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I’ve had a number in the Aro; SPU Royal N, Troika, Goldring rebuilt Fidelity Research FR1 Mk.IIIF, ESCO rebuilt DL-103, Koetsu Black, OC9 MLII, AT33 PTG, and possibly a whole bunch more I forgotten about. The one you see in that picture is the ESCO 103.

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You really are a collector

I guess I’m curious and I like to try stuff out.

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Be lovely if we could see a video of your aro in action Richard?

Richard what’s your all time favourite cartridge and what would be if money no object a must to have?

Cheers richard I decided to go with aria ty

Pretty impossible to say as there are so many great cartridges out there and I have only listened to a small number of them. Probably the best one, cost no object, that I have tried is the Dynavector XV-1T.

However, I think it would be great fun to try out a load of cost no object cartridges. Bring 'em on!

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I’d like to hear a XV-1t and see what it brings to the table. I have the XV-1s and love it. If I had to replace it I would likely get the same thing again. I wonder how much better the XV-1t is for another $4k.

My original Edison Bell Discaphone, with upgraded soundbox circa 1906.
When people visit they’re totally disinterested in the Naim system, but this baby gets them! My favourite demonstration 78 is “The Last Time I saw Paris” by Noel Coward, the prat is amazing!

Chris

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A real beauty!
The cabinet is breathtaking of itself.

I understand it to be cosmetic revamp, to match Aethos amp.

Thanks, sadly they are not a matching pair, I found the cabinet at a local auction described as a “Georgian Wash Stand”, well it didn’t in any way look Georgian and when I opened the drawer in the top a gramophone needle rolled out, then the penny dropped and I got very excited and it explained the musical symbols carved into the sides, I think it cost me £80 but it was a few decades ago. The stand was originally sold with a matching horn gramophone, I found a picture of them together in an antiques magazine valued at an enormous price, so I did very well and it sets the Discaphone off nicely.

Chris

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Awesome! Although the image of the steel ‘needle’ on the record gives me an anxiety attack :skull:

regarding the aria its just the outer case thats changed to match thier other products everything else is unchanged personally i prefer the looks of the mk2
much better than the phono mc which i upgraded from

La Pedrera - Casa Mila (Gaudi), Barcelona, Spain
Dedicated room for vinyl.

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But they are changed after every side!

so cool!

Lovely specimen! Presumably the soundbox was changed to improve the performance with electrically recorded discs. Older soundboxes designed for acoustic recordings would ‘blast’ when confronted with the greater energy contained in the grooves of an electrical recording.

Thanks, that’s a good point. I took it for a service a few years ago to a collector in London, and I do mean collector, he had 25,000 78’s and more gramophones than you could count including one that was about 15 feet long with a huge horn. He also had a couple of Rolls Royce cars. When he fixed it he mentioned that the soundbox(which I still have) wasn’t as good as it should be for the model of player and said he would change it for a more suitable one, at very modest cost. The improvement in sound was dramatic, voices are very much better now and it sounds overall much smoother…bit like a power supply upgrade…but much less costly! One of the ongoing problems with 78’s is their condition, you can easily find them but finding good ones that will even play is difficult and can be costly but I suppose that’s very true of vinyl as well. I inherited a 78 copy of
Jimmie Rogers “Blue Yodel” from my dad, can’t imagine why he had it as his main interest was Mantovani, anyway it’s a lovely record.
Chris

Nice set up @Kimbleman. :+1:t5:

BTW, what type of plant is that between the speaker and the door?

Cheers, Rack.

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