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Shitty behaviour, but you have to give them kudos for backing out of it and saying sorry.

Are they at least in good nick? I'd be afraid I'd get them home and they'd be as unstable as meself

This is always the worry buying anything vintage....

On holidays recently and drove over to Marbella today to have a look around. I called into technogold - very nice equipment on display. Massive sansui 22000 and some other choice vintage stuff. Hard to see the size of those in these pics but they are absolutely huge. He has a small stock of records ...

Just shows the amount of industrial equipment needed to get a plant up and running.

Well, holiday season is nearly here, and I expect many will visit various parts of the EU over the next while. I thought it would be interesting to post a few locations worth visiting in some EU locations (and maybe further afield?) I have two: Chicago: dusty groove records and reckless records - go...

There's a few hardy annuals!

Myself, Mick, Tony, Pearse.

Are you heading too?

The item I didn't mention was their cartridges. I have 2 of these, one of the MMC20 series and one MC6000 with the adapter to regular mounting. They are high output MC - with either an aluminium or sapphire cantilever depending on which of the series it is. Tip is called Pramanik on mine, which esse...

I'm curious - has anyone here used much B&O gear? New or vintage, what was your impressions etc? Over the past while I've received two pieces of B&O gear, a turntable and amp. The amp was basically working fine, but needed a bit of TLC. The turntable I have yet to sort out, but I sourced the...

Lencos and thorens decks often had 78rpm,,,, but they are no longer cheap!

I take it the transformers are potted? What a pity they can't be repaired....