Originally Posted by
mikeyb
Got me flummoxed too, your new Decca is exactly 5mv as it was originally outputting 7 but John fixed that.
I'll be glad when I get an amp sorted as the last 3 months or so with HiFi 'issues' had just about finished me.
It went like this....
Buy a Zyx Fuji at great price or so I thought, turn down an offer to make an instant £130 profit from the bidder I beat for it.
Sell my Zyx R100 to Alan
Decca in cupboard as not doing well in Vivant.
Zyx Fuji turns out to be faulty. Send it back for refund.
Bring Decca back out, still not full output on Vivant. Should have kept the Zyx R100.
Buy Rega Carbon for £18 as backup.
Send Decca to John Wright, service and calibration at a cost of £90, on top of the buy cost of £395.
Get Decca back from John with nothing really wrong with it other than adjusting the output. Still not good on the Vivant.
Getting close to selling the Turntable and vinyl for the third or fourth time.
Get the offer of another Zyx R100 (low output version). It arrives and sounds perfect, change of luck at last. Maybe I'll keep my turntable after all.
Alan offers to take my Vivant back to upgrade it and check it with the Decca at the same time, I then decide to borrow an expensive valve integrated with a view to buy, so decide to hold onto the Vivant until after the demo next week. It won't be sent to Alan until after Xmas now as I don't want to be without vinyl over Xmas unless Alan can upgrade it next week and have it back to me before Saturday. I might PM him [emoji6] [emoji4]
Sold my TQ Claymore Amp ( big loss in financial but not pleasure terms )
Sold the Decca Gold. ( slight loss )
Sold my PMC speakers. ( big loss in financial but not pleasure terms)
So all I need now is an Integrated Amp or Pre Amp to pair with my EWA M-50 Power Amp, still undecided yet. Thanks to wee tee cee I'm lusting after valves [emoji848] [emoji23]