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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
    Un - bloody - believable

    You don't see it do you, I am shouting at a brick wall, nothing goes in.

    OK I should have done this a couple of pages ago.

    If you are into the modern computer based concepts of audio then please buy AVI - do not even consider listening to NVA, it is not in the same league, do not waste your time.

    AVI wishes to grow and become a big company and its design and marketing for perceived niche in the *market* means it deserves success and your support.

    NVA does not wish to compete with AVI in any way and it humbly submits to an obvious superiority.

    How can a pedantic old git with a soldering iron and solder blobs on his troosers possibly compete with that. Well obviously it cannot. I am happy just being me, staying small and building amps and cables for people who ask me to on ebay. That is the only reason I started again, I didn't want to! I make a perfectly good living teaching Qigong and Tai-Chi Chuan. I hate this industry and its delusional bullshit and I don't want to be part of it. I teach in th evening so I have time during the day to build things I want to in order to listen to music the way I want to. If you are stupid enough to buy them so be it!

    Now can this thread *please* go back to a good old entertaining rant.

    signed

    Grumpy Old Git.

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    Have a look at my post about buying a sub-woofer last week. I expect your 80w + amps would be ok with that, providing they don't clip and distort and blow up the speakers like cyrus stuff does.

    I heartily agree that HiFi mags haven't got a clue and need more of a "solder blobs on the trouser" understanding.

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    Richard,

    I can give you moderator rights just for this room, if you like. Then you're really in charge!

    Would you like that?

    Marco [giggles mischeviously]
    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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    If he banned me he wouldn't have anyone else to talk to !

    I'm going back to my own thread, I'm taking my rant with me too !

    Where's the smilies gone ? you can never find anything when you want it ! D'ohh.

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    LOL. I wouldn't give him the rights to ban anyone, just move, delete, and edit posts. That alone could be tons of fun, though!

    Why not have your own room just like this one? Then Richard could 'invade' yours...

    Richard,

    With regard to semolina, when was the last time you ate it? Your taste buds might have changed!

    Marco (who's not eaten semolina since he was about 4).
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    LOL. I wouldn't give him the rights to ban anyone, just move, delete, and edit posts. That alone could be tons of fun, though!

    Why not have your own room just like this one? Then Richard could 'invade' yours...

    Richard,

    With regard to semolina, when was the last time you ate it? Your taste buds might have changed!

    Marco (who's not eaten semolina since he was about 4).
    AHH!
    but in many ways I am still 4

    Responsibility no thanks, just get on with what we pay you for young sprog

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcbrum View Post
    I bet your amp doesn't even have an iPod dock ?
    Nor does mine...... And it never will either!!!

    Poxy little things!

    Shian7
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    kudakutemo

    ari mizu-no tsuki

    Though it be be broken -
    broken again - still it's there:
    the moon on the water.

    - Choshu.

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    Well, that may be true, but have you ever tried one ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcbrum View Post
    Well, that may be true, but have you ever tried one ?
    Have you ever tried sticking your head in a gas oven and striking a match to find the leak.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcbrum View Post
    Have you really got a PBB Mike ? (delete=Richard)
    No, I'm afraid not; that was just Pye in the sky. Do have a few black boxes, though!

    RICHARD I yield to your ranting expertise and respect your private little chamber, as I do your designer and manufacturing reputation. Must investigate your phono stage to see if it would be compatible with a Koetsu I hope to buy soon.

    BUGGER; meant to post this in Room 102; trespassing again!!

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