What is on your hi-fi wishlist?

DistortedVision

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I'm looking for a Thorens TD2035 in black for my Tag McLaren system. They never come up for sale on eBay etc. I don't think they were a popular model.

I've just bought a replacement Ortofon Cadenza Blue cartridge to replace a defective Kontrapunkt B. It was purchased 19 years ago but only had 100 hours usage so I was sad about its demise. Some consolation is that I only paid £430 and it had a trade in value of £285 against the Cadenza Blue.

I've had to put a tight control on my hi-fi spending as it got out of control.
 
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ianrjones

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On the subject of uncontrolled hi-fi spending, I pray nothing goes wrong with my car in the next three years.
I may become a pedestrian. And thanks to you all, I also purchased a mains conditioner/surge protector. There is going to be a lot of problems soon as here in the U.K. The National Grid is being massively overhauled. There will be hundreds of connects and disconnects. So take heed.
IAN.
 
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twinkletoes

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been happy with my system since 2018, can't really see me doing anything. Though if energy bills go sky high I might think about a less power hungry amp/system and take the opportunity to scale right back.
 

podknocker

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What about this player?

Never seen this before and it does look incredible. There's also a bigger version:

 

R2D2

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Never seen this before and it does look incredible. There's also a bigger version:


Review above. The bigger version looks awesome too.
 
What about this player?

Slightly cheaper there is this...
 
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Jasonovich

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My wish list?

I think I have everything, sure changing this or changing that might improve the sound further but keep hearing the little voice in my head, "No Jason". I was thinking of changing Panasonic 50" TV to 65" glorious OLED, "No Jason" Ask me again 6-12 months, hopefully I'm still holding on to the old Panasonic!

I was missing the harmonic distortion from vinyl, I even tried to write on a clean blackboard with chalk, cccceeeeek, ceeeek, ceeeek, nah wasn't the same, so I kept thinking harmonic harmonic harmonic distortion, where can I find it?
I don't want to spend guz-zillions on a turntable and starting up a new record collection. Man I need my shot, then the cat whacked me on the head with his food bowl, "FEED ME!"
Something clicked. Yes Eureka! Tube amps have harmonic distortion! Without further ado, I ordered my tube amp. I got my fix but maybe I need to show up at my local HiFi Anonymous Meetings, I need help man :ROFLMAO:
 

daytona600

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What do you use to rip DVD/Bluray?

OWC Mercury Pro 16X with / handshake / authoring / some extra software Onto 14/22TB Hard discs ,
upscaled 4k-8k then Feed to JVC 8k Laser Projector
in a custom case to match the UHD8000 Nephew is a very clever IT Guy and he built a custom one one for me
 
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good_enough

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A returm to about 20 years ago when charity shops were full of great albums from the 60s, 70s, and 80s for £1 each.
CDs have that place now. Guess everyone's ripped what they want to whatever hard drive they have and they're out there for peanuts. Our local dump flat out gave me a bag of CDs cos they didn't have a market. But 50p to a quid is the going rate.

Classical vinyl LPs still cost zip. Obviously whatever floats your boat, but I find it a great way to discover performers and conductors. Ferenc Frisnay? No me neither but having picked up his very lively Don Giovanni for pence, discovered a great Beethoven 7th. His Figaro not so much. But it cost me nothing to find all that out.
 
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I’m planning on picking up a Rega ND7 for my P6 next week. It feels a bit shortsighted though, as I have a feeling 2025 is going to be year of the LP12 (or similar beautiful looking & sounding turntable).
 

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