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outrun

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Linn from top to bottom. Apart from a Michell deck (but still with a Linn arm). And Sonos (obviously).

It must be maybe a decade ago now, but I once drove to John Michells engineering unit in North London to meet him and discuss a turntable. What a nice chap. I keep meaning to buy one of the limited edition black Gyro decks they made when he died, but somehow keep never getting around to it.

Linn is about a mile from my house, went to school with the founder’s kids. Amazing factory. It all came about when he sold the patent for the belt drive turntable to Technics, many moons ago.
 

Zep

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Linn is about a mile from my house, went to school with the founder’s kids. Amazing factory. It all came about when he sold the patent for the belt drive turntable to Technics, many moons ago.

Well, do thank him from me. That’s what I now have in place of my old deck. A 1210 with a good arm and cartridge is hard to beat.
 

MarkMas

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And I have a direct drive linear tracking Technics SL7 bought when I was 15 or 16. Still going strong!
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I have a bit of balsa wood with a drawing pin in it, that I made when I was 15 or 16. Still sounds just as good as it did back then.
 

Wack61

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Magnat are quite well respected from memory. Not a great sonic environment though!

C
Got it all set up now

Went through my vintage amp collection

Onkyo, worked for a month then turning the volume knob ,nothing, nothing, nothing , 100% , ********

Lovely old 70s rotel , looks great , powers up , does **** all

NAD 3020 , winner , works fine now I've been using it for a few hours

The conservatory has a roof that's at least 8" thick , , not glass , I put the floor down , concrete , wooden joists, gaps insulated with kingspan then chipboard and 10mm laminate , plus all the windows have blinds that seem to improve the acoustics

Sounds good to my ears anyway
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I also found out I have a LOT more CDs than I thought
Bought 2 CD racks from IKEA that hold around 180cds each
Both full with at least another 200 in a sideboard
 

CatmanV2

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The conservatory has a roof that's at least 8" thick , , not glass , I put the floor down , concrete , wooden joists, gaps insulated with kingspan then chipboard and 10mm laminate , plus all the windows have blinds that seem to improve the acoustics

Yes, that would help! I'd hardly describe that as a conservatory!

I'd have thought the NAD would be outclassed by the Magnats but dredging the depths of my memory. Heard plenty of NAD gear, no Magnats so I'm guessing.

As long as you're happy (and it's not like you've had no experience of late.....)

C
 

Wack61

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I'm not up on moden terminology for bits built on the back of houses , orangerie ?

I know I was impressed with the roof when it came , I've seen some really **** conversions , this was done by a friend in the trade , think it was 7k , he said the big names charge 12-15k for the same thing.
 

Oneball

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I think an orangerie has brick base to walls, then glass roof, but also know nothing :D

C

Unless it’s actually designed to grow oranges it’s a conservatory, orangerie is usually just pretentious twaddle.

We’ve got some radishes in the conservatory. I’m going to start referring to it as the radisherie, will obviously need to put a large hammer in there too.
 

Ewan

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An orangerie has low brick walls and a ceiling that is solid around the edges but then with a large raised central sky light. A conservatory, on the other hand, has an all-glass roof, and commonly all-glass walls. Similar, but different. In the same way that our potager is different to our vegetable patch.
 

Ewan

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A green house (or glass house) is typically an all-glass, stand-alone structure in a garden. Whereas a conservatory is typically attached to another building, thereby having at least one side not made from glass.
But of course, such definitions are only loose guides.
As for your cocainerie, I imagine this has no windows at all!
 

Wattie

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But of course, such definitions are only loose guides.
As for your cocainerie, I imagine this has no windows at all!
None. Very black on the outside.
Very white on the inside.
Bit like Whitney Houston’s nose, apparently.
 

Wack61

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Yes, that would help! I'd hardly describe that as a conservatory!

I'd have thought the NAD would be outclassed by the Magnats but dredging the depths of my memory. Heard plenty of NAD gear, no Magnats so I'm guessing.

As long as you're happy (and it's not like you've had no experience of late.....)

C

Got the Rotel working , the pre-main amp pins were missing , sounds great but if you touch the volume knob the crackling has people a mile away thinking a plane is crashing so I've ordered a can of servisol switch cleaner
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zagatoes30

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Arrived and installed, love the theatre of getting an album out of its sleeve and then putting it on the platter, aligning the tone arm and then the joy of the sound - absolutely love it

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