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Post by Bigman80 on May 3, 2018 20:08:14 GMT
I am not sure exactly where my love of hifi started. No relative was a hifi nut although my older brother did have separates whe we were growing up. I had my own separates by about age 12. Getting together with my wife age 21 was really the escalation point. We soon moved to York and the Sound Organisation was a real draw. I was aregular fixture stood outside their window and also that of Vickers Hifi. My flat in York was in a large Georgain building with great acoustics and this fuelled my love of hofi. The mags of 1986-1992 were also a high influence too. I bought every issue of Hifi Answers, Audiophile, NHS, and Hifi Review. I went to far flung places to hear the kit you couldn't get locally. I also,attended shows and started buying used kit from the magazine classifieds. I was hooked!
What about you?
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Post by antonio on May 5, 2018 5:29:41 GMT
I purchased my LP12 at the Sound Org. York, after being brainwashed by the HiFi Review. Wish I'd gone into Vickers instead.  |
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Post by Bigman80 on May 5, 2018 8:06:42 GMT
Vickers were always kind of derided as the shop that had to "make do with the leftovers" that the Sound Org didn't want to stock. Lots of stuff they sold was really good although I only discovered that many years later by buying used. I'm glad they are still going.
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Post by dsjr on May 5, 2018 22:28:54 GMT
I've had this argument before. AT THE TIME, a well set up LP12 helped the listener get more music out of his LP's than other decks, especially when we didn't really know how to use solid-plinth decks properly (you can thank Rega for a lot of that in the UK I feel). Things have changed hugely in the last 40 years and much of what went wrong in the 80's UK audio scene has been corrected now thankfully I think, the best 70's decks we maligned now coming back into focus with modern cartridges/phono stages and properly considered siting arrangements.
TODAY, here's far too much Banned around the effin' fruitbox now and it's so expensive anyway these days. Old wrecks sell for a small fortune on eBay, so let the effers buy into it if they want to and let them wallow in a mid-fi vinyl reproduction. I can say that now, as I believe a brand new Rega Planar 3 with suitable cartridge will easily out-perform a mid 80's LP12 irrespective of the arm fitted to it!
What got me into HiFi was my parent's Decca 'Auto Deccalian 88' record player fitted with an interesting Collaro Conquest changer (look one up on YouTube to see how it handled a stack of LP's of different sizes). I spent hours listening to records on this thing right from toddlerhood, so for me, the interest has always been there! |
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Post by Bigman80 on May 5, 2018 22:40:51 GMT
I really do like either solid plinth or split plinth decks. They seem to have a different timing to suspended decks. I'm not sure that's the right word and even less sure shy it's the case, but they Just seem to start and stop in a different way. maybe it's my expectation kicking in. I really don't know tbh.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 23:28:54 GMT
Got the Hi-Fi bug from my Dad. He was seriously into the game since mid 80's up until around 2010.
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Post by Bigman80 on May 6, 2018 11:48:19 GMT
Did your dad just tire of it, or was it something like the evolution into streaming?
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