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14-05-2010, 10:23
Rare Bird

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beobloke

Yep, I agree - great little tuner. In fact, guess who its new owner is..........;)

I've owned most of Quantum Electronics output but never seen any 205 monoblocks. Also, does anyone know if the ST100's mooted bigger brother, the ST-150, ever made it into production?

'205' are very rare now, i paid a forunte for a pair 20 odd years ago.At the time i was using '102' Pre/ '402' PSU/'207DA' Dual active Power..also had a '202' kit aswell. I never ever saw the later new styling 'ST150' just the 'ST-100'. I put the tuner up as i thought Neil (DL) might have took it up being into tooners, but well done adam, like i said in the vintage communications thread ''the best kept secrets are the bargins''
14-05-2010, 10:29
Rare Bird

http://www.gbaudio.co.uk/data/quantum.htm

My '102' pre control knobs wernt the same at these pictured, mine were black nylon affair, the press buttons were same tho. Theres seems to be a lot of text missing on the rear aswell.Maybe this was available in kit form aswell as the '202'!

Adam PM
14-05-2010, 12:18
Beobloke

Andre - thanks for the PM!

The Quantum stuff was available in kit form before they changed the names and offered them fully built. I have some data tucked away at home but if I recall correctly, it was the C1 preamp kit that became the 101 and then the 102, and the P2 power amp kit became the 202.
14-05-2010, 15:35
Marco

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Finally, I'm not sure if it's OK for this thread, as I didn't buy them on eBay, but these mysteriously removed a tenner from my wallet and deposited themselves in the car when I was at the dump last week - Goodmans Magisters, with proper 15" bass drivers!

You tell 'em, Adam - anything less than a pair of 15-inchers makes you a pee-soaked weenie-boy! :eyebrows:

Marco.
14-05-2010, 16:05
Rare Bird

I've only got 8 incher but it does the job :lol:
14-05-2010, 16:37
Marco

If it's got a wide contact surface area, you're ok! :lolsign:

Marco.
14-05-2010, 17:52
Spectral Morn

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andre

'205' are very rare now, i paid a forunte for a pair 20 odd years ago.At the time i was using '102' Pre/ '402' PSU/'207DA' Dual active Power..also had a '202' kit aswell. I never ever saw the later new styling 'ST150' just the 'ST-100'. I put the tuner up as i thought Neil (DL) might have took it up being into tooners, but well done adam, like i said in the vintage communications thread ''the best kept secrets are the bargins''

I saw it but my eye is on Japanese tuners only for the time being. A European tuner mega review will probably not happen as frankly this Japanese one is a bid enough task to put me off doing another...though never say never.

Same seller was selling a Saba but they can have major issues so I steered clear.

Regards D S D L
14-05-2010, 17:58
Barry

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marco

If it's got a wide contact surface area, you're ok! :lolsign:

Marco.

Size isn't everything, but as the late, great Gilbert Briggs once said: "A bigger one will always beat a smaller one". He was of course referring to the speaker - but then you knew that anyway! ;) (You did know that didn't you?)

Regards
14-05-2010, 18:26
Rare Bird

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L

I saw it but my eye is on Japanese tuners only for the time being.

I spied a Yamaha 'CT-7000' on the bay oveseas made a slight movement in the panty region i must say.. Sorry i lied it was a large movement :)
14-05-2010, 19:01
DSJR

Magisters for a tenner? The nearest we got in our dump was a pair of Beovox P45's (wall mounted super-slim speakers) and I didn't have any money (I had ideas for using 'em in the garage).. These days, the dump is super-tidy with skips for everything and no old furniture etc. on display...
14-05-2010, 19:15
Barry

More eBay lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Regards
14-05-2010, 19:16
Rare Bird

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry

More eBay lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Regards

:eek:
15-05-2010, 05:55
REM

How about this for lunacy:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Boxed...item2a06a6c29c:rolleyes:
15-05-2010, 08:48
The Vinyl Adventure

Quote:

Originally Posted by REM

How about this for lunacy:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Boxed...item2a06a6c29c:rolleyes:

What te fuck?? Is there any explanation for that?
15-05-2010, 08:55
Macca

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hamish

What te fuck?? Is there any explanation for that?

Some people have too much money?
15-05-2010, 10:26
Joe

Quote:

Originally Posted by Macca

Some people have too much money?

