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  1. #101
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    The correct adjective is "Marcian".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lawrence001 View Post
    I was thinking primarily of AI as I mentioned but there's Trump 2, Ukraine, the Middle East and several changes in PM to name a few more.
    And of course that family, they've had one or two things going on, including the dodgy bloke formerly known as Prince.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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  3. #103
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lawrence001 View Post
    I was thinking primarily of AI as I mentioned but there's Trump 2, Ukraine, the Middle East and several changes in PM to name a few more.
    Can't stand AI, it's yet another new technology that will lead to the ruination of mankind!

    New technology is great, until it gets misused...

    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.

  4. #104
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    And of course that family, they've had one or two things going on, including the dodgy bloke formerly known as Prince.
    Can't stand them either, especially, paedo-boy, Andy Pandy. The only ones I have any time for are Diana's two and Princess Anne.

    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.

  5. #105
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    Great idea baseball cap but no USA flag rather an England, Wales, Scotland and NI flags perhaps
    A widower finding solace in music

  6. #106
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    Welcome back, Marco.

    S.
    Shane Lonergan.

  7. #107
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    Cheers, mate

    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.

  8. #108
    Join Date: May 2008

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Hi Patrick, thanks. I'm ok and doing much better now

    I still have some mental health issues, resulting from the effects of long Covid, which need managed with meds.

    Marco.


    Hi Marco, so glad to see you back and hope you're coping okay these days (nobody told me you'd returned and two of them are friends of mine) - grr! In my all-but-retirement from subjective based audio (I now have quite severe hearing issues which totally prevent me 'trusting my lugs' in any way now and hearing aids don't effin' work when listening via speakers ), I've backed off forums now apart from one, which is measurement based but maybe a bit blind to how said measurements should be *interpreted,' especially where speakers are concerned (and amps can't simply be judged on their sinad figures either, but I digress).

    Hope you're still able to enjoy it all and in the meantime, I'll return to my addiction to Angine de Poitrine (thank gawd for YouTube), this bonkers pair of brilliant musicians just about keeping me sane these days... Take care
    I can't go on and I can't go back, I don't feel so matter of fact,
    I tried and tried to make good sense, What's the good to try it all again?

  9. #109
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    Hi Dave,

    Really good to hear from you again, and sorry to hear about your hearing. I'm coping fine. I've found that posting here again is good for my head space

    Take care, old chap, and look after yourself.

    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.

  10. #110
    Join Date: May 2008

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Hi Dave,

    Really good to hear from you again, and sorry to hear about your hearing. I'm coping fine. I've found that posting here again is good for my head space

    Take care, old chap, and look after yourself.

    Marco.
    I'll tell ya summat guv'nor, I've brought my 12" singles down and with the help of herself and son, have sorted them in alphabetical order, catalogued them all (there's way more than the 200 I thought I had, more like double from the 80s and 90s) and am ready to wind up the Rega3 in the second system to play them - the original EBLT helps get the speed right - at long bloody last! (headphones and iems [just some inexpensive 7Hz Zero 2s] tend to beat the hearing issues a bit and as herself dislikes the stuff I play in any case - cough...). LPs coming in from the cold as well (what's got into her? ) and space to be made with Kallax units in the understairs cupboard for them.

    Whatever the crap I've come out with in the past as regards 12" vinyl, my eyes really do now appreciate the sleeve artwork and with a half decent pickup (nothing fancy), I enjoy playing them now the 'hobby side' of all this has been put to one side and surface noise isn't really an issue now.

    Whatever discussions and arguments we've had over the last eighteen years and counting (I think it is), the MUSIC is what counts and whatever it's played on, it has saved me in recent times.

    Best regards, I'll look in from time to time if that's okay, D
    I can't go on and I can't go back, I don't feel so matter of fact,
    I tried and tried to make good sense, What's the good to try it all again?

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