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Nice one, Stu. Are you nearer Brittany then, than Normandy, or is my geography rather pish?
I love the older part of Domfront, in the higher part of the village, up along the little cobbled streets. There are some quaint bars up there, small convenience stores where serious wine bargains are to be had, and really good restaurants!
Do you live off the beaten track in rural France? That's the REAL France, as far as I'm concerned
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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Location: France. Yup, still France>
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I'm Stu.
Yes we're in Britany.Originally Posted by Marco
Nice one, Stu. Are you nearer Brittany then, than Normandy, or is my geography rather pish?
I love the older part of Domfront, in the higher part of the village, up along the little cobbled streets. There are some quaint bars up there, small convenience stores where serious wine bargains are to be had, and really good restaurants!
Do you live off the beaten track in rural France? That's the REAL France, as far as I'm concerned
Marco.
We're on a "main" road (the house was a restaurant when we bought it - ran it for 3 years then turned it into a house - French cuisine not English!!!)
Were at a place called Kerbiquet in the corner of 56/22 and 29. Most of the traffic going by us is agricultural to be fair.
Sadly just started out 8 months of being on the wagon....roll on May
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I used to drive up the Taconic State Parkway in NY several times a year to see my Dad, who lived there. As my (Xerox) HQ was in Rochester, I got to know NY state very well end to end. Fantastic scenery, and great skiing in winter at Hunter Mountain and Catamount in nearby Massachusetts. Lots of small towns where some of the locals had never been outside the state, never mind the country.
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Crazily there will be people in our village and around about that will not have ventured out of the town...ever. Bizarre in a way.
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