"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Tue, 22 May 2007 23:43:20 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

OK. Lemme tell ya summat for nowt...

A short while back I met 'Mr X' when I bought the first of two recent
'bikes and we got on to hifi (as you do). He is/was an avid
'enthusiast'
and had 9 pieces (I'm sure he said) of Cyrus kit, Impulse 'Lali' (?)
speakers and no vinyl - ie *blameless* to a fault (the perfect ukra
paradigm)!

As of now (a number of 'seshes' later) he has 300B SET monos, Lowther
'horns' and (as of yesterday) a Lenco GL75 turntable in natty steel
plinth.

Go figure....

(He still has his CD player, you'll be pleased/relieved to hear!)

Go figure again...

(And I have his colleague's TLS80s... ;-)


And probably the neat little valve preamp I came away with last
night.....



This is all fine. We all love to go into the hall of mirrors at the
fair, don't we?



He hasn't *gone into* the hall of mirrors, he has *moved into* it - the
Cyrus gear has all been sold, I gather.

You need to know I'm not *selling* anything, Don Old (other than when I
*am* selling summat) - when people come here for a listen and start
making better or worse noises, I shrug my shoulders. I have a ton of
*everything* and I like it all - right now is DAB on SS amp, later (much
later if this sun holds) will probably a bit of vinyl on triodes/horns
at some point.

(There's one or two here could do with a trip to the hall of mirrors
when it comes to throwing the 'bigot' word around...)