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https://youtu.be/kaWpP95MwKw
Some way out TTs (and tone arms) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OUYOvxNX0'
All that just to replay a flawed and imperfect sound storage medium.
montesquieu
01-09-2017, 23:14
In terms of hifi, having been round the Munich show and seen how easy it would be to blow £100k on a load of relative (but shiny/branded) crap, I doubt whether much if anything in my system would change. (Having said that at 'list' my current setup would be over £50k - needless to say it owes me less than 20-30% of that but it's still a lot of dosh, more than anything else I own bar the house and my LPs/CDs from 40 years of record collecting).
I certainly wouldn't replace it with LV stuff, which underwhelmed/underperformed at Munich. thanks but no thanks.
What would change though is my house - my current kit would undoubtedly be improved in a better/dedicated room.
I don't do the lottery though but working toward the max allocation of premium bonds (where the odds aren't much different but you keep the stake!).
walpurgis
01-09-2017, 23:27
Regardless of budget, A proper pair of Tannoys would be in there, along maybe with some vintage Altecs (good electrostatics could figure as well). Amps possibly Radford Revival or Pass. TVC and LDR pre-amp offerings would be 'soak tested'. The rest? A bit of 'suck it and see'. And that includes the front end (ends).
montesquieu
01-09-2017, 23:35
Regardless of budget, A proper pair of Tannoys would be in there, along maybe with some vintage Altecs (good electrostatics could figure as well). Amps possibly Radford Revival or Pass. TVC and LDR pre-amp offerings would be 'soak tested'. The rest? A bit of 'suck it and see'. And that includes the front end (ends).
There already comrade :)
Floyddroid
02-09-2017, 05:30
https://youtu.be/kaWpP95MwKw
They spent all that time yapping before one of them having the bright idea of listening to music. I thought the guy describing the system sounded more like the late Stanley Unwin than a sales rep ha ha.
The level control on the speakers have a lock so 'maids and children' can't mess with them.
Good idea: I often have that problem with my staff cocking about with my system when I'm not there.
Anyway he has sold 8 pairs so far, good luck to him, it all helps the balance of payments. I had a chat with him on the dog once about 20 years ago, very helpful and patient bloke.
If I won the lottery, I certainly wouldn't be spending it all on hi-fi!! Bizarre as it may seem, folks, there are other (rather more important) things in life ;)
Marco.
I wouldn't spend it all on hi-fi either. Just most of it :D
Lol - depending on how much we're talking about, the only hi-fi I'd spend it on would be on one of the new SP10s, which I'd put into an Artisan Fidelity plinth.
The rest would go on our house, friends and family, cars and travelling abroad! :)
Marco.
Well I would buy a detached house with some of it but round here that would hardly make a dent in a lottery win.
Lol - why on earth would you still live in Stoke? No disrespect, but wouldn't you prefer your detached house to be somewhere nicer, perhaps by the sea (and abroad in warmer climes), since you like the beach so much? :)
Marco.
new medical team. and a nice detached bungalow or the like; maybe get the car done up too. give the kids a monkey each too;)
southall-1998
02-09-2017, 09:12
Martin Logan CLX & Krell Evolution Mono's.
S.
walpurgis
02-09-2017, 09:13
I'd cash it all and sit in candlelight counting it, whilst gazing at a picture of a Hi-Fi! ;)
southall-1998
02-09-2017, 09:15
I'd cash it all and sit in candlelight counting it, whilst gazing at a picture of a Hi-Fi! ;)
You have good willpower!
S.
Lol - why on earth would you still live in Stoke? No disrespect, but wouldn't you prefer your detached house to be somewhere nicer, perhaps by the sea (and abroad in warmer climes), since you like the beach so much? :)
Marco.
Nah, I like Stoke and besides all my mates live round about, too.
Shows you how very different we are, but then I've got Del, so don't need any more 'company' than that. If Snapper wanted to come along for the ride, then that's be cool :)
My Italian blood will likely always dictate that we'll end up living in Italy or abroad, as the lifestyle and climate there is much more my cup of tea!
