Does anyone here, use a NAD amplifier?

ha, yeah, my first propper hifi purchase was a 3020.  Cost me £109 back in 1980.  Nice warm sound if i recall.   One of the few early consumer amps which still command a decent price.

I had a NAD receiver in the 80's.  I have heard a few of their amps for todays stuff.  They still make a good produce especially in the price range! 

Yep, classic. With the LED`s above the volume control. I`ve had numerous nad`s, the best, probably, being te 3155. Only downside to the 3020, is the thump, on switch on. Remember the mission 700`s? Partnered with a 320, beautiful.

These, were an absoloute classic.

Agree!!!!  Some great stuff!!   

    yamaha ns-2000 are nice .

Never been a fan of big speakers chris. I`ve had a few pairs, but, you need a big room, to get the full effect. I used to have a pair of monitor audio R352`s. These things, could shake the floorboards.

small ones: rogers, harbeth, spendor

yeah i had a pair of the same monitors or were they a 5 something ?   i cant remember now beuties all the same .   some technics sb"s were good to the older ones love the look .

Rogers LS3-5A. Classic. I used to be an absolute hi-fi nut, in the 80`s. Used to love messing with hi-fi, trying old tube amps.

I remember. I wouldn`t accept, that cd`s were taking over from vinyl. Bought a marantz cd-74, in 83. That thing, sounded so sterile. I stuck with vinyl, till finally giving in, around 88/89.

yep,

that's the bbc rogers ls3/5.

always wanted to hear that one

16 0hm speakers, need a good amp

liftan, vinyl is still king. only it's the right setup.

the bbc emt 950...

the 950 seems to be the best emt ever made. only the arm, cartridge and phone amp are less= to be replaced. but the TT is emt's best. it isnt the 927 or 30, according to a specialist.

thank god, i've bought a bbc 950... )

now,  i need the perfect phono-amp etc...

I have found for my taste tube preamp and solid state amp works for me.   I am running legacy focus speakers   Acoustic research SP16 tube pre and a sunfire signature amp.   Believe it or not, my AR 16 is faster and better highs then my McIntosh preamp!   

I had a set of tyler acoustic reference monitor II before. They sounded good but, couldnt hit like the legacy does.  Your right lit, you do need room for them!!!  In my smaller room, i had a set of JM Labs 815 and they sounded fantastic in there but, when i went to a bigger room, they just couldnt hang.   

Rogers has made some amazing speakers over the years!!

For smaller speakers, the Joseph audio pulsar was shockingly good but OMG $$$$$$$$$$$

Beautiful speakers. Just thinking, about the marantz cd-74. I only had it for about a year, then sold it to someone i worked with. I saw him last year, and, i was asking him, what he did with the 74, he said, he was still using it, and, it sounded brilliant.

also for CD, try a tube cd player like the Jolida cd100   and put some Mullard or EI tubes in it.  

Have you seen the price, those EMT`s go for?

You`re right ernie. You really need a tube amp, for cd playback.

cd

it seems, you need an end 1990's denon and a today's dac

forget the early cdp's.. they are less detailled.

ok, i have a studer d730 and stick with that one, but there is alot of improvement in the DAC.

cdp's are still better than streaming audio.

emt's these days are sky high

i paid 2.5k for an bbc 950

i do think 250 euro for a technics 1200 is a better option

Oh, you`re talking real audiophile stuff here, studer. I never ventured into it, as, my interest in hi-fi, waned in the 90`s.

Do you know. I am, probably, one of the few, that does`t rate the 1200. Heard a technics sp-10, years ago, that was the biz.

the jolda tube cd player is a great sounding unit.  I recently sold mine but, i miss it.  I  got a SACD player.      It sounds darn good but, it doesnt have tubes LOL.  at least my preamp does though!  

I am still running a 1200!  I had other turntables from Project and rega lower line rega, the technics still was better with a denon Moving Coil cart.  dl160  With a clean record it still sounds better than cd any day of the week. 

my thinking is this:

only one picking for the next 30 years.

you pay more, but you enjoy it for many years.

i must admit, studer's these days are too expensive.

i bought my studer 8 years ago.

so, go for denon xlr and a new dac = better sound than my studer

the sp-10 is better than a 1200

but, you pay too much

these days i would go for a 948-950 instead of a sp10

so, the 1200/1210 is the best bang for the buck

i think origin live has the perfect arm/cartridge for a 1200/1210

origin is a english audio company

Could be true. I used to know a kid, called robert fenn. He was loaded, and, he used to buy all the esoteric stuff. He`d say, oh, i`ve just bought a blah blah blah. I`d never heard of half of it.

