Audiophile jewelry - most beautiful Cd players, turntables and other gear

[welsh]

Such a big box with a big knob but 2 little meters.
Not only that but What Hi-Fi says it, Say it ain't so Joe. LOL

• Lacks rhythmic precision and dynamic punch
• Sound staging could be more expansive

Are you suggesting that we should take What Hifi at their (entirely subjective) word? Or that ‘rhythmic precision’ and ‘sound staging’ are actual qualities of amplifiers? I trust your post is ironic.

 

[welsh]

Obviously from Italy.

Just four Cornettos, give them to me… delicious hifi, from Italy…

 

[escksu]

MBL 6010D preamplifier, classic stuff too, here gold is less controversial.
BTW I wanted to buy it's clone at audiophonics (I know it sounds great). They carry also Topping Pre90. I asked them which one is better sounding and they pointed Topping Pre90 strongly so, quite surprised by this recommendation, I took Pre90 from my local shop for listening test. Bingo! It stayed so now I am happy owner of Topping Pre90. Probably it would be strong competitor to the original 6010D shown below, but who knows, unless Amirm measure this classic beauty as well...


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Whooo MBL..... Once of the best..... and also extremely expensive... But it is awesome.

 

[Grumpish]

Transcriptors turntable - I lusted after one of these when I was younger, and the modern version, the Gyrodec, is still a tasty bit of eye candy...

 

[Ear-Wax]

80's Analog Eargasm by Technics

 

[Doodski]

Transcriptors turntable - I lusted after one of these when I was younger, and the modern version, the Gyrodec, is still a tasty bit of eye candy...

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You're not missing much by not having this snazzy turntable. I owned one and it was a pain in the butt to setup so I bought a Technics direct drive quartz lock turntable and just displayed the snazzy looking one as eye candy.

 

[mononoaware]

80's Analog Eargasm by Technics
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Thanks for this.
It opened up a can of vintage Technics speakers I had almost forgotten about.

 

[mononoaware]

The rear-view of JBL K2 S5500.
Exposed rear of compression driver, with interesting design of the terminal bridges.

 

[pma]

Design only, has not been realized.

 

[ctbarker32]

Gold Note of Florence Italy, Leonardo da Vinci's hometown, has some attractive designs.

 

[mononoaware]

Audiosector Patek Amp SE.

I like this kind of bare design, interesting and without being too gaudy.

 

[Outside75]

is it beautiful? im not sure. It is certainly interesting.

 

[Frank Dernie]

is it beautiful? im not sure. It is certainly interesting.

I used to use one of those Studer CD players, traded it in around 1997 for what I am using now.

 

[Sal1950]

is it beautiful? im not sure. It is certainly interesting.

I'd love to give it a listen, but
"the best quality sound you'll ever hear" ?
I highly doubt it. The shear size of the speaker is sure to click your bias into high gear making
a honest sighted evaluation next to impossible.
None the less, some very kool toys.

 

[Sal1950]

The original Oracle turntable. I lusted after one of these soooooo badly back in the day.
They were always out of my budget at the time and shortly later the CD came and I lost all interest in vinyl.
AFAIK they started the open design style still popular today but now taken to insane lengths.
The Rube Goldberg wacky (IMO) anti-skating bit on the tonearm would have to go.
I want mine with a air-bearing straight line tracking arm that doesn't need all that goofy stuff.

 

[Doodski]

The original Oracle turntable. I lusted after one of these soooooo badly back in the day.
They were always out of my budget at the time and shortly later the CD came and I lost all interest in vinyl.
AFAIK they started the open design style still popular today but now taken to insane lengths.
The Rube Goldbery wacky (IMO) anti-skating bit on the tonearm would have to go.
I want mine with a air-bearing straight line tracking arm that doesn't need all that goofy stuff.

A Technics SL-Q5 would suffice well.

 

[egellings]

In my equipment setup, any of those fancy pieces would look like a petunia in an onion patch.

 

[Outside75]

I'd love to give it a listen, but
"the best quality sound you'll ever hear" ?
I highly doubt it. The shear size of the speaker is sure to click your bias into high gear making
a honest sighted evaluation next to impossible.
None the less, some very kool toys.

its a pc hardware tech channel so his impressions are dry and "pure" which I quite like. Im also fascinated by the CEOs equipment choices there. I would assume that he can afford any toy he likes and yet he settled on this particular combination. Not that Italian made custom horns are cheap... Anyway - audiophile CEO not being a cable believer is a bonus too

 

[Sal1950]

A Technics SL-Q5 would suffice well.

Not my cup of tea, direct drive and all that.
My last table that I used for 20 some years was a Harman Kardon ST-8 with the Rabco design straight line arm.
The earlier ST7 and such had issues and were quite buggy.
They got it right with the ST8 and it had the bits I desired. (SLT arm, belt drive, cue lever, auto end of record pickup, etc)
Here's the ebay pictures I sold it with, probably should have just kept it, but all it did for the last 10 years or more was to sit there and collect dust. Along with all the unused LP's taking up space.

Look at all the extra goodies guys. Dynavector Ruby cantilever mc cartridge, Supex 900 Super mc, Stanton 881S mm, Marcof battery powered moving coil stepup amp, more. Guy I sold it all to in 2009 got a hell of a deal in todays vinyl dollars.

 

[Doodski]

Not my cup of tea, direct drive and all that.
My last table that I used for 20 some years was a Harman Kardon ST-8 with the Rabco design straight line arm.
The earlier ST7 and such had issues and were quite buggy.
They got it right with the ST8 and it had the bits I desired. (SLT arm, belt drive, cue lever, auto end of record pickup, etc)
Here's the ebay pictures I sold it with, probably should have just kept it, but all it did for the last 10 years or more was to sit there and collect dust. Along with all the unused LP's taking up space.

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Look at all the extra goodies guys. Dynavector Ruby cantilever mc cartridge, Supex 900 Super mc, Stanton 881S mm, Marcof battery powered moving coil stepup amp, more. Guy I sold it all to in 2009 got a hell of a deal in todays vinyl dollars.
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Very cool. The tonearm can be changed out. and... It's not a P-mount.