Who’s he? A friend of yours?Originally Posted by walpurgis
Gordon Keeble?
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Who’s he? A friend of yours?Gordon Keeble?
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He's the third cousin (twice removed) of Willie Rushton.
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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https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25453/lot/322/Who’s he? A friend of yours?
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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I know, I know - I was only messing! Lovely cars.
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But most others here won't have a clue.
I'd better stop there before I start going on about Pegaso and Facel Vega.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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Central defenders for Deportivo de La Coruña, no?
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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I can remember getting into a Jensen in my youth when I worked at an ICE dealer, the smell of leather was luxurious.
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Ending the week with good news - Range Rover passed its MOT with NO advisories! Not bad for a 16 year old car that is..........well........a Range Rover.
Obviously I’m going to skip over the cost of the repair for the coolant leak that it also went in for. Suffice it to say, sitting down is uncomfortable today as I have a sharp pain in the wallet.
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yup they cost a lot to upkeep. my bro had 2 or 3 land rover defenders over a period; all from new but servicing etc was pricy. still the old range's are very nice, classic motors. always wanted one when younger. i did have an old landy myself but it was a heap
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Most of the bill was actually labour as the leak was a split coolant pipe. However, it’s right down the back of the engine so the manifolds, supercharger and a whole lot else had to come out to get at it.
Labour was just under £400 and that’s at an independent Landy specialist. I dread to think how much a main dealer would have charged!
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