Gromit's music centre...

[Gromit]

Will do Dave - don't pop into Aylesbury so much these days as we're now up in Lincs but am gigging in London in a couple of weeks so will pop in and see Peter on the way home hopefully.

Most definitely one of the good guys.

Yup - the Pioneer makes a pretty damn good transport, only kept it because when it was retired from DVD duties (and it was going to get given away) someone 'in the know' told me to keep it. Glad I did.

[macvisual]

Need advice from you'se vinyl guru's about a basic moving magnet cartridge for my newly acquired Dual 504 turntable please?

I've an elderly Linn K5 cart which plays ok it seems, but the needle/cantilever seems not straight, strange....


Anyone have a spare cheap'ish mm cartridge lying about collecting dust they might want to part with maybe? Say under £50.

[DSJR]

Haven't I been here on another thread?

AT120E or 440MLa. Shure M97XE - any ED or V15 Shure - SAS tipped too , Stanton 681EEE, ADC XLM mk2 onwards, Sonus Gold Blue (on ebay for £85 or so, but watch the loading as it may need less than 47K to tame an ultra-sonic peak) in fact any medium to highish compliance cartridge apart from the wild ones like the Empire 1000ZE/X, ADC25/XLM mk1 and relatives)

[Gromit]

Peter - I'm (shameless plug sorry!) selling my SAS-tipped Shure M75 which might suit the Dual quite nicely, especially as the 504 wears a fairly low mass arm.

[Gromit]

A new addition...



Bought James' (Jagdesign) 103 Pro which arrived today.

Jury's out at the moment - the balance is good, all the usual 103 stuff is present and correct (ballsy, full-fat presentation with lots of colour) but I think I've been spoilt hearing a 103 in a more suitable arm than the Technics' standard one. On really heavy going you can 'hear' the arm breaking up - this is something I experienced when swapping a previous 103 between my older 1210 and the PL71. Thing is, I can't afford to change the arm on the 1210 - much as it would be nice to - so the Pro may not last all that long.

Still, we'll give it a few days and re-consider the situation.

[Gromit]

A new addition...well a pair of them...

[DSJR]

I've just noticed something, which may or may not have a bearing on the bass issues.. The rack is almost in a corner.

If you stick your head on the general vicinity of the deck when it's playing, is there an increase in bass there?

[Gromit]

I've just noticed something, which may or may not have a bearing on the bass issues.. The rack is almost in a corner.

If you stick your head on the general vicinity of the deck when it's playing, is there an increase in bass there?

Could do, Dave although with the Tecchy on top of its previous shelf it was even further into the corner. Saying that, the older shelf was a lower (<24" high) long and heavy oak unit which filled the corner of the room much better.

Saying that, there's a lot of bass/boom from digital sources too - no less than with the TT. The Altos are quite funky though and they don't half go loud on not a lot of juice!

[Gromit]

My (big) new baby...





Took a gamble with this - a good mate of mine was thinking of selling his TA-F3ES (he owns a TA-F777ES and the 3 was used as in a system in his study) and had been harping on about how good the ES amps were - and amongst them there were some real gems. He wanted less than 100 quid for his '3ES but the fact that it runs a mosfet stage put me off - if it went pop then I could be up le creeque de poo.

So, did a bit of trawling the www, and asking some long time ES fans for info I got this 670ES at the weekend, plus a 570ES Tuner as part of the deal.

I've not been going too ga-ga over the amp to start with, and have just let it settle in for a few days whilst I get used to its sound. Will put a more lengthy report into the review section as and when. It'll be providing my Royds (and Dean Altos) with some good clean Japanese watts at the Scalford show.

[The Grand Wazoo]

It looks to be in good nick Richard.
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............and there'll be none of that, thank you Marco & all you other Three Words Daily schoolboys!