Who's up for a "Cheap as Chips" Challenge?

[Tim]

Just missed out on a pair of Celestion 100's tonight, which were £1.20 up to 3 seconds to go, then sold for just under £26.00 I would have liked those anyway, despite the challenge.

[Alex_UK]

Mark - too knackered (pissed!) tonight to worry about it - but I have made a "note to self" to get my sh!t together!

[Jac Hawk]

but I have made a "note to self" to get my sh!t together!

I usually keep mine in a special white bowl with all the other little brown fish

[keiths]

Probably not my place to comment as I'll not be able to get to Scalford, but isn't the Scalford show the worst place to do this? I mean, Scalford is a once a year chance for everyone to get together, hear lots of different systems at a wide range of price points - most people who went to the show this year commented that they didn't have enough time to get around all the rooms and hear everything they wanted to. Anyone doing this challange is just about foregoing the chance to listen to anything else during the show.

Why not hire a room above a pub somewhere for an afternoon well before Scalford to do this (and arrange a meal for everyone afterwards - do that in the same pub and you'll probably get the upstairs room for free anyway). Maybe use this to get it down to the top two systems and use Scalford as the final shootout?

As I say, not really up to me to comment as I won't be taking part, but just my 2p worth.

[Tim]

That's a very good point Keith and something I hadn't considered.

It will be my first visit to Scalford and I would want to see as much as possible, so there could be a time management issue

[Jac Hawk]

Yes a good point keith, but members are all over the country and aranging a pre bake off may put some folk off, also it would really only be the judging panel who would miss out and not the competitors, as each competitor would be given a time slot of say 20 minutes to show off their system to the judging panel, giving enough time to see other rooms, to be honnest though if there are a lot of entrants then doing it in stages may be the only way to go, it all depends on the numbers.

[Dingdong]

How many are taking up the challenge at the moment?

After selling off one bit of my system and swapping another I currently have;

A nice Marantz cd player
A Garrard turntable with Grado cartridge
A Denon tuner
A Leak amp
A pair of B&W speakers and some stands
A couple of isolation platforms.
An oscilloscope to help me sort out the small problem with the amp

With a little left over for some cables.

I'm all for chipping in for sharing a room for the systems.

[Reid Malenfant]

Me

Right now i have the following

A 180W per channel power amp
4 x ILP HY60 amplifier modules
4 x Audax 5 1/4" bass midrange units
2 x 1" dome tweeters
4 x 18V 180VA transformers
A receiver to use as a pre amp (once fettled)
An active crossover
1 sheet of 18mm MDF
200 x 1 1/4" size 6 twin thread screws
Lots of ideas & not a lot else

[Jonboy]

what about on the Saturday as it is setting up day for the show anyway in another room then the winner gets to show it off on the Sunday in the AOS room, it would mean a stay over night though but with more time for beer or six
just a thought

[Reid Malenfant]

C'mon Jon, would you want this tat in the AoS room?

I like the Saturday idea but i guess the winner could simply leave the system in the same room once it's won. Then anyone who ventures in can see what £100, some scrounging & ingenuity can get you