Lovely, nice to se the correct counter weight for the SPU too
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Love the look of that SP10. Lovely setup
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Sonus Faber Cremona Auditor speakers
The Snell J’s are just too boomy up against the wall and the Omegas have nothing in the bass.
Really impressed with how good these sound for such a small speaker. Plus the build quality and looks are outstanding
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There was talk of clubbing together and buying your Snell’s when you got bored( or found a reason to rid them ) and keeping them just for lopwel
They sounded great in that room
Sounds like it’s come quicker than we thought!
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Finally got round to plumbing in the Acoustic Signature MCX-1.
It’s years since I last had a MC cart so it will take a while to get used to it but first impressions are very good. I’m also waiting for another shiny new thing to (hopefully) make things even betterer.
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Freshly arrived is an EMT928 turntable.
It’s fitted with an EMT909 arm which is setup for the company’s ‘Tondose’ type carts. They’ve supplied three of these…
…of which this is the middle one with an elliptical stylus. There’s one with a conical which I’m probably going to ignore and a super dooper one I’ll try later.
It’s an odd but quite engaging bit of kit. It had the density of a neutron star and is battery powered for added fuckery. It’s belt driven which is a bit of a puzzler as I thought they were big into direct drive. It’s enjoyable to listen to though and I rather like it.
Not sure of the exact cost; think it’s about £14-15k as it sits.
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Their later, serious broadcast models 938,948 & 950 were all DD but I imagine would be horrendously expensive to make (even simplified for domestic use) nowadays. The earlier 927 & 930 were idler drive & immensely engineered. Won’t this, to some extent, have been outsourced to Thorens?
Not sure- I will be having a conversation with their head honcho next week so I’ll see what I can find out.
Surprised it’s not even more
Finally arrived yesterday after going walkabout for a week so first listen of it today.
I can now switch from the MC side to the mono side without unplugging everything which is what I was looking for because I’m a lazy bastard.
Not ideal placement but it can’t be helped for now however first impressions are very very good and along with the MCX-1 cartridge the vinyl side of things is sounding a lot sweeter than it has for a good while.
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Beautifully expressed…
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A Cambridge system amp/cd/dab/dac and tannoys turned up on fb the other day cheap locally
Fancied trying the dac as I remember it from 20 or so years ago,is a John westlake /pink triangle design.
Will flip the other bits and keep the dac and dab
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I didn’t write the DAB300 manual but as a fresh faced 22 year old, it was my first attempt at translating ‘engineer’ to English.
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It’s all been rather quiet on the new acquisitions front chez moi recently, so I’ve been doing some searching for a cheapish amp to drive my Spendor S8Es.
I’ve taken a punt on one of these:
Musical Fidelity X-T100 integrated amp. The one I bought comes with (I think - the photos were quite poor) the first iteration of the power supply (not the later upgraded Triple-X version) and possibly comes minus the remote control.
I’d never heard of this amp, but there’s a decent review in Stereophile. 50wpc solid state power amp section (rising to 85wpc if you add the upgraded PSU), while the preamp circuit has a single ECC 88 tube per channel. At the very least, there’s a decent chance it won’t catch fire (top of my list of valve amp requirements these days, for reasons some of you may remember).
Definitely a speculative buy (should arrive in a few days), but for £150 with a 12 month warranty, worth the risk I hope.
Apparently, the onboard MM phono stage is respectable, too, and there’s a matching CDP (X-Ray?) that looks cute.
I wonder if this will cure me of the ongoing lust I have felt for the MF A1000 since I saw and heard one thirty-odd years ago. That was one shiny bit of bling.
Will keep you posted.
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Well, they both have MF in the model number 
I had the original MF A1000. A nice enough amp but the Sugden A21a would / did shred it.
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Interesting. The only Sugden I’ve had is the Masterclass phono stage, which is bloody brilliant (and not likely to be replaced any time soon).
I had aSugden A48 whose power switch thump killed a tweeter. Have just installed these into my loft/computer setup. Bought at a chazzer.
The speakers will make you laugh.
Made these years ago for a kitchen system. Would like something contemporaneous (mid 80s) and small. Maybe original Wharfedale Diamond?
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