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Post by Westie on May 6, 2024 19:19:49 GMT
This might explain to Audiophiles why i listen to cassettes, Buy cassettes from a certain time, why i listen to music from a certain date etc Westie try be patient with his beard lol I particularly agree with his comments about 3 mins in. What’s right for one person doesn’t have to be the same for others. Also his observations about the cultish nature of hifi.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2024 19:44:54 GMT
Its all about Nostalgia with me. Dont get me wrong i do like great SQ but the Nostagia part overshadows that for enjoyment & feel good.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2024 20:00:32 GMT
Man i love this guy
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2024 9:31:51 GMT
I knew a kid who had a pair of these with the AR LEGEND TT/NAGAOKA 'MP11' & a CRIMSON '610'/'620' Pre/Power sounded fantastic, i ended up buying the amp from him.
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Post by Westie on May 12, 2024 12:56:23 GMT
I really couldn’t get my head around the way AR were frowned upon in the UK when I started my hifi journey. The speakers always sounded good to me and the Legend Turntable looked to be a nice deck at a good price. I just assumed I wasn’t wise enough to judge, and believed the mags instead.
BTW they still sound really good on that video. Sure, I know it’s only Youtube and it’s a simple recording, but I still think you can tell.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2024 13:05:10 GMT
Even the cheaper AR 'EB101' sounded good but the flimsy chipboard plinths fell to bits
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Post by baggs on May 18, 2024 13:13:13 GMT
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Post by Westie on Jun 16, 2024 8:38:35 GMT
I would’ve loved to go but I’d need a van lol.
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Post by Westie on Jun 18, 2024 9:32:19 GMT
If I had a huge house and a load of money, that’s what my storage would look like!
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Post by baggs on Jun 19, 2024 14:05:31 GMT
If I had a huge house and a load of money, that’s what my storage would look like! Alright then. But what about Americans?
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Post by baggs on Jun 19, 2024 14:06:47 GMT
My god don't let me loose in there lol I'm sensing a shitload of dried-out paper capacitors
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Post by Idiot! on Aug 22, 2024 12:09:33 GMT
Brilliant those Hoover 'Constellation' they made them from the 50's to 80's. My mother had a gold coloured one
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Post by Westie on Aug 22, 2024 15:44:04 GMT
Maybe it’s my dodgy memory but I don’t recall them. I think we had a Hoover upright. Best suction I’ve had was Dyson DC01 but it was pretty heavy.
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Post by Idiot! on Aug 22, 2024 16:03:46 GMT
We need a new hoover but im at a loss cos they are all wank. I hate those skinny thin thing that work on a two bit motor.
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Post by dsjr on Aug 22, 2024 17:26:45 GMT
We're a two-Dyson family, with ancient DC03 upstairs and a heavy DC07 which all but clamps itself to the carpet, making it a *man's* vacuum cleaner (I ain't being sexist as the thing on this carpet is almost impossible for me to move back and forth!). Both twenty odd years old and the 07's on a replacement motor now.
We'd like a used vacuum in the garage. First option, was to look for an old working 'Goblin' cylinder type, but I fancied a Henry type as we had one in the Northampton store (they were made not far away back then). eBay has loads of kind-of-clones for thirty quid, but I wonder how long they'd last, even for that kind of use. There's a place just up the A12 from us that sells refurbished Henry's with new tools and so on for seventy quid, pictured individually in spotless cleaned condition. Seriously tempted, but this'd be too good really unless the vendor would give us some tatty tools for garage/car use.
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