Indeed, dude. I'm reading it now!
Some of the vintage B&O kit was actually very good. It wasn't like the shite they make now for corpulent 'key-jangler' types with a penchant for slurping Cristal and taking package holidays in Tenerife
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Indeed, dude. I'm reading it now!
Some of the vintage B&O kit was actually very good. It wasn't like the shite they make now for corpulent 'key-jangler' types with a penchant for slurping Cristal and taking package holidays in Tenerife
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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Agreed! I have a B&O 1700 tuner, bought purely for it's looks. Not only does it look gorgeous but it sounds very good as well; somewhere between a Leak Troughline and a Quad FM3, so no slouch!Originally Posted by Marco
Indeed, dude. I'm reading it now!
Some of the vintage B&O kit was actually very good. It wasn't like the shite they make now for corpulent 'key-jangler' types with a penchant for slurping Cristal and taking package holidays in Tenerife
Marco.
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Some of the vintage B&O kit was actually very good. It wasn't like the shite they make now for corpulent 'key-jangler' types with a penchant for slurping Cristal and taking package holidays in Tenerife
Marco.
Adam (who has never tried Cristal and never been to Tenerife but has more than a few choice items of modern B&O!)
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Ha - I knew there'd be some daftee here who bought the current stuff!
Marco.
P.S Well seen you know how to spell 'Cristal' (now amended accordingly)!
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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Old B&O was genuinely good and I fondly remember the Beolab 5000 integrated amp (as suggested in the pic) as happily driving some Linn Sara's to a very high standard. Continental gear had to drive a compulsory 4 Ohm load back then (DIN standard?) so the power supplies had to be up to it. Tuners designed there also had to be sensitive and selective too and B&O and Tandberg (I'm sure there are other greats too) seemed to do a wonderful job that the old UK tuners couldn't get anywhere near.
Actually Marco, a fettled 'Lab 5000 would be an excellent match to the Ditton 66's in one of your many available rooms should your proposed move take place...A fully serviced 'Gram 3000 with SP12 pickup (or an extremely rare Beogram 3000 with TD124!) would set it off nicely.
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[EDIT] I understand I was in error with the above comments. The Goodmans were of course the MAXIMS from the late 60's, the Minimax's being the Hungarian babies from a few years later.I believe those Goodmans Minimax's were designed, at least in part, by ATC's Billy Woodman, who also "did" the Gale 401's I believe.
I have another cheapo memory-flood on the back burner and just missed some last week
I also understand from Richard Dunn that Ira Gale himself designed the 401 speakers, so apologies to all for the mis-information
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Those B&O's are Beolab '5000' Amplifier & Beomaster '5000' TunerGet a Transcriptor T/T Marco and you'll be obliged to buy some B&O electronics to go with it (see the photo)!
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Them's the ones and there's a Dutch? site dedicated to restoring them
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Don't they look just gorgeous?And, from what I remember, didn't sound too bad either.
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They are nice, my fav B&O's
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