I`ve past a couple of sp-10`s up. I could kick myself now, but, at the time, they weren`t commanding those sort of prices.

should have bought a sp10 mk2 for 400 euro..7 years ago

but in the end, i would go for an EMT 950

it's the ultimate DD, better than a denon dp100

otherwise a 1200/1210

Exactly. The problem, i have alway`s had with the 1200, is, i `ve alway`s considered it a dj`s deck. Don`t ask me, what difference it makes, i couldn`t tell you.

What`s that toshiba DD deck? You very rarely, see them for sale.

it's not only a dj deck. but with the right arm,cartridge=origin live. it's also a good TT for home use. i do think, it's the best bang for the buck.

you've also got the idler lenco 75 drive, but it needs mod's which are $$$$

too me, the technics 1200/10 are the TT's.

toshiba??? it's denon dp-100

pioneer exclusive p3 are also good ones, but only in japan and $$$$

This is the toshiba i was talking about. All the big manufacturers, had a dabble at the high-end DD turntable market. Some were good, some weren`t. The pioneer PL-630, was good. The best turntable set up, by far, i heard at a hi-fi show, in 1995. In one room graham tricker,a well known tube amp restorer, had set up, a garrard 301 deck, with SME arm, radford STA-15 tube amp, a pair of quad electrostatics. He put on a classical disc. There were around 30 people sat in the room. We all sat there, mouths open. It was, as if we were in the royal albert hall. By comparison, in another room, they had set up a real high end system. One of those £50,000 japanese tube amps, top cd, and speakers. Well, you have never heard such rubbish in your life. We were all shocked. The demonstrator, was dashing round, adjusting things, but, it made no difference. Downstairs, they had a vintage audio jumble. I got, a totally mint rogers cadet 3 pre/power amps, for £120. Still have it.

          http://www.ebay.com/itm/TOSHIB...IPPING-/380463649714

that toshiba 510 looks a nice bit of kit ,  got to be a rare bird to .

It is chris. I have only ever seen one in the UK. One thing, that shocked me, is how the price of some things has shot up. I wanted a turntable, as a secondary system. I alway`s like dual decks, so, i got a mint 731Q, from germany. It was under 100 euros. The price of these things, is insane. You can`t beat german engineering "vorsprung durch technik", as del would say.

Yes. I do. I have a NAD T785 receiver. it is their top of the line receiver. Sounds absolutely awesome. Went with this instead of their stand alone amps because I needed HDMI switching and watch more movies than listen to music on this system. 

Sounds absolutely awesome. And upgradeable. Speakers are all Paradigm signatures. 

Heres the link to it 

http://nadelectronics.com/prod...round-Sound-Receiver

  yeah he would        i am on a sondek lp12 at the minute .

Flippin eck lad, that`s a battleship, that receiver.

What, standing on it . Nice deck. I was going to get one, years ago, but again, couldn`t afford one. Had to get an axxis instead. It`s still in the shed, boxed up. When i came out of hospital. I came home, put a record on, all i got, was a loud hum.

  i get fascinated with hi fi its such a vast subject and the look of older systems has me drooling .    i bought a akai 70"s set up for less than £100 for the lot but sadly the amp is down a channel i will get it sorted out when docs is less busy

i love all the old skool seperates, never really been able to afford top of the line gear but i did have some nice pioneer seperates i got off a bootsale quiet cheap some years back.

from memory they sounded great, now i have a crap sharp thing with a built in turntable and a seperate cd player, i can't have anything too thumpy anyway, my neighbours are getting on in years

I bet, it look`s like the bridge of the starship enterprise, when it`s switched on .

is that one to me or Del Rich?

you would be surprised arron car boots can hide some gems some times in hi fi as well as the crap .

yeah iv'e passed a lot of nice looking hi fi gear on the bootsales at times Chris.

on the subject...there's a second hand shop down the road from me and he's had some akai seperates in the shop for months that have never sold.

out of curiosity i asked how much and he said £15

their really cool late 70s early 80s ones with the huge needle meters on.

i look at them evrytime i walk past, god knows why i have'nt snatched em yet

also charity shops can hide gems to .

ye but iv'e never had luck with boxes in all the years iv'e been checkin out the charity shops

I have been that busy, looking for boxes at boot fairs. I have overlooked some choice hi-fi.

ye same here Rich, i only ever have eyes for boxes at bootsales and have probably missed out on a lot of other good gear due to that fact.