Systems In CD/Record Stores

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You obviously want a reaction from me.

Like I said before. Don't like my style, just ignore! Please get that through your skull, and let it sink in.


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Admin Edit: Breach of rules Don’t attack other members

Admin Edit: Breach of rules Don’t attack other members

I enjoy having Shane here. He’s started a lot of decent threads. The personal attacks here are against forum rules so those doing need to back off. If you don’t like a thread don’t read or comment. I will be deleting the offending posts once folk have had a chance to read. End of.

Who the F#ck is Shane ?

HMV Oxford St upstairs in the 'rock' room decades ago - TD150/Ortofon M15 cartridge (gold body and blue stylus), Quad 33/303 and B&W DM1's set high above. Sounded bloody brilliant I remember. By the late 70's, the TD150 had been downgraded into a TD160/M75-6S groove mangler, the Quad hung on with bass and treble turned well up and the DM1's had gone, replaced with KEF Concords on the floor behind the record shelves. OK with screaming punk I suppose. I can't remember the gear on the 'classical music' floor.

Other stores I visited had Tannoys (pre Mercury? with 8" bass-mid cones and peaky compression tweeters) driven by cheap big looking black Jap amps and bottom end vinyl and digital players. A record store in Northampton had a foul sounding boom-box Bose Acoustimas system.

I remember hearing a Bose Acoustimas System at a games store in Harrow. The sound was dire! The subwoofer just couldn't stop farting out it's port, lol.

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I call them Acoustimess.

The powered ones were borderline acceptable, but of course everyone turned the boom box (hardly a 'sub really') up too high with the farting boom Shane referred to. The passive ones were really horrible.

These days, a computer workstation system would be better and a heck of a lot cheaper I reckon.

early 70's, a small to tiny record shop in Aylesbury had a B&O system - Don't laugh, this was when B&O was a proper brand before the over-styled madness kicked in. Beogram 1500 amp and deck-in-one (the manual one) and some 1200 speakers I think they were. I thought they sounded very good and coped well with King Crimson at moderate levels.

We used to have a record store near used called 'Andys'. I think they were dotted around the country. Anyway they used to have Gale speakers mounted on the wall. I think they were the '302'.. Virgin Superstore in Sheffield city centre used to have a bank of very expensive QUAD '520' Pro power amps feeding all floors. 

I though they were a good enough shop. Used to get a lot of my CDs from there..  2nd Hard vinyl shop up Sheffield i used to go every saturday but no longer there. I remember Naim 'Nait'/Rega 3/Marantz 'CD63'. Cant remember what speakerz.