PS - Co-ops are suprisingly good for some undiscovered gems, not just "Le Piat D'or" and "Blue Nun"
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PS - Co-ops are suprisingly good for some undiscovered gems, not just "Le Piat D'or" and "Blue Nun"
Alex
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Bastards! I'm on 'Lent' at the moment, so have given up drinking all forms of alcohol for SIX WEEKS
Marco.
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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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Not a good time to tell you about a good Bordeuaux offer at Sainsbury's then?Originally Posted by Marco
Bastards! I'm on 'Lent' at the moment, so have given up drinking all forms of alcohol for SIX WEEKS
Marco.
Roc de Lussac - 2007 Lussac St Emilion - half price at £6.99 from £13.99 - very worth it at that money!
Alex
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True, the initial price is decent, so the discounted is a steal !
Nice choice, Alex.
Dimitri.
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Presumably the Lentern proscription only applies to the consumption, not to the procuration, of alcohol.Bastards! I'm on 'Lent' at the moment, so have given up drinking all forms of alcohol for SIX WEEKS
Marco.
More to the point, and from a personal point of view, what will you be offering me to drink when I see you next month?
Regards
Barry
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Certainly is, and I have 'stolen'.True, the initial price is decent, so the discounted is a steal !
Nice choice, Alex.(Administrators, we need a wine drinking 'smiley')
Thanks Alex
Barry
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Enjoy Barry! (There is aCertainly is, and I have 'stolen'.
Thanks Alexred wine Smiley Barry, BTW!)
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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Well i'm off down the boozer, taste the local falling down watter aafter a hard week at work.
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Have fun, look forward to your drunken ramblings later on!
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
Amplifier: Rega Brio R. Speakers: Spendor SP1. Cables: Various, mainly Mark Grant. Please see "about me" for the rest of my cr@p! Gallery
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,597
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
You can give up what you want, or simply do good deeds instead, such as going to church every morning, or freeing one of the 'victims' inside my dungeon....
Nice fresh, Welsh WATER - and you'll like it, my boy!More to the point, and from a personal point of view, what will you be offering me to drink when I see you next month?
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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