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I'm ILOB.
hey that forums for you
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Captain Tidy
Location: Wales
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I'm NotAnAudiophile.
Tis' a good point Chris and well presentedOriginally Posted by The Grand Wazoo
Some people have no idea what they're doing and a lot of them are really good at it.
George Carlin
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Location: London
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I'm Nat-andthat'swhyIdrink.
And one obvious from the start. IMHO
ELP Fanboy
Location: Yorks
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I'm Nobody.
Exactly what i did.Lol... Indeed, although that doesn't apply in my case, as I ditched 95% of my old record collection in the early 90s, to make way for CD, which I embraced using solely, to the highest level, sonically, until I got into vinyl again, around 10 years later!
Marco.
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Indeed, and that would've been the sensible thing to have done. Sadly, I wasn't always sensible
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.
Banned
Location: Lancaster(-ish), UK
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I'm ChrisB.
Never mind, the silver lining was that all us old fashioned types who stuck with vinyl had a few years of cheaply hoovering up those useless outdated licorice pizzas that you lot abandoned!
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Location: North-East England, UK
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I'm Harry.
I was newly married and skint. There was also the small matter of over 1,000 albums that would have had to be stored. I used to do record reviews in the local paper so got most of them for free. Still breaks my heart and its the reason I can't bear to buy a turntable. Much as I want to.
It's also the reason I have nine beautiful bikes including a road bike for each day of the week. Won't make the same mistake again. They're going nowhere unless I'm on one.
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Location: London
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I'm Nat-andthat'swhyIdrink.
Im fortunate to have missed the CD hype and wanted to play records because of all the cheap ones around at car boot sales, so bought my first deck off a school friend. Unfortunately though I still missed the boat when it came to cheap vinyl - should have spent my student loans on it rather than on keyboards.
Captain Tidy
Location: Wales
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I'm NotAnAudiophile.
bastards
Some people have no idea what they're doing and a lot of them are really good at it.
George Carlin
Boycott the US
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Location: N E Kent
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I'm Geoff.
Well, I kept my vinyl and got into CD as well. Still got them all (both formats) and love them all. I wouldn't want to part with my TT or CD! They're obviously different, but each sounds great in it's own way.
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