AlienALX
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Yeah man, I noticed the "8-10 weeks" part when you change the colour.
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Yeah man, I noticed the "8-10 weeks" part when you change the colour.
SuB
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The HiFi fund finally got finished, and I've FINALLY (after 10 months of saving) been and ordered this lot 
(curious as to if anyone would be interested in a review or if it's too-audio for you chaps)
Pro-Ject Carbon DC in Black with Ortofon Red Cartridge
Pioneer SX-N30 Network Stereo Receiver also in Black
Elac Debut B6 Bookshelf Passive speakers
(curious as to if anyone would be interested in a review or if it's too-audio for you chaps)
Pro-Ject Carbon DC in Black with Ortofon Red Cartridge
Pioneer SX-N30 Network Stereo Receiver also in Black
Elac Debut B6 Bookshelf Passive speakers
AlienALX
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Nice. I toyed with the idea of getting a record deck as we (my wife and I) have quite a few records. Thing is, the one I want would cost thousands so I've decided against it. Thankfully you can get most music as FLAC/Vinyl, so any album I want as vinyl I just download
Would love to see a review though. Oh, and Ortofon FTW. I always used those. Concordes, IIRC, and looked a little bit like this.
Would love to see a review though. Oh, and Ortofon FTW. I always used those. Concordes, IIRC, and looked a little bit like this.
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SuB
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Nice. I toyed with the idea of getting a record deck as we (my wife and I) have quite a few records. Thing is, the one I want would cost thousands so I've decided against it. Thankfully you can get most music as FLAC/Vinyl, so any album I want as vinyl I just download
Would love to see a review though. Oh, and Ortofon FTW. I always used those. Concordes, IIRC, and looked a little bit like this.
It's been on my list for AGES, just finally managed to top up the fund and get the permission to get it
Yeah heard nothing but good things about the Ortofon stuff, I'm considering upgrading it to a blue, but for now this is plenty good enough.
Cheers manVery nice
I had to go sound bar/sub route until I can afford the whole shebang.
Dead pleased!We've had surround stuff since before I moved a while back, but we haven't got around to setting a lot of it up, my KEF's paint reacted to UV weird and went super-sticky so need to use cellulose thinners to get rid of it, which is a pretty fast way to give yourself Cancer so I just haven't sorted them out. Once we've bought the house though, it'l all get setup and sorted
I'm properly looking forward to getting this bad boy setup end of this week and enjoying some records
AlienALX
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I know the feeling brother. Before I left the UK for the USA I had the most incredible set up. I had Crown Macrom 10" mids with tweeters in, a Rogers E40A valve amp worth about four grand and a Cerwin Vega Intense trapezoidal subwoofer. T36, IIRC.
It was quality meets loud. Oh yeah, and a 2kw amp feeding the Stroker 18 that was in there
When I left for the USA I sold it all, and then had no hifi at all between 2000 and 2008. When I arrived back my cousin gave me a set of Missions and an old Sherwood receiver from the 90s but yeah, that was it until I built up our cinema rig using nothing but Scandyna and valve amps about two years back.
I'd forgotten what proper hifi stuff sounded like tbh, making do with cheap headphones and no amps.
Ortofon started out competing with Stanton back in the 90s. Stantons were harder wearing, but inevitably rather bass heavy and a bit woolly. Ortofon were far more accurate and sounded much better, and at the time they were cheaper too.
Me not being a DJ I always used to use Ortofons.
I wouldn't mind a Grado, but as I say - grands man, grands.
It was quality meets loud. Oh yeah, and a 2kw amp feeding the Stroker 18 that was in there
When I left for the USA I sold it all, and then had no hifi at all between 2000 and 2008. When I arrived back my cousin gave me a set of Missions and an old Sherwood receiver from the 90s but yeah, that was it until I built up our cinema rig using nothing but Scandyna and valve amps about two years back.
I'd forgotten what proper hifi stuff sounded like tbh, making do with cheap headphones and no amps.
Ortofon started out competing with Stanton back in the 90s. Stantons were harder wearing, but inevitably rather bass heavy and a bit woolly. Ortofon were far more accurate and sounded much better, and at the time they were cheaper too.
Me not being a DJ I always used to use Ortofons.
I wouldn't mind a Grado, but as I say - grands man, grands.
SuB
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I know the feeling brother. Before I left the UK for the USA I had the most incredible set up. I had Crown Macrom 10" mids with tweeters in, a Rogers E40A valve amp worth about four grand and a Cerwin Vega Intense trapezoidal subwoofer. T36, IIRC.
It was quality meets loud. Oh yeah, and a 2kw amp feeding the Stroker 18 that was in there
When I left for the USA I sold it all, and then had no hifi at all between 2000 and 2008. When I arrived back my cousin gave me a set of Missions and an old Sherwood receiver from the 90s but yeah, that was it until I built up our cinema rig using nothing but Scandyna and valve amps about two years back.
I'd forgotten what proper hifi stuff sounded like tbh, making do with cheap headphones and no amps.
Ortofon started out competing with Stanton back in the 90s. Stantons were harder wearing, but inevitably rather bass heavy and a bit woolly. Ortofon were far more accurate and sounded much better, and at the time they were cheaper too.
Me not being a DJ I always used to use Ortofons.
I wouldn't mind a Grado, but as I say - grands man, grands.
