jimmy wrote:
Hi,

Firstly, I am absolutely not a troll!
or so -
remember, it must look pretty as well as sound good!

I am in the Glasgow area.

thanks,

Jim

ROTEL RA02 AMPLIFIER £350

ROTEL RCD02 CD PLAYER £370



Speakers MISSION M34 SPEAKERS £230

two CABLE TALK IMPROVED 3 INTERCONNECT (1/2 METRE) £16 each

CABLE TALK FLAT 2 BIWIRE SPEAKER CABLE £5 meter

if you wanted radio tuner ROTEL RT02 TUNER £270

all above http://www.superfi.co.uk


Project Debut Phono SB Turntable £140 From sevenoaks






If amp has no phono stage or £140 if it has



--
Dave xxxx
www.davewhitter.myby.co.uk

Music is Art - Audio is Engineering
Steam is Fun

In article , Dave xxxxx
writes
jimmy wrote:
Hi,

Firstly, I am absolutely not a troll!
or so -
remember, it must look pretty as well as sound good!

I am in the Glasgow area.

thanks,

Jim

ROTEL RA02 AMPLIFIER £350

ROTEL RCD02 CD PLAYER £370



Speakers MISSION M34 SPEAKERS £230

two CABLE TALK IMPROVED 3 INTERCONNECT (1/2 METRE) £16 each

CABLE TALK FLAT 2 BIWIRE SPEAKER CABLE £5 meter

if you wanted radio tuner ROTEL RT02 TUNER £270

Save yourself some dosh. Denon TU260 Mk2 for around 89 odd quid from
Richersounds. Excellent AM and FM tuner. Some people use these for
rebroadcast applications and monitoring. Excellent value for money.
Spend some of the saved money on a good aerial and cable. Not the crap
sold in the DIY sheds, a Triax or Unix from CPC or similar...

Trust me I'm a radio transmission engineer

--
Tony Sayer

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 20:27:21 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

In article , Dave xxxxx
writes
jimmy wrote:
Hi,

Firstly, I am absolutely not a troll!
or so -
remember, it must look pretty as well as sound good!

I am in the Glasgow area.

thanks,

Jim

ROTEL RA02 AMPLIFIER £350

ROTEL RCD02 CD PLAYER £370



Speakers MISSION M34 SPEAKERS £230

two CABLE TALK IMPROVED 3 INTERCONNECT (1/2 METRE) £16 each

CABLE TALK FLAT 2 BIWIRE SPEAKER CABLE £5 meter

if you wanted radio tuner ROTEL RT02 TUNER £270

Save yourself some dosh. Denon TU260 Mk2 for around 89 odd quid from
Richersounds. Excellent AM and FM tuner. Some people use these for
rebroadcast applications and monitoring. Excellent value for money.
Spend some of the saved money on a good aerial and cable. Not the crap
sold in the DIY sheds, a Triax or Unix from CPC or similar...

Trust me I'm a radio transmission engineer

Save yourself even more dosh by avoiding the latest models in
electronics - and don't spend *anything* on cables. Buy a system from
one dealer, and you'll get cables thrown in for free - they'll be all
you'll ever need.

Trust me I'm a precision analogue electronics engineer :-)


Richer Sounds (it's in Jamaica Street if you don't already know)

Cambridge Audio CD5 £99.95

Cambridge Audio A300 £139.95

Mordaunt-Short MS908 £499.95


Good alternative speakers from other stores a

B&W DM603S3 or KEF Q5 - £650 but you can get them for £600 from any
decent store.


Note the heavy spending bias towards the speakers in these
recommendations - this is not an accident. Modern electronics are
extremely good, so once you've got past the most basic trash, and used
a 'box shifter' like Richer Sounds to secure good stuff at bargain
basement prices, you have a lot more budget for what *really* makes a
difference to sound quality - the speakers. Mission and Wharfedale
seem to have very variable ranges these days, some good but some dogs,
so I'd tend to stick with solid 'strength in depth' makes like
Mordaunt-Short, KEF and B&W. If you're not fussed about really deep
bass, you should also look at the superb Dynaudio Audience 52, which
also comes in at about £600, but is a stand mounter, so allow an extra
£100 or so for decent stands from Target or similar. Regarding 'she
who must be obeyed', slim floorstanders like the others mentioned
above are often preferred visually, but sometimes lack the midrange
clarity of a top standmount like the Dynaudio.

In combination with the Cambridge Audio gear mentioned above (or spend
an extra £150 or so for the Cambridge Audio Azur 540 pair if you
really must have the latest 'prettiest' gear - available in black or
silver - let SWMBO choose and she can't complain later!), this will
give you genuine 'high end' sound for a *very* reasonable outlay.

BTW, the advice on the Denon TU260 (and aerial) was spot on - it's
still the best budget tuner around. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

BTW, the advice on the Denon TU260 (and aerial) was spot on - it's
still the best budget tuner around. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Awww! Fankx!.

Course you could seek out some decent speakers from yesteryear such as
the Spendor BC1's, could live with those quite easily if SWMBO ever
objected to the 63's on their stands.

Fortunately she's one of those rare wimmen who likes consumer audio
having her own QUAD 11's and 33/303/FM2 much updated, with 24/96 M audio
soundcard and LAN server with some few thousand tracks to draw from in
her playroom)

Simple really change yer SWMBO before yer speakers!....
--
Tony Sayer

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:54:01 +0100, tony sayer
wrote:

BTW, the advice on the Denon TU260 (and aerial) was spot on - it's
still the best budget tuner around. If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Awww! Fankx!.

Course you could seek out some decent speakers from yesteryear such as
the Spendor BC1's, could live with those quite easily if SWMBO ever
objected to the 63's on their stands.

I was unfortunate enough to hear a pair of those recently. I say
'unfortunate', because they have always been one of my fondly
remembered classic speakers, but I have to say that by modern
standards, they sound distinctly overwarm, almost muddy, in the bass,
with very average mid and treble definition. Still, on the bright
side, we have clearly made progress! The '63s remain a great speaker
however, with the 988 only building on those strengths and providing
as standard a number of well-known 'tweaks' to that classic design.

Fortunately she's one of those rare wimmen who likes consumer audio
having her own QUAD 11's and 33/303/FM2 much updated, with 24/96 M audio
soundcard and LAN server with some few thousand tracks to draw from in
her playroom)

Simple really change yer SWMBO before yer speakers!....

I hadn't planned on spending *that* much on new speakers! :-)
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

[snipm]

all above http://www.superfi.co.uk

In my experience Superfi never actually have anything they advertise in
stock.


--
Andrew Walls
Near the Arctic Circle
Norway
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