Just treated myself to this Ortofon MC15 Super II at a very reasonable £73. Seems these are well liked, not had this particular Ortofon MC before.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2711712941...84.m1497.l2649
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Just treated myself to this Ortofon MC15 Super II at a very reasonable £73. Seems these are well liked, not had this particular Ortofon MC before.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2711712941...84.m1497.l2649
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Lets hope it's penis arrives straight this timeOriginally Posted by walpurgis
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Lol... Trust me, James, you wouldn't be saying that if you heard them here! Your description of their sound is totally alien to me, with CD or vinylHehe, on the end of some very fine [IMO] transistor amps they sounded boxy, coloured & harsh with no treble. I never tried them with valves myself but I do agree, valve amps can & often do make poor speakers more palatable
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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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This looks like a nice amp.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pure-Sound...00908090188%26
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Same as mine.
Cracking amp.
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I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, I'm starting to suspect something was amiss as from my experience of them I initially found it shocking anyone liked them... They really were that bad! Guess mine were shaggedLol... Trust me, James, you wouldn't be saying that if you heard them here! Your description of their sound is totally alien to me, with CD or vinyl
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Nice pair of IMF TLS50 Mk.II transmission line speakers, in Surrey. These deserve the 'Classic' description. They were IMF's domestic sized (just about) TL floorstanders at the time and sounded pretty spectacular.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/IMF-TLS50-...item33809cbdfb
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very good it is especially on the end of my Tannoys, knocks the spots off quite a few more expensive amps
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Lafayette el84 power amp , Audio note M1 pre , Tannoy Sterlings, Garrard 301 , SME 3012 , puresound P10, Ortofon SPU, Cambridge CXN streamer
Micro mega Duo 3 cd transport ,
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Could be, mate, but I doubt it - more likely a simple lack of sonic synergyI'll give them the benefit of the doubt, I'm starting to suspect something was amiss as from my experience of them I initially found it shocking anyone liked them... They really were that bad! Guess mine were shagged
There is so much vintage gear around that gets unfairly panned today by the uninitiated, simply because it has been heard in the wrong context - and moreover, because its performance was held back by the inferiority of some of the equipment that would've originally partnered it during the same era
That's one of the reasons, for example, why the humble old Goldring G800 cartridge (or Shure M3D) can sound superb, partnered with modern phono stages, preamps, cables, etc, which no longer hobble it. There are many more examples I could quote of this, with vintage amps, speakers, turntables - all sorts!
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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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