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Gazzamongo
12-06-2013, 16:47
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I'm gaz , asl , 45 , more tea vicar? , Leeds .... I also have an awesome cat called sky who is silly.

Always appreciated the dark art that is high fidelity and as a child of the late 60's went through the usual rights of passage from affordable set ups like a dual cs505 , thorens td160 , acoustic research turntable , nad 3020 , wharfedale diamond mk1 slowly towards the good stuff ending up in my 20's with a nice little flat earther system of linn lp12 , naim 42/110 , epos es14's which I was pretty well cuffed with for a few years then ended up selling to a friend who took it with him to Africa and then Norway so I'm glad it's both well travelled and has a loyal owner.

I'm more into the d.i.y methodology these days and having sold my Sony sacd player a while back so that I could , well , afford to eat things and such ( thank you David Cameron for making sure that after working 20 years straight in Leeds I'm now an unhappy chappy attending job club every two weeks :s ) it's a pc/ dac based front end , naim nait circa 84 and a home brewed speaker setup up based around a karlson k15 cabinet ( shock and indeed horror ? Or Knowing smiles folks ? ) sunn magna compression drivers ( altec 288 clone ) on jabs horns , and altec 604-8h drivers with a not very good made by my crossover ( cue plea for help in a later thread I think )

Loving ear the effortless whisper to a scream dynamics you get with high effeciency set ups and the p.r.a.t effect from naim amps <- almost makes you proud to be British.

Loving what I've seen so far in the forum , fantastic self build stuff going on , Westminster clones etc

The wigwam shows look to have been awesome too and really wish I hadn't missed this years , ...

Ah well , next time

Gaz

The Grand Wazoo
12-06-2013, 17:10
Hi Gary and welcome to AoS.
What sort of music do you like?

Gazzamongo
12-06-2013, 17:32
Hey tgw ,

Knew I'd missed something out :s

Tastes are also related to my generation is guess so grew up with prog rock , punk , post punk , industrial ,

I like a lot of the things that most people don't , like the smiths , the fall , dead Kennedy's etc , not much affinity for classical as i tend to appreciate the more visceral side of music but do like some ambient things like brian eno

I guess a lot of my taste is kinda low fi or badly recorded but I think good hifi 'finds' something even in a bad recording ... Snap crackled n bop

Alex_UK
12-06-2013, 21:29
Evening Gary, welcome from me too. Ya mad bastad! ;) (Meant in the nicest possible way! I think you'll fit in here just fine! :))

Hope you enjoy the forum.

Gazzamongo
12-06-2013, 21:38
Loving it so far and it's nice that's it's uk based as it always used to be the case that a lot of the interesting stuff happened on the high efficiency speaker asylum and such like.... Oh ok so you guys are paying with amazing horn set ups somewhere in Chicago ?... Have fun then >sulks<

Scalford isn't a bazillion miles away tho :)