Looks a bit like an old FR-24 from that angle…😀

The Beecham is the LP on my avatar picture! You can just about see the gold label… I also have both versions, stereo and mono.

You do realise that that is THE recording of Scheherazade with Reiner and the CSO. The one that launched a thousand audiophile reissues! BTW, I’ve just ordered a PCF802 MM phono stage from an enthusiast amp designer in Romania. It’s a very simple, pure design, and is being customised for use...

The arm is a Vestigial, and the coffee table is by G-Plan. So 1970!

Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference, methinks…

Where we are today: An Ortofon ST-M72 SUT should be arriving tomorrow. It will be interesting to see how well it matches the SPU #1E. BTW, I picked up a backup #1E for 350€ from a retailer in Paris. Brand new. That’s what Ortofon charges for a retip…

Baby 845s…

So basically it’s a headphone power amp with a passive preamp!

Aren’t the Clearaudio MMs just highly modified AT95s?

It does look rather like a British electric kettle lead…

Just bought a used pair of DT-1350 CC on eBay. They are so far ahead of my modded, recabled T51p that it is almost amusing. At last a pair of portable on-ears suitable for classical music! It’s just a shame there is nothing comparable being made today. Not all of us like wearing IEMs…

Do you have some more information on that €300 mono cartridge? I’m looking for a step up from my AT MONO3/LP, and will be going to Beijing for a couple of days next month.

Won’t a cast iron platter rule out the use of MC cartridges?

My personal preference would be for an Eumig FL-1000uP, if one comes up at a sensible price and the heads can still be serviced (I think they were made by Alpine). Alternatively, for more sensible money, a good old Nak BX-300…

Any views on HX Pro?

Maybe I should start hoarding tapes in case I ever go back in…

He’s the ZX-7 was a good deck. And the RX-505 was too cool for words back in the day…

Same here! IIRC, I also used to like Ampex 472 cassettes (when I could get them). Deck was a Nakamichi CR-1E.

For the best speed stability I used to use C-60 cassettes, which were less prone to stretching (or so it was said at the time).

Of course BASF’s tape division was eventually spun off into Emtec Magnetics. This company failed, all tape manufacturing equipment was sold off to RMG International in the Netherlands, but they too appear to have been out of the tape business for over 10 years now…. Apparently, the equipment was...

IIRC, Revox decks were supposed to work particularly well with BASF tapes. I think they were one of the few manufacturers to use true chromium dioxide tape stock, rather than cobalt based “pseudochrome”.

Surely Schiit should be powered entirely by biogas…

The closest thing to a closed-back Grado (I’m not counting the Bushmills, as they are vented and provide zero isolation).

Weniger ist mehr… Off to visit the Bauhaus (should it be „bauhaus“ ???) again on Saturday 😀

Original Braun L530s: Designed by Dieter Rams.