:cool:

Lol! Would love to pop buy and see you guys. I've still to make the route out yet, but if it's geographically practical to swing by and say hello, en-route from Calais to Tuscany (Italy), I'll do it! :)

Marco.

[Gordon Steadman]

Lol! Would love to pop buy and see you guys. I've still to make the route out yet, but if it's geographically practical to swing by and say hello, en-route from Calais to Tuscany (Italy), I'll do it! :)

Marco.

Ah, thats a big swing, basically an 'L' shape. You'd see a fair bit of France though:)

[Marco]

Yup, I just checked out where you are... I want to be heading east, not west. Still, it might be worth it to taste the Pineau. Is it good where you are? :)

Marco.

[DSJR]

I'm an addict, but not of the chemical kind fortunately apart from alcohol, which I can't afford to indulge these days thank heavens :lol:

I love music, but am also a gear addict too - but more the vintage decent stuff than the current highly priced bling sold by the likes of KJ W1 these days (heard that Ab Sounds Ricardo has a significant stake in HiFi News as well, which might explain a few things?).

I've got around seven turntables in various states of repair and loads of cartridges with which to feed them, now down to four tuners, three amps (although I've set my heart on getting "my" Quad amps back from exile ;)), a Denon three head/twin capstan cassette deck, a few video machines including a later Betamax and several pairs of speakers dotted around and about. Over the decades, I also lent stuff around and never got it back.

[Gordon Steadman]

Still, it might be worth it to taste the Pineau. Is it good where you are? :)

Marco.

Oh yes indeedy. There are some local places that do it rather well, quite apart from that there is some rather good cognac and white fizz at about 6 euros a bottle that slips down rather well too:champagne:

[Eagle owl]

Four pairs of stereo speakers, 1 x 5.1 speakers, four stereo integrated amplifiers, one AV amplifier, two cassette decks, two cassette portbles, two CD players, one DAC, three minidisc decks, five minidisc portables, one tuner and one Meridian radio CD player.

[The Grand Wazoo]

Currently in occupation at this address:

Three turntables, fours arms and 5 cartridges
One pre-amp
One pair of SUTs
Two phono stages one MM & one MC (as well as the MM one in the pre-amp)
A mains thingy
One CD player (with digital ins & outs)
Three tuners
Two reel to reels (plus a low-fi one)
One cassette deck
Two DACs
Four stereo power amps
Two integrated amps
Three receivers
Five pairs of speakers

.....and a massive box of cables

[Roy S]

7 turntables (3.5 working)
7 amplifiers
5 pairs of speakers
2 fm tuners & 2 DAB radios plumbed into systems
6 CD players
1 Minidisc deck
2 Cassette decks
1 poorly reel to reel
1 Uncle Tom Cobley

[MartinT]

I've sold almost everything now. Apart from my main and secondary systems, the garage stores one turntable, a preamp, two pairs of speakers and a regenerator.

Oh, and a two-thirds complete World Audio Design EL34 power amp that I must find a good home for.

Oh, oh, and tons of assorted cables!

[SPS]

I've got far too much stuff, about 15 years ago I sold a 124 and regretted it after a week, so I've sold very little since, there's about 25 decks about 40 cartridges, about 70 mostly pairs of assorted vintage drivers, about 15 valve amps in various states, about 10 pairs of speakers and enough valves to start a business, a few years ago there was over 10,000
And there's loads of related stuff, books transformers, chokes, valve bases etc... i really don't want to part with it

I know a guy who has that much high quality vintage kit in various stores and lock ups makes my stash look nothing...

[walpurgis]

I bet you're about my age Steve and I'm not saying what that is, but I still have a copy of the G W Smith Hi-Fi catalogue I picked up on Edgware Road in 1971.

[MartinT]

G W Smith Hi-Fi catalogue

I remember them and was down there (and Tottenham Court Road's Lindair/Lion House and Laskys) on many occasions.

