Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Would avoid putting them in the alcove if you can.

Its not going to fit, so you might as well give them to me

Just buy a bigger house. Sorted.

I want a house with a solid floor, that's for sure.

I have read that they are okay near walls - I guess I will have to try it and see (when the wife is out...)

can anyone lend me their soldering skills? I prob should try myself, but don't want to cock it up.

The curas are likely to be for sale, if you want...

NNNNG.

Out of interest - why a dj turntable?
(i had two, but sold them)

I read on a hifi forum about people making some fairly straight forward mods to them and them actually sounding pretty good. a guy was selling one cheaply (with most of the mods), so I thought I would have a go. I thought that I could easily sell it on for what I paid if it wasn't an improvement of the michell.

new arm/cart, an external psu and a modified main bearing, were the mods. the psu/bearing are actually quite expensive (more than I paid for the whole tt!). you can get new feet, new mats and if you are feeling flush a whole new platter (£££). I am pretty happy with it. I might try the feet, but I really need to stop spending and start selling...

These curas. Tell me more.

The sl1200 range is a lot better than most people assume. Even stock, with a reasonable cart it is pretty good.

As BRM says, with a few mods it can give a lot of "hi-fi" decks a run for their money, and it doesn't tend to fall apart after a few years either.

I sold mine because I got good price!

British made 2 way floorstanders from about 2000. Really well made and quite rare, they were pretty expensive new (about £1200, apparently!).

They sound great. Incredible midrange and treble, with tight bass. They don't do the bass like the tannoys, but that is 6.5" v 10" drivers.

I got them for a steal, so if you are interested, I won't want stupid money for them.

As I have said - you are welcome to head over to tressillian towers for a session. Bring biscuits.

First go at replacing some perished foam surrounds. Thankfully on my second/kitchen system. Pretty straightforward, just takes a while. Hardest part is making sure the cone is centered over the voice coil before gluing them down.

@BRM what soldering skills do you need?

Also reply to my text!!

Good job. There is no way I'd attempt that.

I need to take off the spring clips on the tannoys and replace with binding posts. I need to be a big boy and do it myself. I need to make up a couple of speaker cables too.

I didn't ge a text from you, esse. Was it one of those iMessages?

Big African Sunset. We can both solder and have all the stuff.

Yeah probably. Fired you a PM

^^Stupid imessages. Have just twigged that is why you didn't get my texts the other week.

For the re-foam I used a kit from here: http://speaker-repairs.co.uk/shop/refoam/index.html

Very good instructions actually made it a lot easier than I had expected tbh

Cool. I'll drop you a line when I back in London

Managed to get my Chromecast firmware updated with a different router. Now works again! Cheers for advice/links forum peeps

Nice one. That bug sounds so annoying.

http://www.factmag.com/2017/01/31/vintage-bbc-technics-studio-turntables-console-sale-ebay/

That a top load washing machine?