System Pics 2023

Indeed we should be Mtuttleb :crazy_face:

Sorry, I could search but did you do keel karousel and the top motor plus phonostage. I would like a kandid to replace my old Akiva but only have standard arm board and cirkus plus ekos2 mk2 and lingo2 plus Linto but when I added the Akiva it was really very good even with what I have

At risk of diverting the thread further, can I suggest the Lyra option?

I went from Krystal to Kleos. It’s quite a step in SQ imho. When worn out, the trade-in terms are also vastly better than Linn’s current deal, which means you can pretend it was a bargain when mates ask. I don’t know about comparative pricing in Oz, but at least they don’t have to be exported from Glasgow


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Yep

LP12 ARO Keel /ARO/Kandid / Armageddon/superline/ supercapDR

Second LP12 is the 40th anniversary Klimax - Keel/with EKOS SE / Kandid /Urika/ Radikal machined

Both have had the Karousel installed

Lots go for the second configuration, I just like the first with ARO for some reason by a smidge

It’s amazing how the music is portrayed differently

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Ok so really source first then before sorting the cartridge, which of course right.

Spot on - for me always :+1: cartridge last

I think there is nonetheless a balancing act at the source as well especially a turntable. I remember trying a klyde and did not like it at all. The only thing that did it for me was Akiva. This was all pre keel, urika and radikal by the way
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Sorry for the diversion but I notice an unfamiliar Bauhaus album on the LP12 - may I ask which it is?

1978-1983, the double album with the live Bela Lugosi.

A chum who likes metal thought that anything worthwhile with a goth tinge started in Scandinavia, so


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Err no!

Northampton if I remember correctly!

I seem to remember vaguely that beggars banquet put out a volume one and two, sort of best of

Should’ve looked it up first.
Remember seeing them many years back at Rock City, Nottingham.

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And Siouxsie was born in Southwark iirc.

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(only cos I’m putting off clearing the kitchen up)

Siouxsie was born Susan Janet Ballion[5] on 27 May 1957 at Guy’s Hospital in Southwark

i.e. not in Scandinavia as @NickofWimbledon 's chum thought all worthwhile metal acts with a goth tinge hailed from.

[edit: right, no more distractions, time to clear the dishes away]

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Awesome set up!

@anon17458420 Wise words my LP12/Karousel/Karmen/Radikal2/AOPU7 is slumming with a Linn Krystal but still sounds spectacular

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Just wait until you add a kandid, it will be so much better

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Thank you Dev, your’s ain’t too shabby either!

All I remember of Rock City is the sticky carpet. :blush:

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Assume the right speaker is level? It must be the camera angle as it looks lopsided.

Cor! Very nice indeed!

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And people bought bits.of it when it got replaced - but it’s just the same again now! :smile:

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