Vintage Hi-Fi

Ivor · Post by **Ivor** » Fri Jul 11, 14 9:27 am

If it works well Dave, I can't blame you, my Garrard is probably worth twenty quid, but it works for me!

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Fri Jul 11, 14 9:45 am

Dave wrote:Some fancy looking decks there.

I'll stick with my boring old Linn Sondek LP12 thanks.

That wouldn't be overkill at all for for Jems amps would it, Dave ? You're just showing off !

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Fri Jul 11, 14 9:47 am

got me one of these before they got silly expensive

the lights dim when you switch it on

cast iron case on the motor n everything....

smells proper but thats monograde SAE30 and slick 50 i use in the bearing.

anyone with a off cut of marble.....grave stone you don't need due to dramatic recovery or some such i want to make a nice plinth for it

my tube amp was a KIT Jem ...solder it and bolt it together. very much join the dots, not hard

400 quid when i did mine 10 years ago

bit more now

http://www.world-designs.co.uk/kt88.htm

Single input power amplifier kit: £1150.00 (Built and Tested £1525.00)

was going to say buying a kit reduces the cost of valve amp ownership to manageable but it doesn't seem to anymore

i liked the festival IIs becasue they were small house/flat/wife friendly

and didn't mind being abused by 70s 100 Watt transistor amps. work best on a good solid stand

but i'd take a pair of tannoy golds any day...they do tend to be a similar price to a Toyota Yaris mind.... and they'd pin you to the wall in your boat.

here some MS carnival for a £10

basicaly half the man of a festival 40 watt rated not 80 and possibly missing their bushed ally trim but competant and UK made (back then)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mordaunt-shor ... 386wt_1275

dave

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Fri Jul 11, 14 5:35 pm

Ivor wrote:Here you go Jem, a Goldring Transcription deck, no vinyl freak should be without one!

I've got one of these babies, a Garrard AT 60

Talking my era now

Or how about an Oracle Delphi?

Finally, 150 large buys you the absolute nobblers!

Funny you should bring up that Goldring Ivor as I've got my eye on this and it looks identical but it's a Leak/Lenco affair. What's going on there then?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231278827100? ... EBIDX%3AIT

keV8 · Post by **keV8** » Sat Jul 12, 14 1:00 pm

Ivor wrote:If it works well Dave, I can't blame you, my Garrard is probably worth twenty quid, but it works for me!

I have an old Garrard White Box stashed away plays not only 45s, 33s, 78s but 15s as well

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Sat Jul 12, 14 1:22 pm

TW71 wrote:
Carl wrote:Best Turntable I ever had was my Rega Planar 3

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Do you use the felt mat Carl?

I have planer 3, 1979 vintage, rb200 arm rewired and tweaked by 'Audiokarma'

Like Dave999 says its a slippery slope. Mopars or serious Hi Fi?

Well maybe some can do both but both can get silly expensive.

I don't have the Turntable anymore, shame coz I loved it. It was in the 80's I got it maybe 85ish, I think they had just started putting the RB300 arm on it if I remember the sales guy saying, think it was Tungsten or the weight was, cant really remember. Yes I did use the felt mat. I had it going through an A&R Cambridge Amp, no Bass or Treble adjustment. And Wharfdale-Dovedale speakers (same as these I pinched pic off net)

keV8 · Post by **keV8** » Sat Jul 12, 14 1:22 pm

Carl wrote:keV8 on here has a pair of Tannoy Monitor Golds he has been thinking of selling. Speakers are 12inch in 3ft cabinets. Best speakers you can get.

Yeah, be sad but the golds might go to boost the goldfish restoration fund.

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Tue Jul 29, 14 2:49 pm

So I get some speaker cable and the correct plugs for the back of the amp and as you can clearly see just one wire is bigger than the whole plug.

What do I do here Dave?

Dave999 · Post by **Dave999** » Tue Jul 29, 14 3:09 pm

trim the cable ends so you have 2-3 mm

and solder carefully

make sure you lable you cabels at both ends + and -

trace the + from 1 end to the other and mark the other end as + as well

same with -

then wire the - to the black and the + to the red on the speakers

and wire the - to the fat pin and the + to the thin pin on the plug

jobs a goodun

as long as your have both sides exactly the same it matters not, just get an exact match...flatten your cable so you can trace 1 end to the other.

one speaker wired oposite to the other makes the geezer singing appear to be standing behind the rest of the band and the frequency extremes go a bit odd it all sounds flat....

left speaker poistioned in the room to the right and right speaker to the left will sound alright but peter townsend takes up the poistion of john Entwistle

and thats no good beak boy with whirling arm should be over to the right of the stage not messing about over where the bassy would normally be and roger and keith are facing the back of the stage

wierd

Dave

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Tue Jul 29, 14 3:31 pm

leak TL12 mono blocks

Yamaha NS-1000m

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Tue Jul 29, 14 5:30 pm

autofetish wrote:leak TL12 mono blocks

Yamaha NS-1000m

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Here's a mono block for sale. About £1100 out of my budget!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Rare- ... 3a9407f1f2

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Tue Jul 29, 14 5:31 pm

Dave999 wrote:trim the cable ends so you have 2-3 mm

and solder carefully

make sure you lable you cabels at both ends + and -

trace the + from 1 end to the other and mark the other end as + as well

same with -

then wire the - to the black and the + to the red on the speakers

and wire the - to the fat pin and the + to the thin pin on the plug

jobs a goodun

as long as your have both sides exactly the same it matters not, just get an exact match...flatten your cable so you can trace 1 end to the other.

one speaker wired oposite to the other makes the geezer singing appear to be standing behind the rest of the band and the frequency extremes go a bit odd it all sounds flat....

left speaker poistioned in the room to the right and right speaker to the left will sound alright but peter townsend takes up the poistion of john Entwistle

and thats no good beak boy with whirling arm should be over to the right of the stage not messing about over where the bassy would normally be and roger and keith are facing the back of the stage

wierd

Monster!!

Cheers Dave. What's a soldering iron?

Dave

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Tue Jul 29, 14 5:48 pm

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-X-2-PIN-SPE ... 2c7181f76c

Don't tell me, "what's a screwdriver?"

Jem · Post by **Jem** » Wed Jul 30, 14 5:39 pm

Was checking out the world's most expensive speakers. These could be yours for a cool £5m!

Trigger_Andy · Post by **Trigger_Andy** » Wed Jul 30, 14 9:04 pm

Just to join on a conversation I know nothing about.

I use those Speaker Terminals off-shore for connecting our Down Hole Pressure/Temperature Gauges to the Surface Accusation unit.