Good spot - will nab one. :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
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Good spot - will nab one. :cheers:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
PS - the first seller's 3mm version has just hit £67.50, three times what it was 6 months ago. I've heard about dynamic pricing but this is "unbelievable Jeff"!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/123624024...3ABFBMup-On8Zj
Sony Esprit:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204640245847?
This has been on for a few weeks now with no takers. Lovely bit of equipment. Asking price just too high.
i had a turntable from the esprit range. it was linear and tt slid in and out of the case. very cool. i gave it to a mate, who sadly died recently. they seem to have increased in value now...tho not that muchQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
This one?Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
https://i.ibb.co/BwXQmH5/2233997-887...-turntable.jpg
control panel is different from memory but otherwise, yes. played very well
There's a few variants on the same, it is Sony after all, nothing stayed the same for more than 6 months back then.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
probably should have kept it as it was well made, but he really enjoyed it so.... they moved away a number of years ago, and his wife phoned to say what happened..Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
just stuff, you could always get another. The lost friends are irreplaceable, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Very true. I would much rather have my music-loving friend still alive, than his collection of CDs he left me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
very true. i didnt mean it that way...Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I know - I was just agreeing with you.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Not mine, I just spotted it in an idle moment.
With an A&R P77 and an ADC magnesium headshell, it has to be a bargain at £200.
Has the earlier steel chassis, always my preference.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285801444...mis&media=COPY
And the seller is even open to offers :)
JM Lab/Focal 926 bargain. Collection only from the end of the earth though:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395323286932?
Sony TA88
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404870816482?
Used to have one of these plus two of the matching ST88 tuners which are very cute:
https://i.ibb.co/cvcQV4x/st88.jpg
Should have kept them.
He's asking way to much IMO. Sweet amp but no power at all - you'd have to pick your speakers very carefully.
Pretty tidy. I wouldn't let the distance put me off - I'd make collection part of a weekend away, Launceston looks quite nice.
all I know about it is there is a FedEx depot there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Even the worst bits of Cornwall are better than where we're from so doubt you can go wrong.
I would tend to agree with you, if I hadn't visited Penzance. Every other street corner was populated with what appeared to be homeless bagheads, some of which were sufficiently sentient to openly beg, the rest either unconscious or regarding their surroundings with a 'thousand yard stare'. The public toilets all had signs warning of discarded syringes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
And when we tried to leave, their weird road system did its very best to keep us there. Rather like Jim Carrey in The Truman Show.
Sounds exactly like round here except with palm trees and better weather. Oh and they closed our public toilets years ago because they cost money that could be better spent on lesbians or something. They're a band practice room now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yeah I don't think it'll be lesbians, they really don't cost much to maintain. But disabled, cyclists, ethnic minorities, any group specific enough to have its own 'community', lots of opportunities for public money intended for wheelchair access, cycle lanes and community centres to go walkabout.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
In Preston it's the cycling (fraternity? community?) that's had the most money chucked at it. Much of the dual carriageway running through the city is now 2-way single carriageway, with the other side devoted to 2 wheels. And this pic shows just a small part of what they've done here. All they need now is some cyclists willing to use it.
https://cdn.prgloo.com/media/f874de1...68&height=1452
just a massive waste of money. The road up to work has cycle lanes both sides, rarely see them used. Last time I saw a cyclist on one was months back and he was going the wrong way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
They're all on the pavement, weaving in and out between the pedestrians at reckless speeds.
you wanna check out brighton if you like cycle lanes,its mental!
I noticed on the main junction I cross every day they've upgraded the 'Walk' sign to this:
https://i.ibb.co/M9FD0gg/green-pedes...s-AN3-C0-H.jpg
Why? In what circumstance would it be safe for a pedestrian to cross and not for a cyclist to do so?
When would it be safe for the cyclist to cross but not the pedestrian?
Just a colossal waste of my money.
