SMC AS40 speakers, end in three hours, £50 starting price. Nice speakers, in Chesham.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SMC-AS40-S...item2c6bd18a13
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SMC AS40 speakers, end in three hours, £50 starting price. Nice speakers, in Chesham.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SMC-AS40-S...item2c6bd18a13
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Im still using a Loewe Mimo 32inch in one room and a Pioneer all singing/dancing 42in plasma in the other......still prefer the sharpness and clarity of the MimoOriginally Posted by Rare Bird
Gimmi a 60's trinitron anyday
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I bought one of the very first LCD TV's looks great compared to the present one but me being me i'm stuck in my ways of 60's Trinitron & Beetamaz vids
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I have some sympathy for that view, Andre (as indeed you and I often agree on these things)... Betamax was WAY better than VHS, but the 'big boys' wanted the latter to succeed for commercial reasons, so once again marketing triumphed over performance!
As for TVs, we have a 12-year old Sony Trinitron CRT TV, and it's going nowhere until it pops its clogs... First of all because I refuse to chuck out a perfectly good TV, which is functioning just fine, simply to be 'up to date', and secondly, because I find that the colours look much more natural on CRT TVs.
The colours on LCDs and plasmas just look wrong (artificial), to my eyes!
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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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Yep too right. I wouldnt be seen dead with a pre recorded Beta tho
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Yeah, I know what you mean
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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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You're not wrong there. I have a 30-year old 18" Mitsubishi CRT telly that has much better colour fidelity than any plasma, LCD or LED screen I've seen demonstrated. It may not be "hi-def", but it's staying!I have some sympathy for that view, Andre (as indeed you and I often agree on these things)... Betamax was WAY better than VHS, but the 'big boys' wanted the latter to succeed for commercial reasons, so once again marketing triumphed over performance!
As for TVs, we have a 12-year old Sony Trinitron CRT TV, and it's going nowhere until it pops its clogs... First of all because I refuse to chuck out a perfectly good TV, which is functioning just fine, simply to be 'up to date', and secondly, because I find that the colours look much more natural on CRT TVs.
The colours on LCDs and plasmas just look wrong (artificial), to my eyes!
Marco.
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I think a good CRT TV is a bit like a good old Quad amp - it's not accurate or the latest technology, but there's something quite pleasing about the portrayal ...
But I've moved away from both now! Having worked in film and tv for 20 years, accuracy and high resolution is important to me in an image. There are some stunning new tv's out there but they need careful calibration to get the best out of them, so you'll get the natural colours you want. Worth remembering that the vast majority of dealers who sell these fancy tv's don't bother setting them up right to demo them. Also worth bearing in mind that the vast majority of people who buy them probably don't bother to set them up right either!!
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Well it's like this Audio fans that are working by Spec are not gonna get anywhere imho..I work by my Tabs (Audio) & goggles (Visual).i'm not intrested what era they are from but they more often than not land back in late 60's/Early 70's, sometimes early 80's!!..Not getting anywhere are we??
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