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  1. #1
    Join Date: Aug 2018

    Location: Germany

    Posts: 2
    I'm Christof.

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    ...is the title of Gil Scott-Herons aptly named final studio album. And so I am.

    So, hello to everyone here! This is Christof from Germany.

    Been a long time hi-fi junkie (for more than 30 years) and used to work in a record shop and hi-fi store back in the late 80s.

    Have been using naim gear for more than 10 years (up and down the escalator including fully fraimed 552/300/SL2 setup) and sold everything some years ago.
    Switched back to vintage gear, tubes and vinyl. But want to build up a second system with classic naim CB stuff.
    Have been buying and selling hi-fi gear successfully at all major platforms including audio-markt, audiogon, eBay and pinkfishmedia with only good results and 100%
    pos. feedbacks including flawless and successful vinyl and CD sales at discogs.
    Am no longer interested in digital sources basically and do not own any digital components anymore (apart from a Mu-So in my kitchen).
    I don't really care anymore about CDs, DACs (albeit the Chord stuff is great though), DSD, NAS, MQA, Streaming Apps, Audirvana and so on...
    I only enjoy vinyl and do own some 6000 titles. Still growing.

    Have spent more time over the years with buying and selling hi-fi gear and records than with listening itself probably
    Last edited by Mister Tibbs; 13-08-2018 at 22:38. Reason: small spelling correction

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    Join Date: Jan 2009

    Location: Essex

    Posts: 31,853
    I'm openingabottleofwine.

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    Welcome to AoS Christof.

    'Europe' is a little too vague as your location, so can you replace it with Germany please?

    What vintage gear do you use now? We love vintage audio gear here.

    You are not alone in eschewing digital replay - though if done well digital, IMO, can be as satisfying as analogue reproduction.

    But with 6,000 LPs to listen to, that should keep you busy! What are your tastes in music?

    Enjoy the Forum
    Barry
    Last edited by Barry; 14-08-2018 at 13:29.
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    Join Date: Apr 2012

    Location: N E Kent

    Posts: 51,624
    I'm Geoff.

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    Hi Christof. Welcome to AOS.

    Plenty of vinyl fans here. Tell us what music you play.

    I'm sure you'll find plenty to interest you, so just join in and chat with members.


    Enjoy the forum,
    Geoff.

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    Join Date: Feb 2013

    Location: W Lothian

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    I'm Grant.

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    Hi Christof. Welcome to the forum.
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

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    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

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    Join Date: Aug 2018

    Location: Germany

    Posts: 2
    I'm Christof.

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    Currently I use my fathers TD 125KII which has been serviced and refurbished by Jürg Schopper. Worth every penny and best VFM investment in audio gear I've ever spent. Using Ortofon Quintet Blue, White and Dynavector XX2 MK2 currently with Hashimoto Step Up Transformer and EAR 834p phono amp into McIntosh C40 and 2125. Also have a set of Leben pre/power tube amp and I do own a TMS turntable which is stored away because I don't have the space to set it up properly.
    The only digital source I own is my naim Mu-so in the kitchen.

    As for the music: I do own a large classic selection (approx. 2000 titles) which I bought from my neighbour years ago, who had been an audiophile all of his life.
    But now being in his 80s he had to part with it and was forced to reduce his collection. I took a part of it cause I couldn't resist.
    Apart form this I do focus on US Jazz, mostly east cost Jazz. All the van Gelder Hard Bop stuff on labels like, Prestige, BN, Impulse, Contemporary, Riverside etc.
    Of course European Jazz from Scandinavia, Germany (SABA, MPS etc) and France. Would love to get British Jazz, but that's tough.
    I also love 70s US Jazz Funk and Fusion (CTI, Kudu, Milestone, Mainstream) and of course Soul and Funk, some northern and modern stuff etc.
    Have a very broad taste in music. I love Library, Film /TV/ Soundtracks as well as classic alternativ stuff such as Television, Sonic South or the Stooges and do even like modern electronic stuff (Leftfield, Dub, EDM, Trip Hop, Trance, Goa, Drum and Bass etc).
    So there is not really a genre or even group I focus on. I just like listening to quality recordings what ever that means.

  6. #6
    Join Date: Mar 2016

    Location: Barnet, london UK

    Posts: 2,146
    I'm Adam.

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    My sorta guy
    Welcome along Christof, be sure to check out and contribute to the Jazz section.
    "lack of passion is fatal"


    Vinyl: Thorens TD-124mk2 / SME-312 Aluminium 'special' / SME M2-9R / STEREO: Etsuro Urushi Cobalt / Shure M3D / Ortofon SPU A95 / Cartridge Man Music Master / Shure - SC35C (US) / SAEC C3 MC MONO: Miyajima Zero B 0.7mil mono / Miyajima Premium 1.0 / Amps & SUTs: Radford STA25 mk3 / AD Audio 'Satchmo2' pre & LCR phono / Hashimoto HM-7 SUT / ETR-MONO SUT Digital: Audio Note 4.1 (with DAC5 upgrades) DAC / Roon / Tidal Speakers: Tannoy 12" MGs' in RFC custom 'Rutland' Cabinets with RFC crossovers / Tannoy ST-100 Super Tweeters Cables: LFD Grainless phono / RFC Mercury / Duelund DCA16GA tinned copper / Kimber 12TC / SW1X Audio Design USB-SPdif / Duelund DCA20GA interconnects / SW1X Audio SPDIF Aero 6 / Mains Power Conditioner / Box Furniture rack / Audiodesk Systeme Vinyl Cleaner / a very beautiful & understanding Wife!

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    Join Date: Apr 2012

    Location: N E Kent

    Posts: 51,624
    I'm Geoff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Tibbs View Post
    Currently I use my fathers TD 125KII which has been serviced and refurbished by Jürg Schopper
    Nice turntable. I like Thorens.

  8. #8
    Join Date: Mar 2016

    Location: Barnet, london UK

    Posts: 2,146
    I'm Adam.

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    I take it you settled on the name Mr Tibbs name after...
    Quincy Jones wonderful score...
    "lack of passion is fatal"


    Vinyl: Thorens TD-124mk2 / SME-312 Aluminium 'special' / SME M2-9R / STEREO: Etsuro Urushi Cobalt / Shure M3D / Ortofon SPU A95 / Cartridge Man Music Master / Shure - SC35C (US) / SAEC C3 MC MONO: Miyajima Zero B 0.7mil mono / Miyajima Premium 1.0 / Amps & SUTs: Radford STA25 mk3 / AD Audio 'Satchmo2' pre & LCR phono / Hashimoto HM-7 SUT / ETR-MONO SUT Digital: Audio Note 4.1 (with DAC5 upgrades) DAC / Roon / Tidal Speakers: Tannoy 12" MGs' in RFC custom 'Rutland' Cabinets with RFC crossovers / Tannoy ST-100 Super Tweeters Cables: LFD Grainless phono / RFC Mercury / Duelund DCA16GA tinned copper / Kimber 12TC / SW1X Audio Design USB-SPdif / Duelund DCA20GA interconnects / SW1X Audio SPDIF Aero 6 / Mains Power Conditioner / Box Furniture rack / Audiodesk Systeme Vinyl Cleaner / a very beautiful & understanding Wife!

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