What does the "R" stand for or have that makes it so much more expensive?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
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What does the "R" stand for or have that makes it so much more expensive?Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
This might help [emoji4]Quote:
Originally Posted by Jac Hawk
https://theartofsound.net/forum/show...-Mk1-Mk2-amp-R
think it was meant to stand for a return to the classic style..
Rare item, Pioneer PL-12D original dust cover. Good ones are very seldom seen for sale these days.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/293630250243?ul_noapp=true
I have one and it has a TT hanging underneath it :)Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
It think it stood for 'revised' or 'revisited'. It was a return to the traditional J-shaped SME arms of the sixties and seventies, but used a thin walled stainless steel arm tube and a much improved counterweight decoupling arrangement. There were some other minor changes, but the most important was, sadly, the retention of the nylon 'knife-edge' bearing saddle. If the latter is replaced with a bronze bearing, the 3009R and 3012R arms represent a culmination of the 3000 series development, and are now highly desirable. Since SME have decided to stop making them, stop supplying spares, stop maintaining them, and stop selling any of their tonearms :doh: - that now makes them rare.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jac Hawk
Looks like an unmolested Thorens TD160 good price..in Hertfordshire...any good to anyone???
https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-ster...eck/1377131132
a bargain if the photo is anything to go byQuote:
Originally Posted by mad-moon
I’ll be surprised if it’s still for sale, I find most sellers take days to delete their listing if something is sold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jac Hawk
Too many vultures on gumtree these days if anything is going cheap, anything that comes up near me where I’ve tried to contact the seller seems to be virtually sold within minutes of being listed.
Not eBay but bookface marketplace ...
A complete Naim system, £3k or ask for individual prices
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I was one of the first to call him up...he said he was taking bids of £60 upwards ....not what it said on the ad...too good to be true!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jac Hawk
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Not ebay...but this is in the North East.... reasonably priced Atacama Equinox hifi rack....not mine by the way...just spotted it on gumtree
https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-ster...ck-/1378099306
Might go cheap especially considering the collection address. :lol:
I also wouldn't check out other items for sale with other present.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAQIN-MS-...wAAOSwPq1e-z83
Rubber Knickers Ltd....OoooerrrQuote:
Originally Posted by flapland
good deck and arm here,hmmm do we know the seller???
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toshiba-S...kAAOSwNItfAh-U
Not much guessing is there? :doh:
Just as well he s got no dodgy other items , like yer other man lol
maybe just a few sub machine guns :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by tapid
Just won these -
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Very-Rare...rdt=true&rt=nc
They look interesting.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman91
Bidding will fly on those!Quote:
Originally Posted by HD Goofnut
If they were the original DM70 and not the DM70C, I would be interested.
Servicing might be difficult, though I believe the German company, whose name escapes me, that can service Quad 57s (they bought the assembly jigs from Quad) can do it.
Yes, it will be interesting to see what they fetch.
Blimey - went for £380. I was expecting much more than that.
Wow, that was cheap. Replacing the veneer wouldn’t cost much to get done professionally. Bet the seller is a bit upset with the outcome. That said, if the veneer is doing that because of water damage/damp the speakers might need quite a bit of work.
I didn't think they sounded all that good at a lecture on Sound Reproduction ant Central Poly in about '75, and again in '85 at a friends, and probably rather dated now.
I think they are more collectible than anything else, like the pregnant Penguins. I always felt B&W speakers didn’t live up to the hype.
The Bowers and Wilkins DM2a and earlier DM3 are very good speakers - I use a pair of DM2as in my second system. I have no experience of any of the later or current models.
The DM70s were intended to replace the P2H speakers (which used an unreliable Ionfane plasma tweeter). The problem with the DM70 comes with trying to integrate a dipole driver (the electrostatic tweeter) with low frequency woofer in an enclosure that has a largely cardioid polar pattern.
They would make an interesting project to work on: I believe we have one Member here who has refurbished such a pair.
When I was an Amstrad-owning young lad, this was the ultimate object of desire - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1980s-Ams...4AAOSw9-ldwJot
For some reason, the want has never gone away, and this one's £40 and just down the road from me. For god's sake, please someone talk me out of it, I beg you...:hmm:
Adam is it yours yet :lol:
Nah, I bought it for £25 [emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by Audio Al
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I was kidding it’s still there [emoji23]
:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Puffin
Only a small amount of time left - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kenwood-T...a85d%7Ciid%3A1
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Quad-Fm4-....c100005.m1851
and
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Quad-Fm3-....c100005.m1851
Is this guy serious? :eek:
Japanese prices for vintage British gear are very steep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
At least ten times what it's worth. Japanese though, they have a thing for British kit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Arghh, just threw a dozen of those away in the bin !Quote:
Originally Posted by Puffin
I'm not even going to click on those links. I'd rather twist my ankle and fall down the stairs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
S.
No need - the Japanese seller is asking ~ £1,000 apiece.Quote:
Originally Posted by southall-1998_mk2
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Originally Posted by Barry
Pathetic. He clearly doesn't deserve to have them!
S.
Why do people do this? I mean I know why, money, but how many people can they rip off in this way? Are there really that many out there that are that gullible they don’t bother to check ended ebay auctions worldwide, hifishark, forums et cetera for prices.
For something specialist like hi-fi I'd guess not many.Quote:
Originally Posted by HD Goofnut
Wow! So the mentality is, if it’s expensive and on eBay then it must be worth the BIN price?
Maybe the point is being missed, it's quality British Hi-Fi, generally in mint condition, being offered to Japanese buyers and prices out there for such are high.
Funnily enough, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-T...UAAOSwi-dbvmr9Quote:
Originally Posted by tapid
I found a dozen of these in a bin in Hampstead.....
Disappeared Don . You sure you found them in Hampstead ?. We aint like that :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by donmarrese
I have been known to pick stuff up on the streets of Hampstead I am afraid. I also left a few things outside the front door for people to take and they always go.
Not managed to find a dumped Decca Gold mind you.
:)
It's amazing just what people throw out in West Hampstead and also in Camden, London: flat screen TVs; kettles; steam irons; hi-fi mini-systems; CDs; DVDs etc.
I could say it is because they are too lazy to take them to charity shop where some good can be made of them. However it may be the charity shops do not want, or cannot do the required PAT testing for the electrical goods.