And too little sense!
15-05-2010, 11:01
Rare Bird

I'd want a couple of amplifier for that money :lol:
15-05-2010, 20:44
trane

Quote:

Originally Posted by REM

How about this for lunacy:-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Original-Boxed...item2a06a6c29c:rolleyes:

hope what's inside is at least what's written on the box...
16-05-2010, 12:47
Rare Bird

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beobloke

Finally, I'm not sure if it's OK for this thread, as I didn't buy them on eBay, but these mysteriously removed a tenner from my wallet and deposited themselves in the car when I was at the dump last week - Goodmans Magisters, with proper 15" bass drivers! :eyebrows:

Hi Adam
Somethings been irritating me with the 'Magisters' of yours..'Magisters' are suppose to have three smaller units! they look like 'Magnums' with a 15'' Bass instead of 10''..Maybe i'm missing something i'm not very up on Goodmans tbh they never intrested me enough :(
16-05-2010, 12:52
DSJR

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry

More eBay lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Regards

Oooh, I've got a set of those......... Bloomin' accurate they are too :)
16-05-2010, 19:21
Jonboy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry

More eBay lunacy:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Regards

I have a set of those without tweezers yours for £89.99p if your interested :lol:
17-05-2010, 10:48
Barry

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonboy

I have a set of those without tweezers yours for £89.99p if your interested :lol:

Thanks for your offer Jon, but I have a set - bought some 25 years ago for about £25. :)
17-05-2010, 11:49
Rare Bird

Quote:

Originally Posted by Barry

Thanks for your offer Jon, but I have a set - bought some 25 years ago for about £25. :)

but are they Transcriptors or J.A Michell?
17-05-2010, 18:56
hifi_dave

I've got two of each.....:ner:

They were the best looking by a million miles and accurate to 1/100th of a gramme, apparently. Bit fiddly to use and two of them are coming unstuck as I recall. Must drag them out for a fiddle sometime.

I also have some of their squirrel hair record and stylus brushes somewhere. Beautiful but useless.
17-05-2010, 19:04
Beobloke

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andre

Hi Adam
Somethings been irritating me with the 'Magisters' of yours..'Magisters' are suppose to have three smaller units! they look like 'Magnums' with a 15'' Bass instead of 10''..Maybe i'm missing something i'm not very up on Goodmans tbh they never intrested me enough :(

Well, Andre, let me educate you then good sir! As an ex-Goodmans employee who had access to their archive I can tell you that the early 70's range went something like this -

Maxim - Two way with 4" bass
Double Maxim - as above but twin 4" bass drivers
Minster - Two way; 8" bass driver
Havant - Three way; 8" bass driver
Mezzo - Three way; 10" bass driver
Magnum - Three way; 12" bass driver
Magister - Three way; 15" bass driver

At the same time the range had a few oddities like the Goodwoods, which were also three ways with a 12" bass driver and the Dimension 8s which had a 10" rear-mounted passive radiator and four 5" bass drivers in a bidirectional arrangement.

The Goodmans ranges were horrendously confusing, with the 'M' range listed above, the RB series, the dB series, two different ranges of Achromats and the High Impact Monitor range, to name but a few! They also had an irritating penchant for re-using names -I know of four different versions of 'Maxim' that spanned the 1960s to the 1990s.

A lot of people dismiss Goodmans loudspeakers quite readily because of their relative low cost when they were new and the fact that you really can pick them up for plennies nowadays. The only real collectables are some of the rarer drive units like the Axiom 80s and the original 1960s Maxims. I think this is a shame, personally - they came up with some simple but very capable designs over the years and it is always worth remembering that many of the great UK loudspeaker designers started their careers at Goodmans. I personally think the final closure of the company in 2006 was a very sad day for the British audio industry.
17-05-2010, 19:16
Ali Tait

The Axioms are superb sounding drivers IMO.
17-05-2010, 21:47
Barry

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andre

but are they Transcriptors or J.A Michell?

I've had a look and it's a Mitchell. Apart from the place where the stylus is placed (improved on the Mitchell from a safety point of view, if not from a user point of view), they look identical.

Maximum error (for a tracking force of 1.5g weight): 8.3mg, or +0.55%. Good enough for me.

