what was the last piece of hifi you bought
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Record cutter? I’m guessing the wheels keep the vinyl from slipping on the turntable with the drag from the cutter. Also it looks automatic, like it’ll cut a stack.I’m not sure that it strictly counts as “hi-fi”, although it may have done once, but fate (with a little help, admittedly…) has reunited me with the item I regretted not buying at the Tonbridge Audiojumble.
paulfromcamden
Baffled
I’m not sure that it strictly counts as “hi-fi”, although it may have done once, but fate (with a little help, admittedly…) has reunited me with the item I regretted not buying at the Tonbridge Audiojumble.
Just googled this and found some YouTube videos - what a fantastic and completely bonkers bit of kit!
bigfish786
pfm Member
It’s a nice piece of kit, built like a tank, sounds like my old Marantz SA14S1SE. I’m using it mostly for CD playback and using the internal dac for the TV. Not played any MQA stuff yet, so can’t comment on that yet.
Peter from Sleaford
Active Member
Last bit I bought was the superb Matrix Audio SPDIF so I could use the i2S connections
Beobloke
pfm Member
It’s a Markel Playmaster from the 1950s and is an autochanger that uses a double-sided pickup head and those three idler wheels on sticks to play both sides of the record.
Video of it doing its stuff here:
It was a US product so they’re rare over here but this one has the correct 50Hz motor pulley and came with its manuals, service sheets, four new old stock pickup heads and some letters between Markel and Sir William Garthwaite, who purchased it from them originally.
As to my plans, I shall clean and service it and then use it to play my 180g audiophile LPs, six at a time!
CTank
pfm Member
Project The Classic turntable, and a Rega Fono MC, both (separately) from eBay.
Great deal on the turntable, and exactly the kind of seller you hope for. Lot’s of nice equipment, everything immaculate, all the packaging.
Bit of a landmark purchase for me, freighted with symbolism. I sold my last turntable when my first child was born. He’s 15 now, so time to see if I get back into vinyl. Or sell the lot and invest in a great DAC.
Great deal on the turntable, and exactly the kind of seller you hope for. Lot’s of nice equipment, everything immaculate, all the packaging.
Bit of a landmark purchase for me, freighted with symbolism. I sold my last turntable when my first child was born. He’s 15 now, so time to see if I get back into vinyl. Or sell the lot and invest in a great DAC.
How are the LS6? How do they compare to your ls3/5 or p3esr?
Jono_13
Duffer
A bit scruffed up but working well
Wow, it had a brutal paper round in a past life!
A faulty ifi iphono2 phono stage which has no sound output via the moving coil input, to use as a moving magnet input in the system in the lounge. Sounds great, not sure what the issue is with the MC input and probably will never bother testing it to try and find out, just pleased to have something so physically small that it fits on the rack behind the LPs and frees up shelf space for other things.