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27th Oct 2019, 10:02 pm | #1 |
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Vintage hi-fi at the 2019 Hi-Fi News Show in Ascot
Giving the modern stuff a run for its money at this year's UK Hi-Fi Show Live, the show that Hi-Fi News magazine runs, a nice set of old Japanese gear:
Sony TC-164SD, Nakamichi 550 and JVC KD-2 cassette decks Sony PS-FL7 Quartz DD / linear tracking turntable Hitachi FT-8000 FM tuner Hitachi HA-7700 MOSFET integrated amplifier Technics SB-7000 phase linear loudspeakers It looked good, sounded great and gave no trouble all weekend, despite being given a good pounding! |
28th Oct 2019, 3:33 am | #2 |
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Re: Vintage hi-fi at the 2019 Hi-Fi News Show in Ascot
My kind of system! You can keep the piano black finished gold plated trimmed modern wonders for those who want to brag about how much their phono cables cost.
Regards, Paul
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28th Oct 2019, 7:42 am | #3 | |
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Re: Vintage hi-fi at the 2019 Hi-Fi News Show in Ascot
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AND your list of the equipment didn't include the cables. One of the great advances in home audio is the recognition of the cables being more important than the stuff in the boxes. Equipment dating back to when brochures and reviews contained numbers! How unsophisticated! David
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28th Oct 2019, 8:59 am | #4 |
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Re: Vintage hi-fi at the 2019 Hi-Fi News Show in Ascot
The only part of that system that will have improved significantly since 1975 is loudspeakers. There has been a real revolution in understanding of what makes a speaker a truly great performer. Flat on-axis response is only part of the equation.
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28th Oct 2019, 11:11 am | #5 | |
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The SB-7000s also have a 13.5" bass unit which moves a lot of air with great ease. You have to spend silly money to get big units like these these days; it really does add to the realism when reproducing instruments that also move a lot of air. Lovely tweeter too... More details here: http://www.thevintageknob.org/technics-SB-7000.html |
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