Really pleased with a cheap soldering station I recently got. Never had one before using just an ordinary iron which could be a bit too hot at times.
200965161820
Was only £17 and included a free basic digital meter - and utility knife!
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Really pleased with a cheap soldering station I recently got. Never had one before using just an ordinary iron which could be a bit too hot at times.
200965161820
Was only £17 and included a free basic digital meter - and utility knife!
For Techie fanboys maybe
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Technics-S...p2056016.l4276
seems to me to be a lot of money
I'd not pay that kind of money. Personally, the Mk.II is my favourite (not sure why though). I had a mint Mk.II 1210 about five years ago for £200 off the Bay.
Decent pair of Royd Minstrel SE Speakers. Ends in a couple days.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Royd-Audio...item43cf1684ed
S.
I'm hoping this will prove to be a bargain - haven't picked it up yet.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/YAMAHA-CD-Pl...p2047675.l2557
If you get the chance grab one of LIDL's Weller type soldering guns. They do these every few months as 'Specials' and they work great. The large amount of almost instant power is brilliant for doing speaker plugs & cables which soak up the heat like mad! They're cheap and good quality. Keep an eye on their website for the 'Specials'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Kipling
Really hope nobody buys these at this price:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-UH...item3394ededb4
They were sold in the UK as an Eagle branded product (HT21 tweeter) through the seventies at less than £6 a pair.
My vote would go to YES! :stalks:Quote:
Originally Posted by ff1d1l
Aye, not a bad little haul there. Yamaha audio is always under-rated for some reason.
Well, I collected it all today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Beobloke
It's all in pretty good cosmetic condition. And all has Pat tested stickers. So that's OK then!
I haven't tried the cassette deck yet, but the cd player works, though I haven't subjected it to critical listening yet. The main attraction was the M4 amplifier - I already have a c4 preamp and was very impressed with performance.
The first thing I hooked up was the t7 tuner, I slid it into the workshop system instead of a Denon Tu 260l, which I'd always thought was rather good. Well, straight away it was obvious the Yam was in a different league - smoother but more detailed and realistic, a very worthwhile step up. AND you wouldn't believe the five station presets - this is SOOOOO good - you set them with a memory button, just like a modern tuner, BUT when you switch between them the whole tuning operation is motorised and the tuning knob and scale pointer move with ghostly precision to the new station, then un-mute. So Tuner good. Very good, in fact.
The M-4 power amp I hooked up to some little music centre speakers before risking either of my concentric darlings. None of the square buttons lit up:(. Made an ok sound with the cd player going through it, so took it down to the house to play through my Tannoys.
Here it is on the Vintage Knob site http://www.thevintageknob.org/yamaha-M-4.html
As it happens the pre in the house system at the moment is a Yamaha C-4, so the M-4 replaced the Luxkit Avance Z501 with the correct pre. Much lead swapping and critical listening later, reached the following verdicts:
M-4 is good, but not the sonic equal of the Luxkit. Sounds good in isolation, then you connect up the Luxkit and have an "oh yeah" moment. Followed by an extended meditation on self delusion.
So....the M-4...Possibly a service? Certainly the bulbs in the square buttons need fettling. A little disappointing as I was expecting great things, but the Luxkit is pretty stellar. And the Yamaha is beautifully built, whereas the Luxkit internals make my electronics guru friend hold his head in his hands.
The new C-4 preamp is flakey - balance control is unbelievably noisy, channel balance isn't equal, doesn't sound as clean as my other one. Has bulb issues too. Might do a little deoxit squirting later.
Anyone with experience of this gear, or informed opinions of it, contributions will be appreciated!