Exactly one month (it feels like six) after purchase, I am finally enjoying my Systemdek! And my oh my, it sounds superb!
It all started with surely must be one of the modern day deadly sins - surfing ebay after a couple of glasses of wine. I'd had my eye on a few turntables for a few weeks preceding, but here was one that was still a reasonable price and local enough for collection. Bid £2 above the current bid with a couple of minutes to go, fully expecting automatic bids to soon trump that. They didn't, so before I knew it I was the proud owner of a new Systemdek IIX-900.
Then the problems started. Firstly, the seller wasn't at all communicative - took nearly two weeks to arrange collection. When I did get to pick it up he admitted he was disappointed in the price he got; fairly certain he had hoped I'd give up on the deal.
Once I got it home, started looking for a Rega arm - there'd been plenty on ebay the week before, but now nothing! Rang a couple of local dealers and found one that knew a customer wanting to upgrade his RB300. Was priced a little more than I'd hoped, but was in perfect condition, with tungsten weight, and externally re-wired. So I went for it... then had to endure waiting a week and half for it to turn up.
Collected it last Wednesday with great excitement. Got it home, screwed in the cartridge, connected the first wire, went to connect the second - to my horror it had literally fallen off at the point it came out of the arm tube. Gutted.
Phoned up the dealer - no problem, bring it in he said, we'll get that fixed. Took it in, and he said he would get it repaired, or if I wanted, he could ask for a good price on a complete internal re-wire. So I agreed to ring the next day for a quote on the re-wire.
Phoned the next day, and the re-wire would be done for free! Happy days! Only frustration was waiting another week for the arm to come back from the re-wire. But hey, shouldn't complain!
So here I am, listening to Dark Side of the Moon, and all the waiting was more than worth it!
It all started with surely must be one of the modern day deadly sins - surfing ebay after a couple of glasses of wine. I'd had my eye on a few turntables for a few weeks preceding, but here was one that was still a reasonable price and local enough for collection. Bid £2 above the current bid with a couple of minutes to go, fully expecting automatic bids to soon trump that. They didn't, so before I knew it I was the proud owner of a new Systemdek IIX-900.
Then the problems started. Firstly, the seller wasn't at all communicative - took nearly two weeks to arrange collection. When I did get to pick it up he admitted he was disappointed in the price he got; fairly certain he had hoped I'd give up on the deal.
Once I got it home, started looking for a Rega arm - there'd been plenty on ebay the week before, but now nothing! Rang a couple of local dealers and found one that knew a customer wanting to upgrade his RB300. Was priced a little more than I'd hoped, but was in perfect condition, with tungsten weight, and externally re-wired. So I went for it... then had to endure waiting a week and half for it to turn up.
Collected it last Wednesday with great excitement. Got it home, screwed in the cartridge, connected the first wire, went to connect the second - to my horror it had literally fallen off at the point it came out of the arm tube. Gutted.
Phoned up the dealer - no problem, bring it in he said, we'll get that fixed. Took it in, and he said he would get it repaired, or if I wanted, he could ask for a good price on a complete internal re-wire. So I agreed to ring the next day for a quote on the re-wire.
Phoned the next day, and the re-wire would be done for free! Happy days! Only frustration was waiting another week for the arm to come back from the re-wire. But hey, shouldn't complain!
So here I am, listening to Dark Side of the Moon, and all the waiting was more than worth it!
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