If I’m honest, can’t differentiate between bare wire and these 2mm banana plugs? Oh well, at least they keep all the individual strands of the cables in place, 2 screws on opposite sides of the plugs do a good job of that.
While rummaging through my bits n bobs, I came across this,
Its a genuine Goldring/Lenco GL 75 forty five adapter from a LEAK branded version
Best thing, it matches the new acrylic platter mat on the Audio-Technica TT, perfectly!
A while ago, my youngest lad bought a AT LP60, turntable with bluetooth off Amazon. Anyway, when it arrived, it didn’t work or at least not fully in that the auto return kept kicking in as soon as the tone arm was lowered onto the record, so just kept going to rest position. Long story short, contacted seller for refund and told him to keep the TT and gave the refund too! guess what? I got it working! So, free TT Now the same issue has returned, I’ve told him I’ll have another look for him but he’s thinking of ‘upgrading’ slightly but wants another BT turntable, as, unlike his Dad, is not a lover of wires/cables/etc, I could fit him up with a very nice ‘old skool’ set up but he’s just not interested? He likes the AT LP120 I’ve just bought but its not bluetooth, the newly released version is about another £50-60 more. So, I bought this as a test mule and it works fantastically! Really impressed playing through my Fidelio B5 soundbar
Paired straightaway, remembered and automatically reconnected after switching off and on again. Ideally the TT needs a built in pre amp, which this has, switched to line level. Hopefully this gives him what he needs (minimum components/wires/
connectons etc). The BT gizmo works in both TX & RX modes too plus it supports two sets of headphones !
Forgot to mention, £20 delivered off Amazon!
Barrie
I like a mix of analogue and digital - I have 2 pairs of 1980s Tannoys each in our 2 front rooms - one set (the small ones Devons with 12" cones) for TV, DVD , CD and streaming sound and the other in the bigger room for music (streaming , CD etc.) Both have biggish Arcam amps driving them - and I love the convenience of operating the music from my phone, the Musiccast system is great!
I agree, by connecting a BT receiver to my old AIWA amp in the lounge, I can listen to Spotify and use the phone as a remote control for volume, track changes/selection etc, very convenient
I wish this Laney thing with its 15" cone had some real bass, but a slight mismatch between the reflex port tuning and the floppy bass cone means the bass drops off quite quickly below 100Hz and is very woolly.
It is excellent and loud for voice and guitar PA, but useless for a bass amp.
That’s fabulous! My ‘biggest’ are the 3 way Leak 600’s with the 12” sandwich bass speakers. Beautiful sound, they’ve been very well cared for and don’t suffer the sag of the heavy cones that sometimes occurs, causing misalignments. Mrs B would have a fit if they were installed in the lounge though! She was happy with the tiny Mourdant Short MS10’s What can I say?
I have happy memories of listening to the superb 15" Tannoy Monitor Golds we used at work. Each speaker was bi-amped with a Quad 405 (two channel power block) with external active crossover carefully matched to each speaker.
The beauty of the Tannoy concentric speaker was that the audio output could replicate a single pin-point source for zero phase distortion - the optimum solution. Then, with a carefully tailored active crossover feeding the separate power amplifiers for bass and tweeter, the sound was as near perfect as one could get. After that the major problem was setting up the room acoustics to also be perfect.
When waiting for the next booking to turn up we often used to just sit back and enjoy listening to the best quality music, something we never bothered to do with the previous “high quality studio monitors”
I think that is why music sounds so good through my old Tannoys - loads of recordings were mastered on very similar speakers - and they do sound great!
Slightly off topic but does anyone remember eight track tape players? Used to have one in my Vauxhall Ventora (straight six 3.3 litre, haycock electric overdrive) listening to ‘John Mayall’ Blues from Laurel Canyon. No room for one in the ND!
Awful things.
Great in their time but not only were the players bulky, the cartridges were too.
The smaller compact cassettes won out as their quality improved enormously, then CDs and now MP3 which gives enormous storage with excellent quality.
You’d have to be pretty perverse to want 8 track now…
Funnily enough, I’m just watching YouTube, “record-ology” the guy is doing a full feature on just such a thing! My very first stereo that I bought myself, was an eight track player with speakers! Got it from a shop called Contact, not sure if they were just in Leeds but used to sell second hand electrical gear. Bit like cash converters nowadays👍
Barrie
I remember people having them, “state of the art” as they were then, but I never had one. Even more “retro”, one of the lads had a huge s/h Chevrolet Impala (?) and it had a valve radio and a slot feed record player the played (murdered!) 45rpm discs.
or at least not fully in that the auto return kept kicking in as soon as the tone arm was lowered onto the record, so just kept going to rest position. Long story short, contacted seller for refund and told him to keep the TT and gave the refund too! guess what? I got it working! So, free TT 
What can I say? 
but I never had one. 
one of the lads had a huge s/h Chevrolet Impala (?) 
and it had a valve radio and a slot feed record player the played (murdered!) 45rpm discs. 
