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    S/h buying advice - £500 for second hand system - suggestions please

    l Thank you very much for taking time to type this lot in! great suggestions, and i love my NAD amp which might well be the C320 - but it's in storage so I can't check the exact model number and I've got a Marantz CD :)
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    S/h buying advice - £500 for second hand system - suggestions please

    got a ton of LP's from back when he was a long haired rocker going to Monsters of Rock festival in the 80's. listening room is probably 16ft by 13ft
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    S/h buying advice - £500 for second hand system - suggestions please

    floor we recon - but wouldn't kick decent bookshelf/standmount speakers out of the room - he can nick his family food budget to pay for the stands if necessary - they are vegans so can eat tree leaves for a month if it comes to that :)
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    S/h buying advice - £500 for second hand system - suggestions please

    One of my friends has just hit 60. We (as in school friends) have given him about £500 - £600 to blow on a s/h separates system. Amp, Speakers, CD and record deck. Would you guys mind making some suggestions as to kit he could look at as a starting point. I think he's overwhelmed by the...
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    cd player used recommendations - slim budget - finger hovering on ebay waiting :)

    just gone for a Marantz 60006 on the back of this conversation - a bit over budget but newer than some of the 20+ year old jobs - and hopefully will last for another 20 (by which time I'll probably be deaf)
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    cd player used recommendations - slim budget - finger hovering on ebay waiting :)

    there are plenty of older denon, marantz, spotted an arcam for about £70 - yep I get that working may be 10 mins or 10 years although I'd prefer the latter obvs! Nothing locally on gumtree within 20 miles unfortunately.
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    cd player used recommendations - slim budget - finger hovering on ebay waiting :)

    Hi Experts and other knowlegeable folks. I'm moving in with my partner and she has a bunch of CDs so I would like to add a secondhand CD player to the system. I've an old NAD 320 running Mordaunt Short Floor standing speakers. Mostly streaming but with a decent budget turntable (also in the...