Vintage HiFi. Sounds great, looks cool, costs peanuts
A lovely chunky pair of Mission speaker stands from the charity shop couldn’t be ignored.
In great condition, but missing their spikes. That’s easily fixed though. Isn’t it ? Continue reading “Spikes for Mission Stance speaker stands”
It is amazing what you spot in a skip sometimes. Have beats fallen from grace so much since Apple bought them that people are just throwing them out?
I retrieved these two from a soggy skip while out for a run. I certainly wouldn’t have entertained the brand previously. I’m probably twice the age of the target market. Since they cost me nothing, It’s worth seeing if these are fixable and if they are any good. Continue reading “My heart nearly missed a couple of Beats”
Within a week I acquired these two pairs of headphones for very different outlays.
Both are rather nice, but quite different. Continue reading “Headphones. Open or Closed back.”
My main system is quite a stable affair. The Amp, turntable and speakers have not changed in over a decade. The same cannot be said of the workshop system.
This system constantly has components swapped in and out as I test and work on them. This time though, it was quite a big change. Continue reading “Swapping gear in the workshop system”
My Main HiFi System is mainly concerned with playing vinyl, but it can also do that modern streaming thing and lots of other formats.
The equipment to do this was produced over a range of five decades. So let’s take a trip back in time from the newest component to the oldest. Continue reading “Half a century in one HiFi.”
I recently saw this in a charity shop and it brought a tear to my eye. Partly because of the nostalgia, but mainly because of how awful I remember it being.
One of these first entered our house as my big sisters main Christmas present in the mid 1970’s. Continue reading “My First record player. Fidelity Music Master”
My Mission Cyrus One amplifier is great, but it doesn’t have a headphone socket. I now use an external headphone amplifier, driven from the tape out RCA sockets. Before I made that investment I got great results from this modified speaker switch box.
Carnforth railway station, and it’s clock in particular, are famous from the film “Brief encounter “. Correctly located in the corners of a large room in the visitors centre were a pair of these beauties.
Continue reading “Brief encounter with Voigt domestic corner horn speakers”
These two pairs of speakers were bought in 2015 for just £10