Marco.
hifinutt
02-09-2017, 10:08
if i won the lottery i would employ some bin men to pick up our rubbish in brum :steam:
its piling up in the streets with flies , rats and stinking !!! they are on strike now for weeks
walpurgis
02-09-2017, 10:10
if i won the lottery i would employ some bin men to pick up our rubbish in brum :steam:
its piling up in the streets with flies , rats and stinking !!! they are on strike now for weeks
And they'll be expecting overtime on double pay to clear it all up once there's a settlement!
hifinutt
02-09-2017, 10:19
yes quite !!
I've got more than enough 'stuff', so would probably give most of the money to my children. Since I don't do the lottery, they'll have a long wait!
Us neither. Should do the Postcode Lottery though, as our house has a unique postcode, so if it came up we'd win the lot!
Marco.
Michael loves music
02-09-2017, 11:26
If I won the lottery I would take Louise Minchin Carol Kirkwood and Ruth Langsford to a posh hotel order drinks and put a do not disturb sign on the door ! By the way Ruth is on new series of strictly come dancing
Lol, Michael... You might find they'd kick you out the room and have a rug-munching party instead themselves! Although, I'm sure you'd find a wee 'spy hole' to put to good use!! :D
Marco.
A Pioneer SX 1250 receiver or kenwood/Sansui equivalent.
given the current rising prices of yer vintage silver stuff on thiefbay and a substantial win, might even have enough spare change for chips.
sadly I parted with a Yamaha CR1020 AND a Sansui 8080 a few scant years before the interest in "classic" kit took hold..........I could weep!!
Floyddroid
02-09-2017, 21:40
I would sell the f.....G lot and put on a Peg festival.
Anthony K
03-09-2017, 12:17
I think there is a slight dishonesty here , I reckon if any f**ker here won the big one , and lets say its real big , like eye wateringly so , a small dollop would go on a dream setup.
If you won say £8 mill, you could set up all loved ones , by a new gaff and still find £100 grand for hifi
I would be on the phone to Nagra Audio before the cheque f**king cleared
montesquieu
03-09-2017, 12:33
I think there is a slight dishonesty here , I reckon if any f**ker here won the big one , and lets say its real big , like eye wateringly so , a small dollop would go on a dream setup.
If you won say £8 mill, you could set up all loved ones , by a new gaff and still find £100 grand for hifi
I would be on the phone to Nagra Audio before the cheque f**king cleared
Honestly I don't know if you've been to Munich but as I said, it was an eye opener for me just how easy it would be to spend £100k and end up with a setup many here would consider 'meh'.
montesquieu
03-09-2017, 12:34
I think there is a slight dishonesty here , I reckon if any f**ker here won the big one , and lets say its real big , like eye wateringly so , a small dollop would go on a dream setup.
If you won say £8 mill, you could set up all loved ones , by a new gaff and still find £100 grand for hifi
I would be on the phone to Nagra Audio before the cheque f**king cleared
Honestly I don't know if you've been to Munich but as I said, it was an eye opener for me just how easy it would be to spend £100k and end up with a setup many here would consider 'meh'.
With £8 million to blow forget brand names, I'd have it all custom built to my exact specs. House would also be custom built and speakers would be concrete and built into the perfectly-proportioned room.
I would sell the f.....G lot and put on a Peg festival.
Would the audience be mainly gypsies?
Anthony K
03-09-2017, 12:40
Never been to Munich Tom.
I reckon I could get through a hundred G on cable alone.
walpurgis
03-09-2017, 13:06
Honestly I don't know if you've been to Munich but as I said, it was an eye opener for me just how easy it would be to spend £100k and end up with a setup many here would consider 'meh'.
That's very true. Not been to Munich, but I've heard plenty of upper 'high end' gear with monstrous prices that did nothing for me. I think it's the difference between having some fair idea of what sounds good to you and and aiming for that. Or just splashing out big time and buying something expensive 'cos one is loaded (but clueless :D)!
