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Thought you would all like to see Nick's system he had in use at the weekend just gone's Whittlebury show.

I have to say it was the best hotel room sound I have ever heard. The room was treated and it sounded gob smackingly good.

Hope others who went in agree!

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Ooooh !
Looks nice. No obvious valves in the power amp, but there's big PassLabs thing down there from what i can see.
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What would be a ball park cost for that little collection ? :)
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Pass Labs monos 7k each, turntable 16k with arm, speakers 15k, phono stage 9840. Dunno what the MF pre and sut's go for.

Took a lot of setting up and fiddling to get it sounding good, the room treatment made a huge ge difference.

Difficult room, not only square but a cube. Thought it was sounding great once sorted though.
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Being a bit of a noob at all this, I just looked at the details of the exhibition (https://www.chestergroup.org/nationalaudioshow/2015) - really amazing - wish that I'd known about it - I could have done Saturday (Sunday was at the rugby).

Nick's setup looks just astonishing... very envious...
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There's probably not many demo rooms that played Syd Lawrance, Gong, Micheal Hedges, Frankie Goes to Hollyhead (sic), Hawkwind and Weather Report within the space of an hour I bet.
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And Bjork. :-)
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Oooh, I didn't remember her, maybe I was pulling your ears or kicking the back of your chair at the time and not concentrating! :)
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jack wrote:Nick's setup looks just astonishing... very envious...
Most of it was borrowed and has gone back now.
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What're the speakers? - didn't see any pictures.

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Who is this Nick you all refer to? Is it the Nick with mercury rectifiers on breadboards :lol:

Very impressive stuff. Which of the kit is Nick's and which was borrowed?
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simon wrote:Who is this Nick you all refer to? Is it the Nick with mercury rectifiers on breadboards :lol:

Very impressive stuff. Which of the kit is Nick's and which was borrowed?
All borrowed except for the phono stage.
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I have pics of the full system I will add them shortly.

The system did sound good considering the individual items had not been connected together in the same system before.

The Reed turntable was particularly good I thought.
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