[Beobloke]

Well , having checked the spreadsheet I use to keep track of such things, I appear to have:

20 Turntables
11 Arms
26 Cartridges
15 pairs of speakers (mostly big...)
3 Subwoofers
3 cassette decks
3 CD players
3 Tuners
3 Phono Stages
1 Disco Console
3 Radiograms
2 Receivers
8 Amplifiers
1 DAC
1 Integrated System
1 Laserdisc Player
2 toy record players!

And probably more stuff I've forgotten...

[The Grand Wazoo]

Bloody hell Adam, what's wrong? Your turntable quotient has taken a massive dive recently!

[MikeMusic]

Sounds like I'm definitely not top -which is good news in some ways at least.
I have too much stuff I will never use again so must move it on
5 systems, 4 of which get daily use
We had the house extended in 2009.
Could do with more space for the hifi, LPs, reels and CDs, filing system for cables
and small bits ..........

[Rare Bird]

I think im gonna be faced with an LP storage problem pretty soon, i physically cannot get anymore in my man cave!

[walpurgis]

Have we figured out who's he winner on component count yet? Or are there more contenders in the wings?

[Beobloke]

Bloody hell Adam, what's wrong? Your turntable quotient has taken a massive dive recently!

I know, I know. I must be getting sensible in my old age!

[MikeMusic]

Have we figured out who's he winner on component count yet? Or are there more contenders in the wings?

I guess I'm in the top 5. If some more lunatics post I could slip out of the top 10
:)

[SPS]

Those Goodmans are gorgeous. I rate them alongside the Wharfedale RSDD Super 10s as being amongst my favourite British 60/70s full range drivers.

I have a couple of pairs of those 10 inch whafedales, I have one pair in my caravan, the larger magnet versions of the wharfdale range are all very good.
I have the super 3s/5/8/10/12 and rs15's all nice in their own way. And all good for open baffles...

I have a single of Phillips 10"that has a slightly better tone, along with the Whitley sentorian 816 that have a very nice tone...as they say.. the tone is in the cone...
I also have a pair of those cg10 and matching tweeters, I will have to give those a try one day

Cheers

[walpurgis]

Whitley sentorian 816 that have a very nice tone...as they say.. the tone is in the cone...

I bought a brand new pair of (old stock) HF1016 many years ago, but found them far too forward, as is common with high flux drivers of the era. Better suited to large reflex or horn enclosures. I didn't keep them, nor the 12" ones I also had. Worth a small fortune these days I dare say.

Always wanted to try Baker Laboratory Standard 12 units, but never could find a pair.

I'm waiting to try my recently purchased sixties 10" x 7" Isophon wide range drivers in cabinets, should be interesting. Tested them loose and efficiency seems high. (see thumbnail)

[Patrick Dixon]

5 Turntables (Garrard EMT Thorens Lenco Rega)
6 Arms (Trans-Fi SME Ortofon Mayware (x2) Rega)
2 Phono Stages (Graham Slee Tricord Dino)
5 Decca Cartridges
3 Non-Decca Cartridges (spits)
Some Squeezeboxes
1 NOS DAC
2 Telefunken Reel to Reel Decks
1 Pre amp (obviously I need some more of these)
1 Integrated Amp (Rega)
2 Power Amps
4 pairs Speakers (Isobariks Ditton 66 Coniston Rs Ditton 10s)
1 FM Tuner (Leak Troughline)
About 10 Wooden Valve Radios (including 5 by RAP - mostly with chrome chassis and glass backs)

That's what I can remember anyway

[walpurgis]

3 Non-Decca Cartridges (spits)

Now Now!

[Barry]

Now Now!

Well one of them is, I assume, an EMT TSD15. I wouldn't spit at that! :eek:

[Patrick Dixon]

Sadly not. A couple of poxy Shures and a poxy DL103.

(I'm sure an EMT cartridge would only be an expensive disappointment compared to the Deccas anyway.)

Actually, just remembered, I also have a couple of the old Ortofon mono Tondose with the EMT, although I have never played them as they need rebuilding.