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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I'm Alex.
Location: Middlesex, UK
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I'm Alex.
They are a squared frame version of the bass unit used in the Mezzo, which had a bi-radial frame front. The Radford is not vinyl skinned as per most Goodmans bass drivers of the time, it is doped. I believe it is very similar to the Achromat 400 bass unit, as may be the midrange. They even used an ABR derivative in the Dimension 8.
(and I do recall Cooper Smith)
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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I'm James.
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I'm Andr'e.
Location: Middlesex, UK
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I'm Alex.
These are the Goodmans bass units I've usually seen in Radford 180's
http://img.canuckaudiomart.com/uploa...rebuilding.jpg
Blimey, you remember Cooper Smith, it was a good amp, the Prodigy, but only mono.
Spendorman
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I'm Andr'e.
Alex:
Mail me i aint heard anything from you for a bit..
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Really good amps these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Technics-s...item3ce775b637
Worth £200 all day long IMO.