Location: England
Posts: 614
I'm Mark.
Is this thread turning into a free-for-all advertising section. Christ-on-a-bike, if Ashley James had gone on a quarter of the amount some have on here, he'd have been banned for life with no redress - oh, that's right, he is.............
Tear down these walls; Cut the ties that held me
Crying out at the top of my voice; Tell me now if you can hear me
Indeed....
Remember, folks, that blatant advertising of one's blog, with links provided, (<cough>, Howard, <cough> ) is only permitted in the trade area.
Ta!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/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. LDR Stereo Coffee. 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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Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex
Posts: 7,103
I'm Dave.
Are some people jumping the gun a bit here ?
Hi-Fi Choice is up for sale and not necessarily closing down.
Meanwhile, I have heard that another of our Hi-Fi mags has a circulation of just under 1200 per issue. How long before that one goes ?
Location: Epping
Posts: 716
I'm Richard.
Hi-Fi Answers
Hi-Fi Sound
Popular Hi-Fi
What Hi-Fi
And the relatively newly acquired Gramophone.
And that is just Haymarket publishing - how many of them are still published - just the last two. Magazines come and go, but we are surely seeing the death knell now of paper publishing. The Sunday tabloids are showing reality, none of them make a profit and all of them are just egotists toys. Perhaps that will happen to Hi-Fi Rags, if we can find a rich enough hi-fi owning egotist
Does Abramovich or Lebedev like hi-fi ? or really any rich Russian oligarch will do.
Tear down these walls; Cut the ties that held me
Crying out at the top of my voice; Tell me now if you can hear me
It's a BLOG not a bloody business. You know - a FUN THING?
No ads
Not for profit!
Havent't I given enough stuff away on this site to warranty a tiny transgression? Take, take and take rather than give & take.
Okay. Always one isn't there? Of course there is.
Now VERY SERIOUSLY PISSED OFF!
Well, hello.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/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. LDR Stereo Coffee. 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.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
Sorry for the diplomacy if its misplaced but i have no intentions of buying a Benchmark DAC at the moment but im pleased Howard provided a link to the interview with its designer. I found it very interesting.
Technic 1210, PS3, AVI neutron 2.1, Icon Audio p1 phono stage.