I think there is a slight dishonesty here , I reckon if any f**ker here won the big one , and lets say its real big , like eye wateringly so , a small dollop would go on a dream setup.
If you won say £8 mill, you could set up all loved ones , by a new gaff and still find £100 grand for hifi
I would be on the phone to Nagra Audio before the cheque f**king cleared
I really, genuinely wouldn't. There are some hifi things I'd like to try out, but most can be had for (relative) buttons. I don't even need a bigger house, and I like where I'm living. But as I said, I don't even do the lottery, so it's all academic to me.
walpurgis
03-09-2017, 13:19
With huge money. I'd move out of London, maybe even out of this country and worry about smaller details like Hi-Fi later.
And. If I was single. I'd already be living here:
http://i63.tinypic.com/2sacvpy.png
Pieoftheday
03-09-2017, 13:50
Me and a friend once got 5 numbers,£2400,so near yet so far .still it was very nice,me and my good lady had a great week in the lakes with our half :)
I've been in a syndicate of 20 people at work for over 10 years and 2 more years at my previous place. Most we have ever won in one go was £75. I don't hold out much hope but you have to be in these things as insurance. If it did hit the big one then everyone else leaves to begin a life of luxury, you're gutted because you declined to be in it, and you end up having to train a whole new bunch of people on your own.
I bought two lottery tickets when it first started. Neither won me anything, so I thought I'd quit while I was ahead. My father did the pools for thirty-odd years; never won a bean. Saturday evening was always the same - he'd check out the footie scores, saying firstly 'I see Hearts lost', then 'paupers again', throwing the coupon on to the fire.
I was at one place and ended up getting promoted to a much better job because the previous incumbent left due to a lottery win. So you don't actually have to play to benefit ;)
Seriously though you can't afford not to be in these syndicates. With my luck if I dropped out it would be guaranteed to hit big time the next week. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. Lots of ways to gamble money that are far more exciting.
Lots of ways to gamble money that are far more exciting.
I used to work with a bloke who would periodically fly to the States to gamble at Las Vegas. He wasn't very good at it (if you can be good, as opposed to just lucky at gambling) and ended up losing his job because he drank to drown his gambling sorrows. Although I'm completely risk-averse, I'm also aware that I have a potentially addictive personality. I can see myself waking up penniless in a Vegas hotel having spent my life savings on the slots.
walpurgis
03-09-2017, 14:35
Not me. Just getting out of bed each day is the biggest gamble I participate in. :)
I used to work with a bloke who would periodically fly to the States to gamble at Las Vegas. He wasn't very good at it (if you can be good, as opposed to just lucky at gambling) and ended up losing his job because he drank to drown his gambling sorrows. Although I'm completely risk-averse, I'm also aware that I have a potentially addictive personality. I can see myself waking up penniless in a Vegas hotel having spent my life savings on the slots.
I have, in the past, contributed considerably to the economy of Las Vegas, I must admit. Had a lot of fun doing it though. Ultimately I am too tight-fisted to ever get in over my head, so it has never been an issue for me.
All the gambling industry has ever had from me is two lottery tickets, a few quid on the Grand National when I was a nipper, and a year or so's worth of football pools money just after I started work. Oh, and some money in the slot machine in the pub on Anglesey where we used to go each summer in my early teens. All I've ever won is a few quid when the horse I backed won the Grand National one year, so I'm down a hundred or so quid overall.
If you count poker as gambling then I'm up on the deal by a fair margin. Don't play much anymore, though.
I last played poker at school, where we used to win each other's dinner money. The poker school came to an abrupt end when 'Crazy' John McGinley kicked in a window in a fit of rage when he lost a lot of money to someone or other. The noise attracted the attention of a passing schoolteacher who confiscated all the winnings and the pack of cards.
I last played poker at school, where we used to win each other's dinner money. The poker school came to an abrupt end when 'Crazy' John McGinley kicked in a window in a fit of rage when he lost a lot of money to someone or other. The noise attracted the attention of a passing schoolteacher who confiscated all the winnings and the pack of cards.
