just couldnt live with the name:doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
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just couldnt live with the name:doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Very tidy NAD C370 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/386439609409?
Technics SU-MC300 battery power head amp https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126239551551?
good vintage piece price is acceptable.
It's probably very decent. I had the EPC-305MC cartridge that was one of the series intended for use with it and they were lovely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Way overpriced!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266585023...Bk9SR7ywkPGXYw
Just a bit! - If the cabs had been sanded down and re-varnished to a good standard then maybe £200 would be fair - the B200 drivers are worth a bit on their own. But they haven't even bothered to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
I believe they are the SP1022 large magnet version of the KEF B200 as originally used in the KEF Cadenza model. They are fairly easy to come by.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
when I said 'a bit' I meant it literally :)Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Don't see these Esprit components up for sale often:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335201322853?
NOS. Edwards Audio 'Apprentice TT' turntables available at less than £300 including (bent acrylic sheet) dust cover. Can't be bad for the money, uses some Rega parts I believe.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394988257....c100667.m2042
A little 'off the cuff' humour? :)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305284795...Bk9SR7DIuvygYw
This is rare: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125954192...Bk9SR7LIuvygYw
I wonder if anybody has SQ quadrophonic sources?
A bit pricey! I'd guess anyone who needs one would already have the one they bought new in 1974 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Supra hum blocker. You don't see these often.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276282561...&segname=11021
I'm thinking of taking a punt on this for my second system as I already have one and like it. In good working condition they normally go for about £700. But...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134892668....c101506.m1851
Is it likely to be a relatively easy fix by someone competent? The last thing I need is some landfill to add to my growing amplifier collection.
Depends what is wrong with it, and if parts are still available. But I would have thought any decent repair engineer would be able to fix it for you.
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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
contact mf and ask them if they still service/repair a5's. and cost. might work out like getting a near new one
I would prefer to use John Sampson at JS Audio. He is an ex-MF engineer, and has a good rep with repairs/upgrades to MF kit. Or maybe just ask Alan Firebottle to have a play with it.
In any case I would not bid much on it, and there are already quite a few bids on it. I'll keep an eye on it, see how it goes.
yeah i just meant if they do repair etc then you know parts are availableQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
A question - is there some way i can see how much items sold for on Ebay? With an amp I was looking at a couple of weeks ago, the bidding went past what I was prepared to shell out pretty quickly, so I stopped looking. It has now re-appeared with a BIN price of £450 :eek: (due to previous auction-winner being a time waster).
Just curious.
search for the amp type. then top left click on advanced. tick the completed items, or sold items depending on what you want and search again. the title will still be in.. it should show all recent sales in green i think..
completed is ones where money passes hands etc. sold is nt i think
I think it is the other way round? Completed just ran the course with no sale and sold...sold?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
okay looked it up
Completed is everything that sold or did not sell and where the auction or BIN listing has ended but is still visible on the site.
Sold is just the stuff that sold and where the listing is still visible on the site.
yeah but if the price is in green in completed it sold and paid
yes since 'completed' also includes all the sold items. Which I didn't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
I only ever search on 'sold' anyway. That's where to get the price someone was actually willing to pay without trawling through what didn't sell too.
Thanks guys, doing what you said i found the item in question (Musical Fidelity A5). The bids went to £463 for this non-working unit (just £90 less than my functioning and cosmetically perfect example cost me). But the winning bidder backed out I guess, maybe got caught up in a bidding war then came to his senses.
On a buy it now for £450, about 300 quid more than I would have risked on it.
Not worth it even though Alan could probably fix it in ten minutes - lots of good working amps for less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Wharfedale CRS3 - I used to have some of these many years ago - excellent small speakers totally under the radar:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166569900...QAAOSwVm9ltNMy
Remind me of my old Delta 30’s,
no front port like these though, these look much better.
Remember ‘upgrading’ my Delta 30’s on the advice of a mate,
swapping in a Mundorf capacitor and shoe polishing the paper bass unit on the ‘Comet Special’ Delta 30’s.
Happy days.
Delta 30 were terrible my brother had some which I had to fix. No crossover, they ran that cheapo driver full range.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
Doping it with shoe polish probably did help!
back in the days when leather was for the rich:eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
Doesn't even have any records in it, what a bargain
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115969331...Bk9SR4Ct7-OvYw
a vgood plus with vgood plus discs from '68 uk only costs 250...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
You can buy a brand new sample for £50 from Amazon!
So I could buy that vintage sleeve then get a new copy from Amazon complete with inserts to put into the sleeve. But then I've chucked £8050 at the idea, so it's starting to look like poor vfm. Anyway I bought a new copy about three years ago, cost me less then £30.
Who cares about the vintage sleeve - would it make the records sound better?
The kind of person you try to avoid at parties, probably. Makes no sense to me, it doesn't even look good, just a dog-eared bit of cardboard :scratch:Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
The type that usually seek me out... Run, RUN.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I don't go to those sort of parties. In fact I go to very few these days - you have to drive there, which means I can't drink.
This is tidy with the end cheeks and that. Price is reasonable.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204619803204?
Somebody has gone to some trouble with those end cheeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
quite tidy...
Not Ebay, but still looks like a bit of a bargain
https://www.eliteaudiouk.com/product...itors-rrp-2999
That's quite tempting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Thought it was a washing machine when I first looked!:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Looking further, there are a couple of places selling this model brand new for £949 and £999. I'd still pick the Elite Audio one though because it's been run in. Reviews suggest they sound a bit shit when new.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
And Elite Audio was the firm that offered me £1400 for that Audion Silver Night amp when I couldn't get more than £900 anywhere else, so might be good folk to deal with.
A great price on a new Rega Exact cartridge £185 - I was really tempted, but don't need yet another cartridge
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256431769...id=14043999892
Looks like the seller came to his senses. Or his dad did.Quote:
Originally Posted by willbewill
I thought about buying one of these late last year. From memory they were around £20 at the time. Good job they're not in the "basket" that calculates RPI since they seem to go up a few quid every week. I'm guessing that some audiophile website has reviewed them as being the best thing since the last best thing...
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114490464...3ABFBMno7028Vj
On that same page is another seller flogging what appears to be the same product (but in red, clear or black) for less than 20 quid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete The Cat