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Location: Essex
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I'm openingabottleofwine.
You're right - I should have clicked on the "0 bids".Originally Posted by Andre
That's my approach to Chinese built gear. The track record for all of my 'Region Free' DVD players, so far, has been 12 -18 months before they develop a fault. At £50 a pop I can live with that. Wouldn't spend any more on Chinese crap!
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Barry
ELP Fanboy
Location: Yorks
Posts: 16,643
I'm Nobody.
If your good enough to find exceptionally good performing gear at beer money it's the best way, i don't give a shit what badge snobs think of me & what i buy,it aint a competition.. i used to hate japanese gear but i changed that point of view some time ago they last a lot longer than the high priced english hi-fi..The best quality for the money equipment to buy IMHO is Sony.This Sony CDP i have is around ten years old now, i have another unused boxed so if it ever breaks down who cares. Ive had CD players & amps from most well respected british manufacturers & all have given me problems before 2 years.Never again i don't work my bollox of to pay for unreliable hi-priced clobber
Mesmer
Location: France
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I'm notAlone.
Most consumer electronics of respected (mainstream) manufacturers are reliable (for at least 10-20 yeras).
Dimitri.
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Location: Hemel Hempstead
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I'm Steve.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it against eBay 'rules' to cancel an auction where valid bids exist unless you clearly state that the item is also being advertised off-line too?
If not, surely this would just be an easy way out for anyone who didn't like the price their item reached?
Steve aka 'Twelvebears' (it's a long story)
System: Technics 1210 Mk5, Jelco 750 arm, AT33EV via MF X-LP2 Phono Stage, Oyaide mat and record clamp. SB Touch via Marantz PM-11S1 amp and Wilson Benesch A.C.T. speakers. Mark Grant cables and PS Audio Power Plant Premier mains regenerator.
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Location: Surrey
Posts: 782
I'm Paul.
Yeah, its regarded as against the spirit of the auction, but I think you can still pull an auction after bidding has occurred and come up with a feeble excuse from the options list. I think you can even claim back your fees if you complete the transaction outside of ebay.
ELP Fanboy
Location: Yorks
Posts: 16,643
I'm Nobody.
I wish he wasnt so far away i'd have these, one of the first speakers i ever had. The sheer size of em will kill bids.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CASTLE-HOWARD-...item230583e1b3
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Wow, those are very different from the Castle Howards I remember of the 90s, which were tall floor-standers with upward-firing drivers.... Back then I had the Harlech; it's smaller brother - they were quite good
I like the look of the vintage ones, but the only thing that'd put me off is the weird shape, low and squat... You'd need pretty weird looking custom-made speaker stands to a) support their full dimensions, and b) to get them up to the correct ear height, as they seem so low to the ground....
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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Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex
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I'm Dave.
Around the same time, ProAc came up with a speaker employing 4 x KEF B110 in tandem as a bass driver. The idea being that you had the air moving capabilities of a large bass unit with the 'speed' of a smalll driver. It wasn't 100% successful and was abandoned. Interesting though...
ProAc also did a speaker employing 20 or more (I can't remember), 1 inch dome Peerless tweeters as the bass driver, a single dome for HF and a Piezo super-tweet. This was very fast and transparent but the domes would quickly run out of excursion and burn out. Good fun for a short time...
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What kind of stands would you put on those things though, Dave? Or was that in the days when they were simply plonked on the floor or on castors?
Either way, they must've sounded terrible like that unless you kneeled down on the floor when listening to music or were a midget!
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.
Trade: Radlett Audio
Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex
Posts: 7,357
I'm Dave.
With the ProAc speakers, it was when we had quite a few stand-mount speakers but, even then, the stands tended to be around 16-18 inches high. As you might have guessed, the tweeters were firing at your knee caps unless the speaker was large.
There were few stand makers then and most made trolleys to perch the speaker on, alternatively, there were single, mass loaded columns on which to balance the larger speaker. It took a few years to get stand makers to produce sensible stands.
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