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Greetings one and all
Been a browser of this forum for a while but having recently met one of your good selves I thought I'd register.
My musical tastes are fairly eclectic ranging from progressive rock to classical to folk. Started properly collecting music in my teens, the uni record library was a lifesaver. However the oldest piece of vinyl I have is from 1958 when I was the tender age of 2. Most of the vinyl collection dates back 30 to 40 years though apart from some remasters and some new material from old artists that are fortunately still with us. Fell into the digital trap due to the poor quality of many pressings around the time the CDs burgeoned onto the scene. Helped by the fact that the first cd players were assembled on the surface mount machines that my employers at the time supplied to Philips and my first player, CD-303, was obtained at half price. Thus a significant CD collection now ripped to .flac and stored on various NAS drives.
More recently got back into vinyl and my turntable which had been gathering dust on the top of the stack, as more than one forum member has commented upon, was pressed back into use.
Listening hardware is a mix of new and old as you can imagine.
Gyrodec, ac motor, Orbe upgrades.
ADC LMF-1
Nagaoka MP-50 with MP-500 stylus
Arcam rPhono preamplifier
NAD C350 main amplifier
NAD C 545 BEE CD player
Arcam rPlay streamer
Cambridge Audio CXN v2 streamer
Celestion Ditton 44 speakers
Mission 70 speakers
Yamaha KX-580 cassette deck
Beyerdynamic T51i headphones
Beyerdynamic T1 (second gen) headphones
Little Dot 1+ headphone amplifier
Little Dot Mk 2 headphone amplifier
Beyerdynamic A20 headphone amplifier
FiiO x5iii portable digital player
Arcam irDac 2 DAC for sorting out all the digital stuff
Better stop there as people will think I'm a hardware junkie.
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Welcome to the site Paul. Glad you eventually joined. Lots of interesting threads here
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Hi Paul,welcome to AOS,and very nice to meet you last Saturday :)
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Hi Paul, welcome to the forum.
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Thanks
Just hoping nothing tempts me to spend too much money on this hobby/lifestyle/addiction. Whatever it is.
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It's a little from all three columns I think.
Buy used kit at a sane price, you can always sell it on for the same or a little less. Costs next to nothing, you just have a bit of cash tied up for a while, that's all.
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Hello Paul. Welcome to AOS.
I'm sure it's been done before, but I've never seen a Gyrodec with an LMF-1, It's an unusual combo.
Tell us what future plans you may have for your Hi-Fi and feel free to join in the chat, there's plenty going on.
Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.
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Hi Geoff,
LMF1 and Gyrodec were mentioned as a combination on tnt-audio so I cannot claim to be the first. Only time I've ever seen the combination mentioned but physically it doesn't look too bad at all. Unfortunately there are not too many current comparisons between the thin black stick and anything more up to date so any replacement would be a plunge into the dark.
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It should be a workable combination as long as higher compliance cartridges are used. I'd be inclined to maybe experiment with a little added mass at the headshell. It can't hurt and may reinforce the bass.
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It's had the same MP50, now with MP500 stylus, hanging off it for nearly 40 years so I guess it must be doing something right. Pondering an Audiomods arm atm though.