A Garrard 2025TC was my very first deck!
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A Garrard 2025TC was my very first deck!
I've 'experienced' a couple of these myself in the distant past. Horrendous!Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Oh yes, I ripped mine from an old Dansette music centre! Nasty, and had a ceramic cartridge too.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
My first proper deck was a Connoisseur BD1.
Here's an interesting thing that may slip by relatively unnoticed. A pair of Philips motional feedback speakers - They're relatively unknown & the title and description don't do these speakers justice at all. They'd make a great second system or a cheap computer system with a volume controlled DAC, as they're active. No foam rot, as they have rubber surrounds!
3-way actives with a 40 watt amp on the bass and 20 watts covering the mid/treble. They sound great and proved too expensive to make, so weren't on the market for all that long.
Nice price so far and not long to go!
Snap !Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Think my first was also a Garrard
Lovely - and collection in Newbury. I'm bidding!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo
Bit harsh!Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
The 2025TC was actually one of Garrard's first lightweight tonearm efforts and is much less of a groove-grinder than some of its predecessors.
If you find yourself with a few spare pounds and a few spare hours at some point, try buying one and giving it a once-over. Then fit it with a Sonotone 9TAHC cartridge with a nice new stylus, plug it into an amp that has a proper ceramic cartridge input (not just into a line input) and be prepared for a surprise....:eyebrows:
Jeez... What would you be using them for? :)Quote:
Lovely - and collection in Newbury. I'm bidding!
Marco.
These are the baby brothers of the original Phillips RH541 (I believe that was the model No.), which sounded quite astonishing. All the Phillips MF speakers sounded pretty remarkable for their size and used very good quality drive units.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
The most famous MF speaker is of course the Bose 901, which caused a huge stir when the first model was released in the seventies. Although you could never describe them as 'neutral', even today the way they can shake the ground with powerful bass that extends flat to around 20Hz., is spectular, all the more so coming from such a small box (they are the only Bose speaker I've ever wanted to own mind you).
Just come back from a couple of days at the Caernarvon Arms down there...delicious food:)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT