"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:


So that's no more 'Oi You!' from you lot - it'll be *Mister* Oi You from
now on.....


Does your use of *bold* mean you will be *shouting* from now on, after you
decide the sound lowthers make is normal?



Oh I already know how it goes...

Moira - 'Best sound yet!'

Pat - 'Wow!! They don't make stuff like they used to! Cor, blimey, when I
wuz a lad they larfed at the Japs &c. &c.!! (The EX3s are 2 years old....)

Shiny Nigel (if he ever shows up again) - '*Brilliant*!!' (I've got a Diana
Ross album waiting....)

Strangers - Stunned silence...

Fellow 'audio enthusiast vistors' - Screwed up faces and feint praise...


And the best bit is - they only gotta please me! ;-)

(If they don't they'll be back on eBay for a wunnah more than I paid for
them. The only person I fear is Serge, if he got to hear them and thought
they were ****e, he wouldn't say so - he wouldn't need to...!! :-)

Keith G wrote:
"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
. ..
Keith G wrote:

So that's no more 'Oi You!' from you lot - it'll be *Mister* Oi You from
now on.....

Does your use of *bold* mean you will be *shouting* from now on, after you
decide the sound lowthers make is normal?



Oh I already know how it goes...

Moira - 'Best sound yet!'

Pat - 'Wow!! They don't make stuff like they used to! Cor, blimey, when I
wuz a lad they larfed at the Japs &c. &c.!! (The EX3s are 2 years old....)

Shiny Nigel (if he ever shows up again) - '*Brilliant*!!' (I've got a Diana
Ross album waiting....)

Strangers - Stunned silence...

Fellow 'audio enthusiast vistors' - Screwed up faces and feint praise...


And the best bit is - they only gotta please me! ;-)

(If they don't they'll be back on eBay for a wunnah more than I paid for
them. The only person I fear is Serge, if he got to hear them and thought
they were ****e, he wouldn't say so - he wouldn't need to...!! :-)



Let me know when you have them working, wouldn't mind another trip to St
Ives. BTW, I've made some changes to my own system, not the equipment,
but to the room. Got rid of a lot of unwanted mid/high reflections and
reduced the reverb time radically. Still have a few bass issues to
resolve, but for £ 300 or so for rockwool, timber and curtains to hide
it all behind, what a difference!

S.

S.

"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:
"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
. ..
Keith G wrote:

So that's no more 'Oi You!' from you lot - it'll be *Mister* Oi You
from now on.....

Does your use of *bold* mean you will be *shouting* from now on, after
you decide the sound lowthers make is normal?



Oh I already know how it goes...

Moira - 'Best sound yet!'

Pat - 'Wow!! They don't make stuff like they used to! Cor, blimey, when I
wuz a lad they larfed at the Japs &c. &c.!! (The EX3s are 2 years
old....)

Shiny Nigel (if he ever shows up again) - '*Brilliant*!!' (I've got a
Diana Ross album waiting....)

Strangers - Stunned silence...

Fellow 'audio enthusiast vistors' - Screwed up faces and feint praise...


And the best bit is - they only gotta please me! ;-)

(If they don't they'll be back on eBay for a wunnah more than I paid for
them. The only person I fear is Serge, if he got to hear them and thought
they were ****e, he wouldn't say so - he wouldn't need to...!! :-)



Let me know when you have them working, wouldn't mind another trip to St
Ives.



Will do, but you better make it St Neots - I'm hoping they'll go loud, but
St Ives is pushing it a bit!! :-)



BTW, I've made some changes to my own system, not the equipment,
but to the room. Got rid of a lot of unwanted mid/high reflections and
reduced the reverb time radically. Still have a few bass issues to
resolve, but for £ 300 or so for rockwool, timber and curtains to hide it
all behind, what a difference!



Hah! Funny you should say that - I'm definitely getting to the point where,
once I've settled on the speakers, I need to get summat up on the walls and
shut the room down a bit! Your suggestions in that department would be more
than handy, I reckon!! I've been pondering one or two of those flimsy,
patterned carpets (mats?) you see in heaps in garden centres and suchlike to
hang on the walls...???

In article , Keith G
wrote:


Hah! Funny you should say that - I'm definitely getting to the point
where, once I've settled on the speakers, I need to get summat up on
the walls and shut the room down a bit! Your suggestions in that
department would be more than handy, I reckon!! I've been pondering one
or two of those flimsy, patterned carpets (mats?) you see in heaps in
garden centres and suchlike to hang on the walls...???

