The *NOT BORING!* Hi-Fi faff chat and sales

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Just downloaded FOC a 74 page technical guide to rebuilding and setting up my Linn Sondek table :D
 
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...and to think you could get better performance from a £50 eBay CD player... :mrgreen: ;)
 
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Ah but the Sondek was cheap see.......surprisingly so......plus the factory is 5 minutes from where I stayed as a nipper, so some sort of regional loyalty thing going on :D

I have to say it also sounds pretty good. As I was brought up on vinyl I kinda like it for certain stuff. Wouldn't pay serious money for one though.

Is that your modded Marantz down to 50 notes now then? Posted :xmas-big-grin:


To top it off I'm currently sitting with an A&R Cambridge A60 in bits in the kitchen - nothing technical - just replacing the mains lead before flogging it.

:p
 
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Have a look at the label inside the A60, see who's names are on it. I worked there for a bit from '85.

The Marantz has recently gone to a new home.

Just bought a Cambridge CD6 with a dodgy drawer for a bargain price (so my CD67 might be up for grabs in a while - that one has rather more mods than the one I just sold - it's my test bed). The CD6 machine is a superbly designed bit of kit - streets ahead of other players of similar price. I believe our mate Mr Self had a hand in it.
 
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apache":28yc3c85 said:
Have a look at the label inside the A60, see who's names are on it. I worked there for a bit from '85.

Here you go - 1986.......







:D

I now have a dilemma. The A60/NAD/Mordaunt-Short floorstander combo I've been listening to in the kitchen actually sounds really good and I was gonna sell it :|
Really relaxed and soft unlike the dictatorship Audiolab/Micromega/Mission tyranny which commands all who enter the living room to listen at high volumes or else! Sonic Attack Underway!!!
 
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Not one that passed through my hands, though Cathy sticks out in my mind as utterly mental. She operated the automated test rig which you popped the board in and a series of pins would press on pads under the board and make various measurements. She had a habit of pressing the board down a bit hard and grounding it on the metalwork below, resulting in mini explosions and smoke.

Think it's had new PSU caps at some point, they aint standard.

I always remember the A60 having a lovely unflustered sound which wasn't at all in your face but was detailed and in command all the same. Quite unlike some of it's competitors at the time.
 
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Remember trying one of those back in the day, i think i passed it up for something else, but remember it being a bit polite a bit too friendly and not a very full sound compared to others i was listening too as i recall, but good non the less......quite clear sounding but a bit thin........
 
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legrandefromage":1le9wvf4 said:
Wharfedale E50 up on t'ebay....

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and the Rogers LS6a

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0900167568

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Both sets now SOLD!
 
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