It's great to be popular, eh?
Looking forward to meeting all you dafties!
Marco.
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,460
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
It's great to be popular, eh?
Looking forward to meeting all you dafties!
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.
Moderator
Location: Ayrshire
Posts: 1,359
I'm OneOfTheSevenModsWhoToldMarcoNotToLiftHarry'sBan.
Originally Posted by Dominic Harper
Damn, too late again. Maybe another time.
ATB
David
Member
Location: St Annes Lancs UK
Posts: 95
I'm Stewart.
Unfortunately I will not be able to come to your meet this Saturday. This is due to having to cover for a sick colleague! I didnt find out till this afternoon.
I do apologise for any inconvenience I have caused you.
Stewart
Trade: Northwest Analogue
Location: Preston, UK
Posts: 851
I'm Dominic.
Sorry you can't make it Stewart, I thought you were coming David? Natalie has been organising all this so I will have to check with her.
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,460
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Yeah, David, if you could make it, that would be great!
You could crash at our place and go back on Sunday, if you wanted (Wrexham is only about 75 miles from Preston), rather than driving back to Scotland late at night on Saturday
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.
Moderator
Location: Ayrshire
Posts: 1,359
I'm OneOfTheSevenModsWhoToldMarcoNotToLiftHarry'sBan.
Yes, I'll be coming down hopefully.
Thanks for the offer, very kind, but I have a passenger coming with me. In all honesty if I ended up back at yours, I'd probably end up staying for a week or so.
How many people are attending, Dominic?
ATB
David
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,460
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
No worries, daftee... Look forward to seeing you there!
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.
Member
Location: Lancs
Posts: 99
I'm Greg.
Mini meet in Lancashire
Many thanks to Dom and Natalie for their hospitality.
A very pleasant and instructive day for me. Good to meet up with a group of knowledgeable and friendly people.
Regards
Greg
Trade: Northwest Analogue
Location: Preston, UK
Posts: 851
I'm Dominic.
Morning after the day before...........
Wow, what a day, I am exhausted after that
Many many thanks to everyone that came along and put up with Natalie and myself. I hope everyone had as good as day as we did. Being able to put faces to names and get to know you guys, plus get to know you so much better was fantastic.
Not wishing to single anyone out, but I must say a huge thankyou to David, (Mains Cables R Us) for getting the new mains blocks and leads to me before the day commenced and also bringing some other goodies along.
I will add some more a bit later when I have recovered some more and also when other folks have posted their thoughts.
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Posts: 9,074
I'm ILOB.
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