Ah, the screws would mostly turn a blind eye to it at my place. Although windows never got broken due to it. They did get broken quite often due to footballs going through them. One shattered over me once. But that was football so it was fine. Rugby was banned, though.
Minstrel SE
03-09-2017, 18:30
If I won the lottery I would phone up Moon Audio and book a full installation in my new home :)
Then I would contact the forum and mention I now have magnetic bearings and have trumped you all with a half a million pound system....Only Joking :D what do these top systems cost now?
Anyway dont gamble folks beyond the very occassional ticket with odds of 1 in millions. Anything that triggers further gambling is bad. Im so bored of it now I tend to just buy a ticket when they do the extra raffles. Most people could play for a lifetime and never see more than a tenner.
Ninanina
03-09-2017, 18:39
I very rarely do the lottery
However if I ever won the first thing on my list would not be hifi it would be a Porsche Boxster S...not because it's a Porsche but mainly due to the German engineering.. and the fun, of course :D
Neil McCauley
03-09-2017, 19:47
I have no interest in The Lottery but if I did, then ....
Mark Levinson HQD system with an Apogee Diva / Krell system as backup with a Vandersteen Model 7 / Audio Research Ref combination for the rest of the time.
Common denominator sources would be:
Brinkmann la Grange / Breuer Dynamic 8 / EMT
Accuphase two-box CD player
Sansui TU-X1 tuner
Ninanina
03-09-2017, 19:53
Mark Levinson HQD system
I have only once heard ML, don't know what model but it was huge monoblock amps and very expensive... I can still remember that I was completely underwhelmed by the sound, didn't get on with it at all.. :(
Stratmangler
03-09-2017, 19:57
I very rarely do the lottery
However if I ever won the first thing on my list would not be hifi it would be a Porsche Boxster S...not because it's a Porsche but mainly due to the German engineering.. and the fun, of course :D
The Porsche Boxster is made in the Czech Republic in the Skoda factory :eyebrows:
hifinutt
03-09-2017, 20:28
seriously ? is that correct ?
Had a new SKoda and the build quality was better than VW, thats for sure. Marvelleous motor
Stratmangler
03-09-2017, 20:46
seriously ? is that correct ?
Nope, I got the country wrong.
It was Finland.
Production has shifted back to The Fatherland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_Boxster/Cayman
made this during w2 as wellhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Panzer-35.jpg T35:eyebrows:
walpurgis
03-09-2017, 21:02
I'd not go for a Boxter.
My tastes are more rudimentary. For fun an older Caterham 7 with an old low tech engine with carburettors that I can play with (wonder if a 2.0 twin spark Alfa engine from a 75 with a couple of big Webers could be shoehorned in? :)). For trundling about the countryside with the dog, an ex-military LWB non-turbo Land Rover, in drab matt Army Green would suit. A comfy modern MPV for carting family about too.
Anything overtly ostentatious is a definite NoNo! Regardless of wealth! :nono:
There are underlying truths which almost certainly limit the extent to which Hi-Fi can improve as the technology currently stands.
Let's assume that we pay whatever is needed for; perfect drivers, be it single, two, three or four way, absolutely flat, zero distortion and perfect phase, throughout the Xovers as well.
We still have drivers in a box, spaced apart, with different F ranges coming from different points, feeding us a signal which is itself from a mic, which captures a small angle of forward directed sound which is itself already containing some room effects from the performance room.
These latter compromises themselves are an inherent limitation which will be heard and cannot be overcome even with the above perfection.
So in the real world position we are in, the results of design aspirations are limited by this and are asymptotic to it, and we pay more and more to get nearer the driver perfection, if we are lucky, and if not we get lovely finishes and industrial design jewellery for £ks.
Stratmangler
03-09-2017, 21:09
With the idiots out there on the roads today, a T35 has great appeal :eyebrows:
With the idiots out there on the roads today, a T35 has great appeal :eyebrows:
Fuel efficiency would be an issue.
But on the plus side you are ready and able to invade Poland. Swings and roundabouts.
