Some pictures of my oldies...

[gullaz]

Sorry, not the best quality.

My little Fisher 30A monos:

http://imageshack.com/a/img922/7301/K5r86B.jpg

[gullaz]

Citation I preamp:

http://hifi70.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/citcab.jpg

Inside:
http://hifi70.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/citintern2.jpg

[drSM]

very cool.
what speakers Simone?

[Firebottle]

These are the sort of pictures we enjoy :drool:

Some very good condition vintage kit, good show :)

PS the pictures are fine.

[agk]

Gorgeous. Thank you for sharing. I also am curious about your loudspeakers.

[farflungstar]

The citation is drop dead gorgeous... Drool...

[Barry]

The citation is drop dead gorgeous... Drool...

Agreed - despite having a lot of un-necessary features. Beautiful build quality though!

The little Fisher monoblocks look good as well.

[jandl100]

Nice.
Tone controls - a proper preamp!

[montesquieu]

Nice.
Tone controls - a proper preamp!

And rolloff/turnover. None of your minimalist crap that sends people off buggering around with cables.

[Barry]

And rolloff/turnover. None of your minimalist crap that sends people off buggering around with cables.

I don't bugger about with cables, nor do I use filters or anything other than RIAA equalisation.

[walpurgis]

I don't bugger about with cables, nor do I use filters or anything other than RIAA equalisation.

More or less the same here. I like good quality cables, but don't get obssessed over them. No filters. I don't even bother experimenting with cartridge loading and never get poor results.

[montesquieu]

I don't bugger about with cables, nor do I use filters or anything other than RIAA equalisation.

if you have any mono at all you almost certainly have some records that would sound better with tweaking to the equalisation.

[montesquieu]

Not mega expensive for a preamp if the last ebay sale is anything to go by ... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Harman-Kardon-Citation-1-Tube-Preamp-Control-center-/201206102066?nma=true&si=a93Jiv9BzV5ucoIrlcEFJVpcfbA%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 I might just look out for one to play with.

[Barry]

if you have any mono at all you almost certainly have some records that would sound better with tweaking to the equalisation.

Why, if they were recorded using RIAA?

[montesquieu]

Why, if they were recorded using RIAA?

The problem is that RIAA wasn't consistently applied across the board till well into the stereo era. I had a mono record from 1964 on yesterday that clearly responded to tweaking.

[walpurgis]

I wonder how accurately RIAA is/was applied at any time.

[Barry]

The problem is that RIAA wasn't consistently applied across the board till well into the stereo era. I had a mono record from 1964 on yesterday that clearly responded to tweaking.

Well I've got some 1954 mono recordings of EMI Angel by Furtwangler on EMI-Angel that might qualify. But most of my mono recordings are from 1963 or later, recorded by either EMI or Decca, and all were available in stereo.

[montesquieu]

Well I've got some 1954 mono recordings of EMI Angel by Furtwangler on EMI-Angel that might qualify. But most of my mono recordings are from 1963 or later, recorded by either EMI or Decca, and all were available in stereo.

Those are the least likely to need it, if there was a stereo version. (Though as Geoff says RIAA can often be a bit variable even into the stereo era, I find DG recordings sometimes spectacularly so).

For sure I regularly find that it's not just early 50s microgroove that benefits from tweaking, stuff right into the 60s, cut and pressed on later stereo kit, can still be badly equalised. Often a recording you think is just a bad recording, flat or dull or edgy can come to life with a few subtle changes.