Never thought the time would come when i would sign up to a forum...

but here i am, dragged kicking and screaming into the digital age.

Iv'e been an audiophile since i was about 15, and i have to say i'm bang into vintage gear, specially The lovely old Jap stuff.
Not to say i don't love the valve sound, but a big monster tranny (careful what i say here...) turns me on.

My current system is as follows:

Homemade TT (halfway between a voyd and a oracle) with sumiko/jelco arm and denon 103
Teac VRDS 7 CD player
Sony 9000es SACD/DVD/CD
Onkyo 3090 preamp
Sansui AU-9500
Magneplanar MG1b

I have been collecting, buying and selling vintage gear as a hobby for about ten years and have owned just about every credible bit of gear going.... i love the stuff!... as i'm writing this, my pics are loading of my audiomaster LS3/5a's to stick on the bay!

regards and hope to have many 'audio-chats' in the future.

Hi FI Steve

Welcome Steve! Think you and DVV may have lots to talk about regarding vintage Jap gear. Enjoy the forum!

We're all geeks here steve, you fit right in

cheers! i will do. regards steve

Yipeeeee, a new geek

Hi Steve, good to see you, thanks for joining our small little audio community, get stuck in!

Thanks for making me feel welcome guys... 'spose i better share to the world my homemade TT (not acctually made by me..)

My mate Richard varney made it as an A level project when he was 17! (he's 40 now)

It really is something, all the woodwork is solid mahogony, the sub platter and even the bearing was hand made on a laith.
he even sandwiched layers of acrillic together to make the origianl platter! (it uses a gyro deck platter without the weights now)
the sub chassis is mdf sandwiched inbetween two sheets of acrillic & is sprung with 3 springs from an old garrard sp25 (!)

....now, how do i get pics up here?

wotcha steve.

wucha boss