A Garrard 2025TC was my very first deck!
A Garrard 2025TC was my very first deck!
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I've 'experienced' a couple of these myself in the distant past. Horrendous!Originally Posted by MartinT
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Oh yes, I ripped mine from an old Dansette music centre! Nasty, and had a ceramic cartridge too.
My first proper deck was a Connoisseur BD1.
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Here's an interesting thing that may slip by relatively unnoticed. A pair of Philips motional feedback speakers - They're relatively unknown & the title and description don't do these speakers justice at all. They'd make a great second system or a cheap computer system with a volume controlled DAC, as they're active. No foam rot, as they have rubber surrounds!
3-way actives with a 40 watt amp on the bass and 20 watts covering the mid/treble. They sound great and proved too expensive to make, so weren't on the market for all that long.
Nice price so far and not long to go!
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Snap !
Think my first was also a Garrard
TAD CD / DAC / Pre, Technics 1210, MCRU PSU, Mike New Bearing & Platter, Stillpoints LP1 weight, Speedy Steve Ebony armboard, Fidelity Research FR64FX arm, Ortofon SPU. Aurorasound VIDA Phono Pre Amp, TAD Power Amp, TAD E1 speakers. Coherent RTZ 3 Grounding box, Coherent grounding cables, Creaktiv racks. Coherent Mains Cables. SR Blue Fuse. Interconnects : Coherent and Yannis 223.5 Connect Litz. Coherent speaker cable. Audio Magic Transcendence Conditioner. Coherent mains socket. Mains Filters : , PS Audio Harvesters, Russ Andrews Purifiers, Tacima, Vertex. Black Ravioli and RDC supports. Electric Beach S1NX platforms for TAD CD and Technics. Ferrite chokes everywhere except the above. Ears, brain
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Bit harsh!
The 2025TC was actually one of Garrard's first lightweight tonearm efforts and is much less of a groove-grinder than some of its predecessors.
If you find yourself with a few spare pounds and a few spare hours at some point, try buying one and giving it a once-over. Then fit it with a Sonotone 9TAHC cartridge with a nice new stylus, plug it into an amp that has a proper ceramic cartridge input (not just into a line input) and be prepared for a surprise....
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Jeez... What would you be using them for?Lovely - and collection in Newbury. I'm bidding!
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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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These are the baby brothers of the original Phillips RH541 (I believe that was the model No.), which sounded quite astonishing. All the Phillips MF speakers sounded pretty remarkable for their size and used very good quality drive units.
The most famous MF speaker is of course the Bose 901, which caused a huge stir when the first model was released in the seventies. Although you could never describe them as 'neutral', even today the way they can shake the ground with powerful bass that extends flat to around 20Hz., is spectular, all the more so coming from such a small box (they are the only Bose speaker I've ever wanted to own mind you).
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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Just come back from a couple of days at the Caernarvon Arms down there...delicious food
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