I might be wrong but I think Loricraft bought the right to use the name, not the rights to the name. But that was a long time ago the situation may have changed since.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
If you forget about the price of the Tellytubby speakers they are good fun, I maintain.
And that's just it. You HAVE to forget about the price of things at Munich and enjoy what you hear. Comedy pricing is everywhere.
For comedy pricing you need good marketing.... well, maybe. Check out the gallery at the AskJa website.
I have taken way too many pics which makes sorting it all out a nightmare...
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
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Sme purchased the rights to the name from the Brazilian owner, they have now opened a Garrard Factory in swindon where terry will be working from with the assistance of sme trained staff.
The 301 as shown in Munich is a serviced unit, with a solid walnut plinth with stainless steel struts coupled with the same dampening material as used in the model 10 and new sme model 12, the feet are a custom version of the model 30 plinth with further isolation supplied with the M12R tonearm all in for a whopping £12500.
Most important and used Walker Black Diamond Etsuro Gold, Micro Seiki 8000mk2 Kondo special V12 Tiger Eye, Fidelity Research FR 66 Shindo spu, EMT 927, sme 312 aluminium. Fidelity research fr66, Sme 3012 mk1, Sme V, Ikeda 407 IT Sme Model 30/2/Dynavector 507 Kodo Beat Turntable Airtangent 10B modified Fidelity fr66s Etsuro Cartridge . Kondo Gakuoh Mk1 powers G70 Pre,Audio Tekne TFA-8695PCS pre Audio Tekne TEA 8695 Phono. Lfd Battery Phono Stage heavily custom rebuilt by Dr Richard Bews, Tharx Phono Stage. Lfd Master Dual Biamp power amp, Lfd Anniversary master preamp. Shindo Latour Field Coil. Rockport Cygnus Biamped, Voigt Domestic Corner Horns/ Feastex Fildcoils. LFD Custom silver Ribbons. LFD Diamond Vipor Mk2 interconnects, Lfd Golden Cobra interconnect. Koetsu blue lace mono special order, Koetsu burma jade mono special order.
To be fair it looks better in real life than in my really shit photo. I think it's footprint is quite appealing and the cleaning will be pretty effective given it's the nozzle type as used by KM and Loricraft.
The TD124 by contrast is even worse than it looks in my pic, what possessed them to use that flat dark grey?
Brilliant web site. I wonder whose yacht - Vladimir Putin's perhaps?
Actually to be fair I thought the speakers did quite well from a pair of 300bs. When I asked the price I thought he said 140k Euros to start with and that almost seemed like 'yeah I guess' in a Munich context. But 440k is ... well ...
I'll upload all my pics somewhere so anyone can download them in one go. Might take a while.