Carols from Cambridge: The Very Best Sacred Christmas Carols - Decca (Spotify)
Merry Christmas all...
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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.
Where have you been hiding Dave? Merry Christmas to you and Jo. Cheers.![]()
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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Marco.
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.
It's been hectic Geoff... The big ends went in the sleigh this morning and the elves have been running themselves ragged trying to find a workshop which could fix it this side of Christmas. Rudolph has come down with the flu - oddly his nose appears paler than usual. Mrs Claus suddenly declared last night (after all these years) that she hates me working nights!!! I ask you, one bloody night a year, it's not much to ask, is it?
Merry Christmas Geoff...![]()
Playing this on vinyl - the recent reissue.
Funnily enough it starts off in the frozen tundra of the Arctic, with the exploits of a chap called Nanook, and advising folk not to eat yellow snow.
Did you pass him on your travels Dave?
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Chris
Common sense isn't anymore!
Chris
Common sense isn't anymore!
Interesting mix today with both Vinyl & CD
CD:
Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash
CD
MCA Records
1971
Pink Floyd - The Endless River
2014
Pressie from best friend.
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
CD
1998
George Harrison - G.Harrison & Somewhere In England
CD
Import
George Harrison - The Concert For Bangla Desh & Cloud Nine
CD
Import
Vinyl:
Rush - Moving Pictures
1981
Phonogram Records
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
1984
Vertigo Records
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
1970
Early A1 - B1 Press
Sounds stunning
Fat Larry's Band - Breakin' Out
1982
Virgin Records
Lesley Duncan - Everything Changes
1974
GM Records
Dawn Landes - Bluebird
2014
Western Vinyl
More Too Come
Trio KA 3500 Amplifier
Denon/Mission SCM50 Loudspeakers
Thorens TD 125 MK1 Turntable with SME 3009 S2 Non Improved with Shure V15 II & SME 2000 Plinth
Technics RS D550W Cassette Deck