Sorry -thought your mate knew what he was talking about!Originally Posted by Jac Hawk
Barry
IT WAS A JOKEYou know humour
Failed to appreciate the subtle distinction between,
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Sorry -thought your mate knew what he was talking about!Barry
IT WAS A JOKE
Failed to appreciate the subtle distinction between
Barry
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I still have 2 pairs of B&W DM2 speakers, £20 a pair if interested, would make a great sound in your £100 systems. Also a pair of Musical Fidelity MC2 in black ash £20.00 also
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Would my £49.99 system won on ebay before the 16th but not collected and paid for yet just make it in the rules?
If not does anyone want a Marantz CD75 II, Denon TU-660L, Arcam Alpha and Linn Index Plus for £51.
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Alex,
I need a rules clarification Alex
My whole system is file based (FLAC), so can I exclude the cost of my NAS & router, as it's shared across 4 sub systems?
In the same way that one would exclude the cost of CDs or Vinyl, and their storage racks from a conventional system.
Otherwise my SB receivers are out of the equation.
Come to think of it my PC/tower is over 5 years old, and as it's officially worth nothing as far as the tax man's concerned (4 * 25% depreciation offset against tax)...I won't go negative! And I can play my FLAC from the local HD if necessary!
So my PC £0 (Winamp, ASIO, FFSoX upsampler) + £32(M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI Soundcard Ebay 2nd hand), £22(Mission 780SEs Ebay 2nd hand), £5(Belkin pure AV RCA interconnect Ebay), Muse M21 EX T-Amp (£35 inc postage Ebay), Maplins speaker cable (I had lying around, honest guvnor), Target stands (RSPCA shop £5, about 10 years ago)
= conveniently £99 (with a bit of reverse engineering
Edit; Just spotted the bit about postage, so I can knock £12 off that for the postage from china for the Muse, and £1.75 for the Belkin
Cheers, Will
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Well you're all lucky i was preparing my dinner, i clean forgot about the damn speakers
Bests, Mark
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shame this wasn't a few weeks ago as I picked up a very nice Thorens TD150MKII for £10 and a set of Keff speakers for £5 from local charity shop and after a good clean up and set up sounds wonderful.
Im still looking for a 2nd amp to run this setup in my bedroom.
Gary.
Technics SE-9600-Technics SU-9600--Technics Technics RS-9900-ST-9600-Technics SH-9010 EQ-Hitachi HCA7500 pre Technics 1210mk2,SL P1200 cdp.Moth mkII RCM, Revox B77mKii,Pioneer CT-F1250-Nakamichi MR-1.Technics A900 mkll,Technics 631 cassette deck,Yamaha cr-1000 & Cr-600,Celestion Ditton 44's & 15xr's,Thorens TD-150mkll,Tascam 34,Akia 4000DS,Leak 2000 and assortment of Technics cd and minidisc players and Mission/AR/Kef speakers
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I'm Mark.
I've been out and paid for and collected my £49.99 system. I was a little disappointed with the sound. I did a bit of cable swapping and it doesn't sound half bad. As the cables I swapped in are stuff I've had hanging around, and are against the rules, I now have £50.01 for cables and tweaks.
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Nice one Mark. £49.99 sounds suspicious though - I hope you didn't misread the first post and buy an ipod dock from Tesco?
Are you going to let us into any of your secrets?
Alex
Main System: Digital: HP Laptop/M2Tech Hiface/Logitech Media Server/FLAC; Marantz SA7001 KI Signature SACD Player and other digital stuff into Gatorised Beresford Caiman DAC Vinyl: Garrard 401/SME 3009 SII Improved/Sumiko HS/Nagaoka MP-30
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I don't suppose my 'bargain' Celestions count (either of them)?
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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