hello from bilbao, baskenland

[dequincey]

hello, i am sitting here in front of this thing, suffering from middle age dissease,
i am engineer by training, and i like to do all sort of things usisng my hands, learning about interesting things, and putting them in practice, someone told me that i love the motto form follows form, it might be right

i am stuck in the seventies in many aspects as furniture, cars, fashion, and hifi gear

all started three years ago, i was moderately happy with my CD reader + DAC + a dedicated valve amp and grado headphones

but discovered my old stack of vinyl records and thought about how to listen to them

to make a long story short here is the setup,

B&O beogram 1202 with eliptical dedicated stylus sp-12, sansui au 555-A solid state stereo amplifier, sansui tu 666 tuner, B&W P4 speakers (which are now getting dusty for no use)

my new interest is in speakers, and specifically in the yamaha NS series, i will try to share my discoveries and recent work, hope you find it interesting and can shed some light over this not always easy path

thank you

[walpurgis]

Hi Arsenico. Welcome to AOS.

If you want to chat about vintage gear and vinyl you've come to the right place.

We have a few Yamaha NS-1000 owners here, so if you want any opinions, just ask.


Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.

[dequincey]

thank you Geoff

i am more in the ns 230 to ns 20 old gear range, 1968 till 1978, but hope knowledge will be broad enough

[dequincey]

a couple of pics of my setup

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[RobbieGong]

Hi Arsenico,

Nice to have you onboard.

My first ever time on an aeroplane and travel abroad was to Bilbao.

My group did a gig at the festival you have there in the summer.

This would have been around 1990.

It was a Mad Professor promotion, with us (Intense), Augustus Pablo and others.

Great festival with the mountains in front if us in the distance I remember.

[dequincey]

Hi Arsenico,

Nice to have you onboard.

My first ever time on an aeroplane and travel abroad was to Bilbao.

My group did a gig at the festival you have there in the summer.

This would have been around 1990.

It was a Mad Professor promotion, with us (Intense), Augustus Pablo and others.

Great festival with the mountains in front if us in the distance I remember.

,

wow that is very exceptional, now the festival is called BBK Live, i went there to listen to Robert Smith & Friends a couple of years ago, it was an epic concert, Mr. Smith played acoustic three songs while the team was solving a technical problem, fantastic guy: "i think i have to get the rest of the group with me,...thats why its the cure and not robert smith" :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSBVNj6p5kM

[Barry]

Welcome to AoS Arsenico.



It looks like you have two B&O turntables with B&O arms. The SP-12 is a fine cartridge, and one I would like to try myself.

We have some Sansui fans here.

Enjoy the Forum
Barry

[dequincey]

yes i do have the beogram 1202 and the 1203
sp-12 that i bought NOS from a guy that has those
regards