Well at least I know who to ask when it comes to later upgrades
AlienALX
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Well at least I know who to ask when it comes to later upgrades
Fire away mate
Also, talking of turntables. I would like to take something like this -
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-G...825149?hash=item3d21c8fcfd:g:IgIAAOSwhOdXoJEG
And convert/wire it up for stereo. Not sure how I would mount the cartridge but record decks are actually very simple. You have a motor circuit and on those old Garrards there is like a rubber flywheel that presses onto the record plate making it turn. Then there are four or five very fine wires that run through the arm and connect to a RCA plate at one end and the cartridge at the other. I'm 99% certain I could take something like I've linked to and convert it to play modern records
SuB
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Fire away mate
Also, talking of turntables. I would like to take something like this -
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-G...825149?hash=item3d21c8fcfd:g:IgIAAOSwhOdXoJEG
And convert/wire it up for stereo. Not sure how I would mount the cartridge but record decks are actually very simple. You have a motor circuit and on those old Garrards there is like a rubber flywheel that presses onto the record plate making it turn. Then there are four or five very fine wires that run through the arm and connect to a RCA plate at one end and the cartridge at the other. I'm 99% certain I could take something like I've linked to and convert it to play modern records
Go for it dude, I'd love to see something like that
AlienALX
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Yeah me being me it would have to be something daft like that. Just one issue, the drive wheels. They will pretty much be perished and new ones are £85 haha. It's got money pit written all over it
The nice part about Garrards though is that they were manufactured as running decks that you then mounted into the base yourself. So for example, back in the 60s and 70s huge great mahogany cabinets with speakers etc in (and legs, they looked like tables !) you would usually find a Garrard at the heart of it. I used one for many years as a kid totally removed from the base. they actually run and function completely independently.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Just got myself a Samsung 512GB PM961 M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD with read speeds of 3000MB/s and write speeds of up to 1150MB/s.
I was looking round and noticed Scan is £77 cheaper than OCUK for this item, While Scans is on pre-order I aint got a problem waiting 2 weeks until they get stock over paying an extra £77 for the exact same item and getting it the next day.
I asked them on the phone if they will honor pre-orders if prices go up once they get stock and they did confirm this so it's not a problem.
It's being installed in my X99 Sabertooths nicely hidden M.2 NVME compartment, Nice stealthy fast storage and the green PCB won't be seen
I was looking round and noticed Scan is £77 cheaper than OCUK for this item, While Scans is on pre-order I aint got a problem waiting 2 weeks until they get stock over paying an extra £77 for the exact same item and getting it the next day.
I asked them on the phone if they will honor pre-orders if prices go up once they get stock and they did confirm this so it's not a problem.
It's being installed in my X99 Sabertooths nicely hidden M.2 NVME compartment, Nice stealthy fast storage and the green PCB won't be seen
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Dicehunter
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Got ram ? ^_^
realneil
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Just the 64GB for now.
It's 2400MHz. speed.
I also have 32GB of 3200MHz. laying around. I may just use that.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Do you do memory hungry work ?
Dicehunter
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realneil
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No, I just got an outrageous deal on the RAM. It will end up being split into 2-32GB kits. One on one X99 board, One on the i5-6600K, and the faster 32GB of RAM will go onto the board that I pictured.
AlienALX
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After my rear 120mm rad swallowed half a bottle of vinegar earlier I have ordered another one of these.
And another one of these.
I bought one yesterday for £5:03 inc from Kikatek, then realised OCUK had them for £1.99. I bolted it onto the coolant order so the shipping was free and hilariously it will be here before the Kikatek one. Note to self - always exhaust options before pressing order. At least if I want to paint one now I can
I also ordered six of these from WCUK. I don't need six, but adding that new rad into the loop has caused all sorts of issues with what fittings I can use where.
I ordered these two days ago.
And of course this.
And for those who were around when it aired.. In 2000 I went off to the USA so for six years I remained blissfully unaware of the cappuccino years. I read the book in 2007 but missed the TV show.. Was it any good? I downloaded it the other night because it's £90 on DVD now :O
Oh yeah, bargain alert ! I also got this, formerly a £60 mouse.
https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/Func_MS-3_R2_5670_DPI_Gaming_Mouse/
They have the mats too*
https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/Func_Surface_FS10-R2-XL_Gaming_Mouse_Mat/
* NOTE. If you just order the mouse they will send it second class for £3. Making a total of about £13. If you order a mat it goes to DPD and they charge £6. So all in I paid about £19 for the mouse and mat.
And another one of these.
I bought one yesterday for £5:03 inc from Kikatek, then realised OCUK had them for £1.99. I bolted it onto the coolant order so the shipping was free and hilariously it will be here before the Kikatek one. Note to self - always exhaust options before pressing order. At least if I want to paint one now I can
I also ordered six of these from WCUK. I don't need six, but adding that new rad into the loop has caused all sorts of issues with what fittings I can use where.
I ordered these two days ago.
And of course this.
And for those who were around when it aired.. In 2000 I went off to the USA so for six years I remained blissfully unaware of the cappuccino years. I read the book in 2007 but missed the TV show.. Was it any good? I downloaded it the other night because it's £90 on DVD now :O
Oh yeah, bargain alert ! I also got this, formerly a £60 mouse.
https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/Func_MS-3_R2_5670_DPI_Gaming_Mouse/
They have the mats too*
https://www.eclipsecomputers.com/Product/Func_Surface_FS10-R2-XL_Gaming_Mouse_Mat/
* NOTE. If you just order the mouse they will send it second class for £3. Making a total of about £13. If you order a mat it goes to DPD and they charge £6. So all in I paid about £19 for the mouse and mat.
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
Couldn't help it, Needed some more Corsair goodness, Tom I blame your review ^_^
Corsair MM800 RGB mousemat and 4x4GB Corsair LPX 3000MHz so I now have 32GB of memory, don;t really need it but the empty memory slots were bugging me XD
Corsair MM800 RGB mousemat and 4x4GB Corsair LPX 3000MHz so I now have 32GB of memory, don;t really need it but the empty memory slots were bugging me XD
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