FWIW My experience is that something like a rug hung on the walls can
improve the room acoustic quite markedly. Preferrably hung from something
like a curtain pole so it hangs a few inches away from the wall. Can also
look very nice if you choose a rug with a suitable pattern.

Slainte,

Jim

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Keith G wrote:
I'm being offered:

Roger A75 Panthera Amp
Rogers T75 Tuner

in a proposed swap - is this kit any good? If so, any idea of what it would
be worth, assuming fully serviceable and reasonably smart condition?

(I've no experience of it myself, but I have an inkling the tuner's fairly
well regarded??)

TIA


The A75 Mk 2 (don't know about the "Panthera" bit) was priced at £
169.50 + VAT in 1979. A Quad 303/33 pair with the same output power (45
W per ch) was £ 207.00 + VAT.

A Cambridge Audio P80 was £ 199 + VAT and an Armstrong 621 was £ 120 + VAT.

This may give you some idea where the Rogers fitted into the scheme of
things at the time.

At a guess, the amp is worth £ 50-£ 80 and the tuner £ 30-£50 on Ebay.

S.

"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
...
Keith G wrote:
I'm being offered:

Roger A75 Panthera Amp
Rogers T75 Tuner

in a proposed swap - is this kit any good? If so, any idea of what it
would be worth, assuming fully serviceable and reasonably smart
condition?

(I've no experience of it myself, but I have an inkling the tuner's
fairly well regarded??)

TIA


The A75 Mk 2 (don't know about the "Panthera" bit) was priced at £ 169.50
+ VAT in 1979. A Quad 303/33 pair with the same output power (45 W per ch)
was £ 207.00 + VAT.

A Cambridge Audio P80 was £ 199 + VAT and an Armstrong 621 was £ 120 +
VAT.

This may give you some idea where the Rogers fitted into the scheme of
things at the time.

At a guess, the amp is worth £ 50-£ 80 and the tuner £ 30-£50 on Ebay.



OK Serge - thanks for that. Pretty much what I expected! ('Interesting
shrapnel'.....!!)

In article ,
Keith G wrote:
I'm being offered:

Roger A75 Panthera Amp Rogers T75 Tuner

in a proposed swap - is this kit any good? If so, any idea of what it
would be worth, assuming fully serviceable and reasonably smart
condition?

(I've no experience of it myself, but I have an inkling the tuner's
fairly well regarded??)

By whom?

Rodgers made decent budget gear, that's all.

--
*When you've seen one shopping centre you've seen a mall*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Ooh, while I'm on - did I mention me Lowthers have turned up just now?

So you've finally decided the bottom end from the tiny Fostex drivers is
not quite what it could be?

Well, the Lowthers should improve on this. But what you'll move on to when
you finally realise their *top* end isn't quite what it should be will be
interesting.

However, I'm sure over the next few weeks there will be tales of how the
milkman etc find them a true revelation and finer than anything else in
the world.

--


Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Ooh, while I'm on - did I mention me Lowthers have turned up just now?

So you've finally decided the bottom end from the tiny Fostex drivers is
not quite what it could be?

Well, the Lowthers should improve on this. But what you'll move on to when
you finally realise their *top* end isn't quite what it should be will be
interesting.

However, I'm sure over the next few weeks there will be tales of how the
milkman etc find them a true revelation and finer than anything else in
the world.



Wake TF up Plowie - I've swapped Fostex for Visaton in 3 pairs of different
speakers and mentioned here before that Fostex don't do bass! (Actually they
do, but I don't need to argue the point...)

Never mind the milkman or even the 5 or 6 subscribers *here* that have heard
the 'firewood horns' at various stages of their evolution - as I said
recently, it's what pleases me that counts at the end of the day, but I do
take heed from what others say as they very often *can* see the wood for the
trees.

Now, here's your chance - I'm open to suggestion (always), what is your own
recommendation for speakers?

In article ,
Keith G wrote:
Wake TF up Plowie - I've swapped Fostex for Visaton in 3 pairs of
different speakers and mentioned here before that Fostex don't do bass!
(Actually they do, but I don't need to argue the point...)

Never mind the milkman or even the 5 or 6 subscribers *here* that have
heard the 'firewood horns' at various stages of their evolution - as I
said recently, it's what pleases me that counts at the end of the day,
but I do take heed from what others say as they very often *can* see
the wood for the trees.

They seem to give you pleasure for a few minutes before you move on to
your latest fad...

Now, here's your chance - I'm open to suggestion (always), what is your
own recommendation for speakers?

Not worth even mentioning to you. But lets just say I moved on from horns
and Lowthers 40 years ago.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.