Especially as the cyclists will completely ignore it anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Apart from the small issue of death/serious injury, it's all stacked in the cyclists' favour - if a bike and a car had a coming-together and it was the car driver's fault, his insurers would have him in a world of financial pain. Whereas if it was the cyclist's fault he'd just do a runner. Cheaper to abandon his thousand quid (probably stolen) bike than cough up for repairs to the car.
Though I do appreciate that these will be the minority, and most cyclists are responsible adults with adequate insurance cover.
Worse than that - cyclists are not subject to the Highway Code or of the associated laws.
As displayed by an incident a few years ago when a cyclist killed a pedestrian, the cyclist could not be charged with manslaughter, and was eventually charged with some arcane law going back to the 18th century concerning horse riding!
Not ebay but check out these speakers:
https://skyfiaudio.com/en-gb/product...ith-30-woofers
They've got a lot of pretty tidy speakers but don't get your hopes up, they're in America.
And with a 30" woofer, I bet they fart and belch like a trooper! ;)
Marco’s Tannoys earned the nickname “wardrobes” but those take it to the next level and then some!
The bigger the woofer the better the speaker, ceteris paribus.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Cannot agree - a 30" speaker cone is not rigid enough. Better to have four 15" units wired in a series parallel combination: will have the same effective diameter and move as much air, yet be stiffer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence001
It's like they got two confessional boxes from an old church and turned them into speakers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
If you're finding that an increasing number of mini items are populating your shelves this looks like quite a neat solution for not a lot of money.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/176401795...Bk9SR_SptOL_Yw
Tidy Ruark Prologue going cheap if you're near Welsh Wales:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156258127540?
Pioneer SPEC4 power amp very tasty:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/234957676048?
After hearing some Canton speakers at the last NEBO, and then Ken (Qwin) buying some from abroad, I thought these might be worth posting. A couple of scuffs which could probably be fixed cheaply, otherwise they look very tidy. Not the same as Ken's but similar.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166849925...Bk9SR6Tgq6OoZA
That's a lot of speaker for £600Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Lovely and fair price too given the condition. Can't be many left like that
If I had a use for them I'd have them:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/135181689511?
Look great, but the amp doesn't have a lot of welly (22 wpc). My mate has a TA-2650, which looks almost exactly the same and makes 43 wpc. He has it going into some B&W DM603s I gave him, and the combination isn't great. Not horrible, just very un-dynamic with weedy bass. And I know they weren't like that with my old MF Electra E100.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
There's a cassette deck that will go with them, and if put together with some speakers that don't ask much would make a handsome little vintage set up for not a lot of money.
Those Cantons have been re-listed, now 100 quid less than before.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166915842...Bk9SR9zP65KxZAQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Big speakers depreciate like big cars :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Room size and WAF I suppose, such a shame. I bet they are total killer.
Accuphase pre and monos:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325854755287?
For those still bogged down in 1980s UK Boutique:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/135210705118?
Finishes tomorrow.
Don't judge a book by its cover. ;) Onix were (are?) a very good-sounding brand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Tannoy DMT System 12 - lot of speaker for the money:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/286008048773?
KEF kit speakers. Pal of mine had these - smooth, rich sound, you could do a lot worse for a lot more money
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235718188053?
I knew someone who had built Kef kit 3 speakers with a concrete enclosure. The enclosures were clad externally with veneered chipboard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
They weighed a ton, and were stood on stands made from Dexion strip; which somewhat let the side down!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266983868930?
You never see these - Wharfedale CRS9 - from the early 1990s.
I had the CRS3 for a while, the little ones, they were really good. Always wondered what the big ones would be like.
Sony APM77 - lovely. Top dollar but still very tempting.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305719677841?
I have a kidney going spare here. Yours for just £3,750 :)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204892006...tHKwL9k&edge=1
Ok, not cheap, but compared to the £14k+ list price, not bad at all. But they are rather large...