Gervais Cote
Predator
I'm always very amazed to see those vintage Naim amps in such good condition after all these years. Really makes me wander if there’s anything else on earth as valuable !
So what would a spherical earth system be? (asking for a friend!)
Hi Richard,
I'm working on my own Valhalla at the moment as, like you, I use a DIY Geddon. I'm planning a combo Geddon and 45 RPM Valhalla. I only have a few singles so i am not prepared to go mad on a newer Lingo.
FWIW I much preferred a Geddon to a Mark 1 Lingo. I understand the Mk4 is a lot better, but it is just too much money.
I've checked the rectifier on mine, the original from around '87, it is the same form factor, part number B500 C1500. I've not looked up the specs, so unsure if the 1000/1500 change is significant.
I also have the missing component values to hand, wattages etc. Let me know if you need them.
By the way, good score! Slightly amused by some of the luke warm responses. I can't imagine there are many on here, who had the money to hand, wouldn't have snapped those up.
Regards,
Graham.
Oracle / FR64 / Koetsu Rosewood / Audio Research SP9 / Krell KSA50 / Infinity RS4b
No, I haven't heard that system! I guess I know the Oracle and FR64 well enough, but not the rest. But nothing flat earth about it!
OT (apologies Dowser!): Slow, and not terribly reliable. One day I had been left "in charge" (as a young lad with little clue) of looking after the chap who had come to repair it. It worked by the components being delivered to the head area, the head rotated attachments round to take a resistor or diode from one place, or a cap or a transistor from another, then rotated to take them to the PCB. It would shunt the PCB about on a X/Y screw driven bed to aligned with the component (using a camera looking up via a mirror ) with the PCB through-holes, insert the component and then bend the legs from underneath. Rinse and repeat.Many boards were still being hand populated then but some others were on the brand new 'auto insertion' machine. Nowadays you'd call that a pick and place machine, and that through hole machine was dreadfully slow by modern standards.
Linn used to sell a 45 adapter for the motor pulley back in the day. I probably have one somewhere.It likely was a Basik originally, both the same budget AT body, the Linn version costing more and having a worse stylus! You have an AT95E stylus fitted.
PS The thing on the platter is a ‘dinked’ 7” 45 adapter, not a record weight. Why it is there is most odd given the Valhalla can’t play 45s!
I'd love a chrome bumper NAP90. I have a 32.5 waiting around for one, one of these days.
A great score, that lot!
I'd love a chrome bumper NAP90. I have a 32.5 waiting around for one, one of these days.
A great score, that lot!
Keep it !I've got a nice 72 with mjs on the board