These days I use an electronic jeweller's balance as it's more convenient and just as accurate. Sometimes I use a Swiss 'Correx' gauge.

Regards
17-05-2010, 22:03
Rare Bird

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beobloke

Well, Andre, let me educate you then good sir! As an ex-Goodmans employee who had access to their archive I can tell you that the early 70's range went something like this -

Maxim - Two way with 4" bass
Double Maxim - as above but twin 4" bass drivers
Minster - Two way; 8" bass driver
Havant - Three way; 8" bass driver
Mezzo - Three way; 10" bass driver
Magnum - Three way; 12" bass driver
Magister - Three way; 15" bass driver

Sorry i thought the Magnum were 10" :doh:
19-05-2010, 13:11
Rare Bird

Hi Fi obsessed Snobs might turn their noses up at this 20 Bit machine but it was a very expensive CDP in the late 80's about £450 ish..

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Technics-SL-P9...item3effdecaed
19-05-2010, 15:20
horace

I just picked up a five shelf Stands Unique rack for £17. Collected it this morning.

Quite chuffed with that :).

EDIT: But not so chuffed that I've managed to put this in the wrong bloody forum - sorry.

Still a bargain though....

EDIT AGAIN: sort of in the right place - just not vintage kit...

Just ignore me, I'm having one of those days....

Cheers

Martin
20-05-2010, 20:23
horace

You know that feeling you get when you post in a thread and it dies.....?

I have that feeling now.

Hellooooooo........

:)

Martin
20-05-2010, 20:39
aquapiranha

Quote:

Originally Posted by horace

You know that feeling you get when you post in a thread and it dies.....?

I have that feeling now.

Hellooooooo........

:)

Martin

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...readKiller.jpg
20-05-2010, 20:55
Themis

:lol:
20-05-2010, 22:24
horace

What was that?

Did somebody say something?

Thought not.

:)

Martin
21-05-2010, 05:57
aquapiranha

Quote:

Originally Posted by horace

What was that?

Did somebody say something?

Thought not.

:)

Martin

I used to think that if I posted in a thread, I killed it dead.

Now I KNOW I was right!

:lol:
21-05-2010, 06:47
The Grand Wazoo

Quote:

Originally Posted by aquapiranha

I used to think that if I posted in a thread, I killed it dead.

Now I KNOW I was right!

No! you're completely wrong.
21-05-2010, 23:22
Rare Bird

Those Metrosound ST20 were ok amps

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Thorens-TD150-...item3a5ae30979
23-05-2010, 10:34
Rare Bird

Bought a Sony X222ES CDP to play which. Looks quite nice especially when i get the wooded sides for it.. £50 ..Bit of work on it could be a keeper who knows..nicked the pics from flea bay, be here about tuesday.Aluminium tray front with real Allen bolts.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...SIN/222es1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...SIN/222es3.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...SIN/222es4.jpg
23-05-2010, 10:43
DSJR

Quote:

Originally Posted by Andre

Those Metrosound ST20 were ok amps

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Thorens-TD150-...item3a5ae30979

D'ya want one for a tenner????? may need a re-cap though, but it works..
23-05-2010, 10:44
Rare Bird

Thanks but no thanks Dave just shifted a pile of old stuff before the weekend.
23-05-2010, 12:05
The Vinyl Adventure

i spotted this whilst browsing listings local to me... any good?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_500wt_1182
23-05-2010, 12:42
DSJR

We never sold them, but I remember it fondly for some reason...

Don't Richer do a modern version of it still?????
23-05-2010, 12:48
The Vinyl Adventure

Yeah a chrome thing... The seller is quite insistant it's not one of those for some reason
23-05-2010, 12:55
Rare Bird

I think the earlier ones are not the same as the later!
23-05-2010, 13:00
The Vinyl Adventure

That's the impression I get too
23-05-2010, 13:02
Rare Bird

If you fancy it i'd place a bid at that price as the originals were nice sounding amps.
23-05-2010, 13:05
The Vinyl Adventure

It's my bid on it... Wish me luck
23-05-2010, 13:14
Rare Bird

Good luck bud
23-05-2010, 14:11
Barry

Someone got a bargain:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT.

If it had not been for 'Buyer collects', I would have bid myself.

Regards
23-05-2010, 14:30
Rare Bird

Blimey they were cheap

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