Bought mine new earlier this year. Always attracted to the look. Walked into AudioT and they’d just put this one on display. Sounds rather nice too.
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Is that a photo of the old or the new one? Or are they virtually identical?
Ten grand seems a bit rich, I must say,
Was it really necessary for her to fondle those spheres?
Anyway, the bloke seems happy enough.
(I could be reading way too much into this ad., but subliminal it isn’t).
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The new one. Yes , 10 k is really exaggerated.
Hifi porn, so necessary 
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I think that she’s just ensuring that the balls are comfortably positioned.
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Exactly the amp and deck that my mate had. Not sure what speakers he had. I made do with his friend’s cast offs with a Dual 707.
That started me on the slippery slope
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Please turn the levels all the way up. As the gods intended.
Agreed. Can you imagine a CB 72/hicap/140 in the style of the CB Nait 2? I would lose my mind!
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Agree, I think the screen printed fascias of the CB range do look great, but a backlit LED alternative would have been rather nice.
There is some lovely nostalgia on this thread. Happy memories of some kit I once owned/yearned to own. Before buying ‘proper Hifi’, I went through the whole “flashing lights” phase - midi systems with 2 cassette decks and spectrum analysers (remember them!?).
When I first started work (and first had a credit card) I had a ‘real’ system which included a Rega P3, Musical Fidelity amp and KEF Coda speakers. I remember lying to my mum and dad about the cost, and I paid it off from the credit card over a year.
Crazy really - now I’ve made it through the corporate shark pool, I can spend more on Hifi, but nothing meant as much to me as that first system…
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This is a much more eloquent rendition of something I said earlier in this thread.
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Me too! Compared to the Wow and Flutter Philips machine it replaced, it sounded more than OK to me. Cool wedge shape, & it had sliders, huge VU’s and green LED’s - it looked dynamite on the dealer’s shelf. My first ever new fi fi purchase as a student, & I still have it somewhere.
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But without the glass platter I believe (for at least one thing) - the platter was some kind of composite material?
I had a set of GB3’s as backup speakers / looked like same cabs but a dome tweeter and posher grills - about a fiver more per pair! They sounded ace on a 12/SNAPS/250!
Well, I am amazed, thrilled and irritated all at the same time!
The price of the original, working or not is going to rise even further, especially if they start suppling new styli.
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I bought a Pair of Coda III’s just after lcokdown ended. I use them from time to time. Great fun.
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Before the Wharfdale Diamond was introduced in 1982, and maybe even for a while afterwards, you would find the Mission 700 instead, a speaker designed to induce somnolence in the listener IME.
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Spot on! Several mates of mine at uni had that exact combo whereas my system at the time was a Revolver Rebel, QED A230 & Mission 761s.
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That is pure HiFi porn
Shouldn’t be allowed
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