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Eternal upgrades that plight us & perfection quest
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Robert, glad to hear you're well partnered with your 701s... Expensive wives are not always the most rewarding

I resisted even auditioning the 800s until last summer. Then after 4 auditions, 1 of which was with 701s, I couldnt deny my ears the source of their pleasure... the difference is I often close my eyes and believe myself there in the room with the musicians. That never happened before really.

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Unfortunately (like most of us I guess) it is for financial reasons that I try to keep my recurring 'upgraditis' at bay by regular doses of just sitting down, listening to and enjoying what I've already got. 

I'm hoping one day there will be a few more GSP boxes sat on my hi-fi rack (before Graham finally hangs up his test leads...) so turntable aside my entire hi-fi will be hand built within a 30 mile or so radius of where I live, including the rack itself.

But then with all the silver on show I'll be wishing I'd bought a matching 1200 instead of a 1210. 

Oh, and although I'm not exactly sure what I'd do with it, I can't help looking at nice silver reel-to-reels on Ebay, surely the coolest things ever - or at least on a level with a turntable???

Time to go and listen to some more music I think.
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An SL1210 with some more silver:
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Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC.
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I have thought about blue LEDs as well...

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Indeed - £5 well spent.
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Mmm... I noticed in another photo Jon that you've got the Achromat, same here. I also notice a nice tonearm... I got the tonearm damper a while back for the standard arm which I keep using as a reason not to think about changing the arm... Law of diminishing returns and an impending house move forces me to think I'll stick to the LED mod (purely for aesthetics obviously...) once I get the time to open up the TT.
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Originally posted by JamesD JamesD wrote:

Unfortunately (like most of us I guess)

Oh, and although I'm not exactly sure what I'd do with it, I can't help looking at nice silver reel-to-reels on Ebay, surely the coolest things ever - or at least on a level with a turntable???

Yes James, I would have a reel to reel just to look at, obviously it would be sat next to a Nakamichi Dragon Big smile





Edited by mitch65 - 14 Mar 2013 at 6:08am
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