Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

@Chalfie

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Went to Mojo in E Dulwich yesterday and it's gawn. Closed. Kaput.

On the upside, it's now a rehearsal studio.

Wharfedale 304's.

Talk to me people...

Hi is anyone here interested in a
thorens td125 turntable ?
PM me if so

Hi peeps. Just installing some hifi in a mate's flat. Was looking for an external antenna cable for the radio. This is the nearest thing I can see, but has two strange little co-ax plugs with bare wire coming out the end. Anyone know what it is? Ta

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Tend to get used more for satellite dishes/cable than aerials, although I have seen aerials occasionally use them and you can get an adapter.

If it's a flat in a block the whole block is often wired for Sky or Cable. I've been in flats that didn't have any normal aerials.

It's an F-type coax connector (if you're looking for an adaptor), probably for cable/sky as Aggi says.

Hmm. Will try have a look at the roof and see, difficult to get line of sight from the street. Yeah I thought sky dish too, although never seen one before. Wonder if if there's a way of checking. Thanks for info!

yup, look identical to my sky dish leads, you can buy a cheap box and a freest card for freeview

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If it's just FM the owner wants then perhaps consider a 300Ohm Balanced Feeder 'T' Ariel, assuming the Tuner has a 300 Ohm i/p. ? Most tuners will accept a T aerial (2 little screw/spade connectors usually) and if not a Balun transformer will convert a 300Ohm T type to a 75Ohm coax albeit at a slight loss due to transformer core and winding losses. I don't know if Cable/Sky type installations carry FM signals over the same cable, I wouldn't have thought so TBH.

Having said that, a cable box might have a 75ohm FM aerial outlet to feed your tuner if those cables are connected to a communal Satellite/ Cable system.

The fact there are two of them screams dual LNB satellite feeds to me (Sky+ requires an input for each tuner so you can record one thing whilst watching another as the LNB isn't entirely passive).

Good point Mr bank.

Mind you, if the HiFi tuner is a good 'un a bit o' wet string in Lundun is a good enough FM Antenna quite often I've found!

Also, whilst talking Tuners...very important to remember that you can also Tune a guitar but you cant Tuna Fish.

Coat grabbed.

I hate to see it go, but can't defend the cost of storage for all my crap:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/261945498304?

Quick question. just listed the following on ebay(starting tomorrow evening). Was it worth the effort or are they just charity shop jobs?

JBL MX1500 floor speakers
AR Status S 20 bookshelf speakers
Technics SL-PG490 cd player
Technics SU-V60M2 amp

Bought them all 10yrs ago during uni off a mate, remember him saying they were all good quality but nothing to write home about. Does this sorta stuff still sell? Seems clunky and over the top to me!
Listed the amp, cd player and Status speakers starting at a tenner each and a score for the JBL's just cos they're big. It's all collection only so guess I've nothing to lose...

Good solid kit for a very low price. It's not worth a lot today, even back then this is your run of the mill "first separates" equipment. It produced a fairly good loud noise, great for parties but lacking finesse. Unfortunately old equipment only holds price where finesse still shines through.

Cheers bossman! Yeah that's what I figured. My mate described exactly as such - was his first proper hi-fi when he left for boarding school.
My boss is a hi-fi nerd and collects a specific era of b&w speakers and is happy to pay out a small fortune for them but knew mine was never in that ballpark.

Hopefully someone wants something old and cheap. If anyone wants to make me an offer on any or all of it I can do pics etc and will end the ebay listings.

Just took delivery of a Canton DM 50 sound base for telly and movie duties, sounds good but after about 20 minutes it emits an electronic 'yelp' that makes you just about have a heart attack, terrifies the dog and makes the baby cry. It then emits loud static until switched off.

Nothing more annoying than new stuff failing like that.

Thanks for that link.
Great to see the amp I gave away selling for £750.
Le fucking sigh.

The Yamaha? Probably only worth half that before a recap/mods, but I get your point.

JBL MX1500

I have a saved search on ebay for floor speakers in walking distance and these showed up. As @Velocio says a bit low level, but surely someone will pick up at £15!?

I promise I have some nice speakers and a turntable in the living room and I know bluetooth is not hifi, but:
Anyone found a good powerful wireless speaker I can use with my iPhone? I had a Monitor Airstream S300 for about ten minutes. Sound was lovely but it kept dropping out (airplay only, no bluetooth). I need something loud enough to use at my increasingly dull middle-aged Christmas party.

I think he got evicted. Which I guess makes a change from people just being priced out of the neighbourhood.

Have you seen 'The Vamp' Mr Fintan?

My daughter got one, it's basically a Bluetooth Receiver, a DAC and an Amplifier in one tiny cube like box. You can connect it to any regular passive HiFi speaker. Works really well, more details here -> http://www.thevamp.co.uk/

Cheap solution?

The Bose ones are good, particularly the smaller ones. I've used the Mini Soundlink and the Colour Soundlink and they're reasonably loud and it's rare that they drop out even a room or two away. The next model up is meant to be decent too if you want something to fill a room a bit more.

I tried whatever the suggested Cambridge Audio one is (BT 100 or Go I think) and I found my phone had to be within a few feet for consistent playback.