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[yellowsub]

Hi everyone

I've just joined the forum.

I've been collecting and listening to vinyl since I was around 3 years old, back in the early 1970's. It's been a long trip from a Chad Valley Close and Play plastic record player to a Gyrodec, with a detour in the 1990's for a CD binge, but it's been a blast.

I still have every vinyl record I ever purchased - except for the 3 albums I (regrettably) sold in 1986, but I replaced those with mint 1st pressings last year, so I'm complete again! :)

Nice to meet you all!

[Spectral Morn]

Welcome to AoS :cool:

[walpurgis]

Hello John, Welcome to AOS.

Tell us what music you like and what other equipment you use in your Hi-Fi system as well as the Gyrodec.

Feel free to join in the chat, it's a friendly place.


Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.

[Barry]

Welcome to AoS John.

Do you still play your Chad Valley discs on your Gyrodeck? ;)

Enjoy the Forum
Barry

[yellowsub]

Hello John, Welcome to AOS.

Tell us what music you like and what other equipment you use in your Hi-Fi system as well as the Gyrodec.

Feel free to join in the chat, it's a friendly place.


Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.

Hi Geoff

Thank you for the warm welcome!

It's probably easier to list the music I don't like :)
I mostly don't listen to: opera, chart pop from 1983 onwards, techno, rappers, or anything which is too self-indulgent

For example, over the last few days I’ve been enjoying Brian Eno's Here Come The Warm Jets (1st UK pressing on Island), Black Sabbath Vol 4 (1st UK pressing on Vertigo), Wire's Pink Flag (1st UK on Harvest) and Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1st UK mono on Columbia).

I generally prefer the sound of early UK vinyl pressings, or Japanese SHM-SACDs. Doesn’t always have to be old though :)

My HiFi system currently comprises:

Turntables:
Gyrodec Mk III with Rega RB300 (to be replaced by a Jelco SA-750D this week) with AT-440MLb and Denon DL-103D (I got Van Den Hul to retip and replace the cantilever) and Pro-Ject Tube Box DS tube pre-amp
Rega Planar 3 (1980s era) with RB300, AT-440MLa and NAD PP-2 pre-amp

Amplifier:
NAD T-741 (useful for its discrete 5.1 inputs)

Speakers:
5 x Ruark Swordsman (1980s vintage) in 5.1 configuration
Ruark Log-Rhythm subwoofer

Tape:
Revox A77 reel to reel
Pioneer CT-S550S cassette deck
AIWA HD-S200 Portable DAT recorder

SACD/Redbook CD/Blu-Ray/DVD/DVD-Audio:
Oppo BDP-95E

Minidisc:
Sony MZ-RH1 Hi-MD portable recorder

Solid state recorders:
Korg MR-2 hi resolution recorder (mostly record to DSD)

Headphone amp:
Oppo HA-2 SE DAC and headphone amp (mostly use for native DSD playback)

Cheers!
John

[yellowsub]

Welcome to AoS John.

Do you still play your Chad Valley discs on your Gyrodeck? ;)

Enjoy the Forum
Barry

Hi Barry

Haha! The nursery rhyme records bundled with the player? I remember those! But only barely…

As a young kid, I actually tossed them aside immediately and raided my parents’ collection of singles instead!

I was particularly fond of Del Shannon’s Runaway, George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord, The Small Faces Sha La La La Lee (yeah!), Roy Orbison’s Oh Pretty Woman and a bunch of 1960s guitar instrumentals. I shudder to think what that Chad Valley deck did to those!

No idea what happened to the bundled Chad Valley records though. :)

Cheers!
John