theschoolmaster
12-03-2019, 17:38
Hi. Apologies if this gets a bit rambling and boring - if so, please skip to the last line and send me a curt message telling me to not do it again.
I am a retired teacher (hence the nickname), and I started my interest in hi-fi (I wish there was a better term for it than that!) when I was at university - I am embarrassed to admit that was over 40 years ago. Then, as an impoverished student (though by no means as bad as it is for students these days), I could not afford really good equipment; I remember looking at a pair of Quad IIs and Quad 22 in a specialist's shop window and drooling- I could have afforded the cardboard box, but not much else. Then life got in the way and expensive hobbies like audio had to take a back seat. Some 15 years ago my father died, and left me some money. I decided I would "re-visit" the 70s, and buy some of the great stuff that was around then, and specifically equipment that I had set my heart on at the time. It isn't all necessarily the best that there was then; nor is all of it likely to match up to the top-notch gear that is available now - but I've always wanted it! So it is that I now have a Thorens TD125 MkII, with SME MkV arm and Benz Micro Ace MC cartridge, a TD125 MkI with an SME 3009 (non-improved) with Shure V15 MkIV cartridge, Quad 44, Quad 34 and Quad 33 pre-amps, 405 MkII and 303 power amps, Quad 22 valve pre-amp, and two other tonearms: Acos Lustre GST1 and Audio Technica AT1005 MkII. I have just embarked on a project restoring a Sugden Connoisseur Craftsman III turntable (I have three in various states of disrepair, and am hoping I have enough working bits to make one very good one), which I am going to pair with the Quad 22 and two valve monoblocks which I am building (hopefully I will post more info about them in due course). But one of the key components that I fell in love with all those years ago was the Audio Technica AT-1007 tonearm. I have been searching for one for a few years now, and excitedly bid on one that appeared recently on eBay: but I was too late upping my bid in the last few seconds and lost it. So shortly in the WANTED section I will plead for anyone who has any idea where I might get one to come forward!
That's me. Regardless of progress with securing the AT-1007 I will hope to be a regular visitor/browser to this excellent forum.
Best wishes
David
I am a retired teacher (hence the nickname), and I started my interest in hi-fi (I wish there was a better term for it than that!) when I was at university - I am embarrassed to admit that was over 40 years ago. Then, as an impoverished student (though by no means as bad as it is for students these days), I could not afford really good equipment; I remember looking at a pair of Quad IIs and Quad 22 in a specialist's shop window and drooling- I could have afforded the cardboard box, but not much else. Then life got in the way and expensive hobbies like audio had to take a back seat. Some 15 years ago my father died, and left me some money. I decided I would "re-visit" the 70s, and buy some of the great stuff that was around then, and specifically equipment that I had set my heart on at the time. It isn't all necessarily the best that there was then; nor is all of it likely to match up to the top-notch gear that is available now - but I've always wanted it! So it is that I now have a Thorens TD125 MkII, with SME MkV arm and Benz Micro Ace MC cartridge, a TD125 MkI with an SME 3009 (non-improved) with Shure V15 MkIV cartridge, Quad 44, Quad 34 and Quad 33 pre-amps, 405 MkII and 303 power amps, Quad 22 valve pre-amp, and two other tonearms: Acos Lustre GST1 and Audio Technica AT1005 MkII. I have just embarked on a project restoring a Sugden Connoisseur Craftsman III turntable (I have three in various states of disrepair, and am hoping I have enough working bits to make one very good one), which I am going to pair with the Quad 22 and two valve monoblocks which I am building (hopefully I will post more info about them in due course). But one of the key components that I fell in love with all those years ago was the Audio Technica AT-1007 tonearm. I have been searching for one for a few years now, and excitedly bid on one that appeared recently on eBay: but I was too late upping my bid in the last few seconds and lost it. So shortly in the WANTED section I will plead for anyone who has any idea where I might get one to come forward!
That's me. Regardless of progress with securing the AT-1007 I will hope to be a regular visitor/browser to this excellent forum.
Best wishes
David