Bargains on ebay? (Part 2)

[Marco]

Almost certainly go to a collector in Japan, I suppose it's relative RHRs are as scarce as hen's teeth and do sound nice.

Absolutely, and each to his or her own... However, for me, hi-fi equipment is judged SOLEY on its audio performance and reliability. Rarity or 'collectibility' simply doesn't come into it. Therefore, if I could find a pair of Tannoys that sounded just as good as those, or better, for a fraction of the price, then that's what I'd buy.

For me, it's all about achieving maximum SPPV, as the equipment itself is simply a means to an end [a necessary tool], not the end itself - and so I don't collect hi-fi equipment for its rarity value, in the way I would with the antique furniture and crockery we enjoy collecting for our period home

Marco.

[Marco]

I'm building some tranmission line cabinets for the 2528 dual concentric drivers.
All the plywood panels cut and internal batterns fitted, front and rear panels finished with required cutouts.
Just internal line to be fitted, then p.v.a times

You don't see many Tannoy DC's with transmission line loading and I kinder like the idea.
Nothing ventured etc...

Sounds interesting, Dunc! Look forward to hearing the results. I'd get some proper stands made for them too, while you're at it. Ones that both support the speakers properly, and get the tweeters up to a proper ear height

Marco.

[tubehunter]

No need for stands as the new cabs get the drivers to ear height as they are much taller.

[Beobloke]

He was just showing off its track finding ability Mike. Great TT's when working.

The PS-X75 doesn't have track finding ability. He pressed one button to lift the arm and then the second to move it inwards. The deck has two buttons for arm movement so you never need to go to the effort of actually having to move it by hand! The arm moves as long as the button is held down.

Nice deck.

[struth]

Was close..couldnt see much of buttons on my screen... So that one doesnt have the track find..which one does then... Sure i saw one that found the spaces

[struth]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IMF-TLS80-...IAAOSwT4lWTac8

these would do Martin nicely

[walpurgis]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IMF-TLS80-...IAAOSwT4lWTac8

these would do Martin nicely

They look very nice. Not sure about the Coles tweeters sounding better than the original HF2000 units though. I've used both many times and the Celestion is far sweeter and smoother. It would not be a straight swap in the IMFs as the impedances are different.

[montesquieu]

As I said, value is relative, if you factor in rarity, they may be worth that to a very serious collector. These were no designed for MGs or HPDs for that matter, Ronnie designed these for that specific driver and they were the best they could make at that time. Ronnie was a great designer and I had the privilege of discussing speaker and horn design with him on a number of occassions, these were really his swansong with the company. Would I drop that kind of cash on them if I won the lotto? No way, but as I said, like your mother in law, it's all relative

RGRFs are pretty good as far as they go - I owned a pair for about 5 years and had lots of pleasure out of them - but my guess is it would be pretty much impossible, regardless of crossover or driver, to design out the fundamental flaw of the GRF design which is a mid bass hump, followed by rapid dropoff below about 70hz. This was accentuated when you put an HPD in compared to a MG. I'm sure with these drivers and whatever crossover tweaks were done, they sounded quite nice but a normal pair of modern Canterburys should boot these into touch pretty effortlessly.

[montesquieu]

Opportunity to pick up some very well implemented Hashimoto HM7's ... not a vast saving over US import but at least these are in Europe.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2219975797...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

I rate mine as comparable to the Kondo-era Audio Note AN-6sc that I had immediately prior to my HM7s.

[Beobloke]

Was close..couldnt see much of buttons on my screen... So that one doesnt have the track find..which one does then... Sure i saw one that found the spaces

Off the top of my head, the following turntables have track selection (there are more, I'm sure!):

- ADC Accutrac 4000
- ADC Accutrac +6
- Akai AP-L95
- Aiwa LP-3000
- BSR Accuglide XR-60
- Technics SL-J300R
- Technics SL-J33
- Technics SL-6
- Technics SL-15
- Technics SL-Q6
- Technics SL-QL15
- JVC L-F71
- Optonica RP-7100
- Optonica RP-9100
- Pioneer PL-88FS
- Pioneer PL-X9
- Sansui XR-Q11
- Sony PS-FL770