Stratmangler
03-09-2017, 21:55
Fuel efficiency would be an issue.
No it wouldn't - don't forget, you've won big style on The Lottery.
Stratmangler
03-09-2017, 21:57
But on the plus side you are ready and able to invade Poland. Swings and roundabouts.
I think Angela wishes this was one of her current options, with all the noise coming from Poland about proper war reparations.
No it wouldn't - don't forget, you've won big style on The Lottery.
Good point. But then if I was going to buy an armoured vehicle with my winnings I'd want something with a top speed over 35 mph.
And a bigger gun.
Stratmangler
03-09-2017, 22:22
I'd want something with a top speed over 35 mph.
And a bigger gun.
How much is a Challenger these days?
You don't need a gun - being able to drive over the stupid fecker that's just cut you up is enough of a threat as it is.
Better to have the gun and not need it than to need it and not have it. That's my philosophy.
I prefer a 'source first' strategy: ban the idiots from driving in the first place, thus you remove the source of the problem. I agree though, that your way is much more fun! :D
In all seriousness though, the current driving test is way too easy to pass, so lets the idiots through.
We need to make it tougher, designed to promote those with proper driving skills, i.e. folk who can handle their cars safely at speed, drive proficiently in all weather conditions and show awareness and anticipation/fast reactions on the road at all times, not idiots who's intention is simply to use a car as a glorified shopping trolly/school taxi, and dawdle around everywhere at 30mph!
In my experience, it's the clueless, dawdling, indecisive fuckers, who cause most of the problems, especially in town and city centres....
In short, give cars to folk who genuinely LOVE DRIVING (have a passion for it, and prove themselves as CONFIDENT DRIVERS), and who don't just see cars as another mode of transport. Then do the same with bikers and cyclists, and increase their overall proficiency.
In short, whichever mode of transport you decide to buy, you're made to be DAMNED GOOD at handling it FIRST, before getting to use it! That would remove the majority of idiots on our roads at a stroke!!
Marco.
How much is a Challenger these days?
Couldn't find a Challenger for sale (there are some Dodge Challengers, but not the same thing) but you can buy an FV436 for twenty large. Not really a tank in the traditional sense but it will squash cars just as good.
http://www.milweb.net/webvert/a2687/91384
go here and enjoy yourselves https://tanks-alot.co.uk/product/private-tank-car-crush-driving-experience/
Spectral Morn
04-09-2017, 10:43
I don't do the lottery or gamble. Pretty happy with my current set up so not interested in changing anything.
However, one of the best systems I have ever heard (on classical music) was a system at NAS a few years ago the Ensemble room, I would have that system please, including the Ensemble modified Voyd Reference and I could put my Graham Phantom on it - that is what they had fitted - stunning sound.
I have only once heard ML, don't know what model but it was huge monoblock amps and very expensive... I can still remember that I was completely underwhelmed by the sound, didn't get on with it at all.. :(
Come around and listen to mine, feeding Quad 57s. You might change your mind, but then again you might not.
Haselsh1
04-09-2017, 12:37
I would buy a house for Sue and myself as I am slightly sick of having to rent but of course the house would have to have a suitable music room.
My ex once had all the LOTO numbers, but for the wrong week, that was a double take moment.
I would buy a house with a dedicated well proportioned music room.
That more than any hi end gear, would help sort things and increase my enjoyment of the music I already have.
Come around and listen to mine, feeding Quad 57s. You might change your mind, but then again you might not.
Sounds like a good idea. Only worry if she brings a cucumber! :D
Marco.
Sounds like a good idea. Only worry if she brings a cucumber! :D
Marco.
Well at least that would be quiet - don't want any "Good Vibrations" spoiling the music!
My ex once had all the LOTO numbers, but for the wrong week, that was a double take moment.
I would buy a house with a dedicated well proportioned music room.
That more than any hi end gear, would help sort things and increase my enjoyment of the music I already have.
Jeez - what bad luck! :eek: (or should that be :doh:?)
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