I have to put in a good word for the Bush MTT1. I first heard about it from this very magazine and laughed at the picture. Anyway, I used to own a good quality budget seperates system mainly consisting of a Mission Cyrus One, Philips CD850 MKII cd player and Ariston Pro turntable (all picked with the help and advice found in What hi fi at the time), but with the onslaught of MP3s and internet music, it was being used less and less. Anyway, to cut a long story short, I flogged the lot and used the money to buy a Fatman Itube amp and dock as nearly all my listening over the past few years has involved the laptop or an ipod and I needed to downsize for the new living room (thats not true, the wife said it was to big and black!). The Fatman blew me away, I use it through a pair of Mission M73s with good cables throughout and recently invested in a Revo Iblik which allows me to stream mp3s from the laptop and listen to zillions of radio stations. I got the loan of an MTT1 a while back (2 years ago) with the intention of archiving my vinyl, never got round to it and ended up buying the MTT1 off my pal and then it sat in the corner of the bedroom under a pile of shoes for a year and a half. So....., recently I have discovered the difference between MP3 and Lossless, as a result I have been filling up my harddrives at an alarming rate with lossless files and somewhere along the line I have been yearning for a return to my wannabe Audiophile on a budget origins, so I dug out the Bush and clagged it into the Fatman, I was left speachless, so was the wife when she heard me rummaging around the loft for my vinyl, Brothers In Arms, Baker Street, Hunky Dory, Transformer, whatever album I put on, it sounds awsome, a lot of them I have on the pod, I put my hand on my heart and tell you now, if your used to listening to ipods and mp3 players, even on good systems, nothing beats a good old record, and the Bush, I can honestly say, if you close your eyes and listen to it playing, it will blow you away,(just dont look at it, ever, it looks like it sucks, big time!) if you have three hundred pound to spend on a turntable, spend fifty on the Bush, and blow the rest on records and woman (not the wife!), it is that good. (also, I am pleased to say, belts stylus and cartridges are all easy to find, thought I would put that in because I just noticed how old this thread is so doubt any one will see this, hope they do though). Of coarse it wont beat a Rega, or a Pro-ject, but you will not find a better stop gap, and I also firmly believe that Cd players and Turntables should never be compared together, but my records definately sound better on my bush than my Cds do on my cd player (150 quid Technics, not brilliant but well respected), they are just more involving, bigger, I dont know, just not used to having to get up and turn the over, but as far as sound goes..... better, 30 - 40 quid? for the Bush, I paid 40 quid for a cartridge on my Ariston Pro back in the day, oh, whatever you do, if you have seperates system, no matter how old, just dont sell it, you will regret it. yes, Iam rambling on like a looney, thats cos Iam monged on vodka and coke typing this whilst listenin to Hotel California on the Mighty Bush. If you buy hi fi to listen to music, rather than buy music to listen to your hi fi, the Bush is faultless......and no red blooded Audiophile can, or would, tell me differently (thats cos they are an intelligent breed of folk you know!) and most importantly of all when it comes to looking at hifi in magazines, your budget is never enough, the grass is ALWAYS greener, enjoy the music on what you got, cos its all you need, anyway, Iam gonna sell me kids on ebay now, hope to get enuff for em sos I can buy one of those fandangled project genies or a rega, one of those old Rega Planer 2s, they look well cool, did turntables always look better in the 70s? Cors`, the technologies never really changed has it? Just the prices and the power supplies, interesting. by by, `hic`!
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