Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

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Originally Posted by Ninanina

Well done Paul on your purchase... sounds like a bargain to me :)

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Thanks Bev, having gone through the lot, I would think to buy these from a second hand classical specialist would cost around £200-250. Some of the DECCAs I've seen online for £10-15 as tey are quite rare. I'm off on Friday, so it will be classic spinning time :)

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Originally Posted by PaulStewart

Just o update you Martin and others, The albums arrived from Lintone today, well packed and undamaged. Of the 40, 5 were Classics for Pleasure and went straight into my charity shop pile. Of the other 35 thiese where mainly mint to mint minus. I have lots of Liszt, Ravell, Puccini many of which are classic DECCAs, there are also many good DGs, EMIs, RCA Read seals and 3 CBS Masterworks series records. I have a Callas version of Tosca and many many others. All this for 11.50 plus postage, which works out 0.61p per record. Even the 5 tat ones are mint. Absolute rudy bargain, well worth the punt :)

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Result!!!! Very pleased for you

These are quite good for their size

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Keswick-Au...p2056016.l4276

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

Since when is a Garrard 4HF worth £620? I've seen them go for around £30!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Ga...item3f5024dc4f

And now there's one for £1800

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Garrard-4H...3D271927532623

Are people mad?

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I blame jah shaka :D

S.

Never heard of him. looks like a piece of crap

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Originally Posted by struth

Never heard of him. looks like a piece of crap

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His turntable of choice may be suspect and he isn't my producer of choice... BUT... he is Huoooge in digi dub...

this wiki page is only a minimal start to his influence:- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jah_Shaka ( myself I prefer a bit of Pablo or Joe Gibbs, non digi I knows...)

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Originally Posted by southall-1998

I blame jah shaka :D

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As to whether you can blame Jah Shaka specifically or not, I don't know, but there are some of us who are old enough to remember the Ska/Reggae scene of the sixties. The home sound system of choice for the Jamaican immigrants, was the Blaupunkt radiogram, the best of which were fitted with a Garrard 4HF. Many of these in turn,made their way to the fledgling UK sound systems of the day. In 68/69 I went to the wedding of Earl Luke, who later went on to own WEM Reecords (World Enterprise Music). The sound system, Count Rose - From the North had been brought over to play the wedding and they had 2 4HFs and a wall of 15" JBLs. The argument goes that if you want the authentic sound of Ska, then playback on a Garrard 4HF is essential, though a lot of sound systems used 301s and even LAB 80s.

Very nice Theta DS Pro Progeny DAC at £230 or offer. That's cheap for a fine sounding unit like this. TosLink & Coax inputs only. I had one and was impressed. Not much around to touch one at this money.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2014036552...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Lenco GL88 £320 delivered.

not ebay and I don't know if it's a good price but I haven't seen one before and they seem to be well regarded so thought I would post in case of interest to anyone.

http://webshop.cashconverters.co.uk/...etro-turntable

not strictly hifi and not ebay but for anyone looking for a cheap media player Ebuyer have the HP 260 G1 with Windows 8 for £99. I asked bespoke to beat my price and they came up with £85.91. Also quidco have 15% cashback for beat my price deals on bespoke for the next 5 days so if cashback turns up it will be about £73 delivered which seems a very good price.

http://www.ebuyer.com/702840-hp-260-...7219&pkw=&pmt=

https://www.bespokeoffers.co.uk/consumer/beatmyprice/

http://www.quidco.com/bespoke-offers...=logout&fr=top