With a bit of luck my Axis just needs a clean-up, new belt and oil. The Akito was an option when I bought it, I think the default was the Basik arm.
The main challenge with it will be replacing the K-9 cartridge.
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Or at least the stylus assembly - Audio Technica made it, there are some ATās which apparently still work well with the K9 body.
My dealer told me today that Naim are going to launch a tin grey Classic system with black knobs bundled with a pair of tin Sopra speakers with concrete side panels.
I said, āno chance, youāre pulling my legā, then I noticed todayās date!
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Imagine if you had fallen for that you would have really felt you had been had 
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I would never fall for such a ridiculous idea!
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From John Darko on Youtube, the joy of music and review cliches, superbā¦
āBuchardtās S400 MKII is a GIANT KILLER!ā
Time then Richard to buy a Mk1 Quattro!
The guy isnāt really a friend, but Iāve seen him around mostly in Waitrose car park! When I saw his car at the vintage rally just went and had a chat so donāt know what system. If is see him again Iāll ask.
Reminds me though of when back in 1990 we bought a Cavalier as our first daughter had just arrived and needed space and it came with the upgraded Phillips unit with Dolby and metal tape setting. I bought some TDK MA X and made some tapes on my Denon deck from my Ariston and people were genuinely really impressed when I gave them a lift. Roll forward to when the Golf arrived a few years later which had a tape player and 6 disc CD and just how the tapes killed the CD. Similarly in my current BMW R3 on FM kills DAB or the CD/rips. To this day the tapes in the Cavalier and Golf were the best sound Iāve ever had in a car. Progress?!
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Good effort. When I was about 8 or 9, our teacher spent an afternoon teaching us about the āgoose neck wirelessā which was followed by a fairly substantial homework assignment. I still remember his huge grin the next morning when he told us it was an April Fools prank. Brilliant. 
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Yes! I remember the TD1200 - deck of my dreams. Unfortunately, I couldnāt afford the beast but did get itās little brother - the TD800 - same deck but with a manual, instead of auto, azimuth adjust. Sounded wonderful at first but, sadly, very trouble prone - so much so that my dealer ended up swapping it out for an Alpine 7347 instead.
Canāt believe that was almost 40 years ago! I maintain that system (Nakamichi/alpine head unit, Nakamichi 4 channel amp and Nakamichi speakers) was better than the Mark Levinson in my Lexus LS460.
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