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Post by montesquieu on Oct 11, 2014 23:31:13 GMT
Hi There, only spotted this place tonight, nice to see a few familiar faces.
Greetings from Deepest Berkshire (well not really deepest, it's border country really).
Have been around the houses a long time and am largely 'vintage' at the minute
TD124 MkII / ATP12T + Jelco 750D / EMT XSD15 assorted 'SPUs' (stereo and mono) and various vintage cartridges as well
Longdog Audio MM valve phono stage
Audio Note CDT2/II and DAC 4.1x Balanced
Music First Audio MKII TVC
Radford STA100
Tannoy Canterburys
Into classical principally renaissance, baroque and classical chamber music, keybord music and vocal. Not much after 1850.
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 12, 2014 5:10:49 GMT
Hi there Tom and welcome to The Audio Standard. So nice that you've found us. You may already have seen by now that there's quite a bit here to interest the lovers of classical music.
Cheers
Chris
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Post by John on Oct 12, 2014 5:18:53 GMT
Welcome to TAS Tom glad you found us
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 12, 2014 7:05:13 GMT
Hi Tom
Welcome to TAS from Surrey almost Berkshire
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Post by MartinT on Oct 12, 2014 7:30:27 GMT
Hey, Tom, great to see you here. I must see where you are system-wise, but it's too early so for now, welcome to TAS!  |
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Post by jollyfix on Oct 12, 2014 7:34:10 GMT
Hi Tom, welcome to the forum
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Post by speedysteve on Oct 12, 2014 7:55:41 GMT
Hi Tom, Nice to see you here.
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Post by Paul Barker on Oct 12, 2014 8:48:58 GMT
hi
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Oct 12, 2014 10:15:33 GMT
Hi Tom, Ali Tait here, nice to see you here.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 12, 2014 10:39:15 GMT
Where did that Radford STA100 come from?!
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Post by montesquieu on Oct 12, 2014 20:09:35 GMT
Where did that Radford STA100 come from?! Hi Martin The STA100 is with Valvebloke at the minute ... the re-born Canterburys sound better with HPDs than Golds, but the 300b PP interstage WAD that I had wasn't quite up to the job of driving them (Hpds need a lot more welly than Golds). I bought a Lyngdorf SDA2175 as an interim step and it was quite an improvement, though that blew a channel, I suspect in a thunderstorm (Shuggy has it now). The Radford is the most powerful amp old Arthur designed 70w of KT88 PP, but it arrived it unexpectedly needed a new output transformer so a new pair have been wound courtesy of Will at Radford Revival and it's currently being fettled, ETA sometime next week. I really hope it will do the job. I've just picked up an Aurorasound Vida phono stage (you may remember we exchanged thoughts on that a while back as I had one in for trial) so my Longdog MM will be for sale, well chuffed with the purchase which was only last night! The Longdog is the oldest survivor in my system (over 4 years) and I never anticipated selling it so it will be a wrench. But the Vida is something rather special as you know. |
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Post by montesquieu on Oct 12, 2014 20:10:01 GMT
Oh and the answer where it came from is Finland!
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 12, 2014 20:22:48 GMT
That Radford's going to sound good - a bit of a rare beast Tom.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 12, 2014 20:52:18 GMT
I've just picked up an Aurorasound Vida phono stage (you may remember we exchanged thoughts on that a while back as I had one in for trial) so my Longdog MM will be for sale, well chuffed with the purchase which was only last night! The Longdog is the oldest survivor in my system (over 4 years) and I never anticipated selling it so it will be a wrench. But the Vida is something rather special as you know. Well done, that's a purchase you're not going to regret. The VIDA is indeed something special. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 13, 2014 7:31:42 GMT
I've just picked up an Aurorasound Vida phono stage (you may remember we exchanged thoughts on that a while back as I had one in for trial) so my Longdog MM will be for sale, well chuffed with the purchase which was only last night! The Longdog is the oldest survivor in my system (over 4 years) and I never anticipated selling it so it will be a wrench. But the Vida is something rather special as you know. Well done, that's a purchase you're not going to regret. The VIDA is indeed something special. And carries on delivering with upgrades elsewhere Stick both boxes on RDC cones for a very nice result |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 13, 2014 8:08:16 GMT
He means "both boxes" and I agree, both VIDA and its PSU respond nicely to RDC Cones (1 for the VIDA, 2 or 5 for the PSU).
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 13, 2014 8:25:53 GMT
Doh !
Now corrected
and I assume that is RDC-1, RDC-2 or RDC-5
I use 3 RDCs per box
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Post by MartinT on Oct 13, 2014 12:16:39 GMT
Yes and yes!
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