Used Items For Sale

Mild steel support brackets. £150

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PAIR OF MILD STEEL SUPPORT BRACKETS. 6MM WALL MOUNTING  PLATES DRILLED FOR ANCHORING TO WALL (CHECK BEARING CAPACITY OF WALL PRIOR TO INSTALLATION AND FIXING TYPE) 50MM X 50MM X5MM MS ANGLES WELDED TO PLATES TO PROVIDE SUPPORT. UPPERMOST BRACKET ARMS WITH THREADED BOLT ADJUSTERS FROM BELOW TO ALLOW LEVELLING (SUPPLIED). (LOWER BRACKETS NO ADJUSTMENT- USE SHIMS / SIMILAR (NOT SUPPLIED) IF ADJUSTMENT IS REQUIRED) BRACKETS ARE DESIGNED TO BE FINISHED WITH SAME PAINT AS WALL PLANE TO BLEND IN, AND AS SUCH, WILL COME WITH RAL 9010 MATT DULUX PAINT COLOUR PICTURED.

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Tektron TK2A350S REF power amplifier. Now sold

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Ex-dem with 10 hours of use.

Fascinating power amp with adjustable heater voltage allowing use of different output triodes – 45, 2a3, 300B, VT 50 &52.

Can use UX245, UX345, KR 242 and type 46 with adaptors.

Currently has Electro Harmonix 300B Golds.

JAN 5Z3 rectifier.

Retails for £3750 + VAT.

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Peerless 100-20 co-ax drivers – offers

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Rare 9 inch drivers with tweeter on frame in front of bass-driver dust cap.

Alnico magnets.

Not the first time I find a good co-axial driver outperforms a good full ranger. E.g. Visaton B200, Fostex etc.

Peerless did not bother replying regarding driver parameters but sensitivity seems very high – about 95db.

Original Jensen caps (which measure fine) supplied but have replaced them just in case. – see image.

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Mantrasound Naturelle speakers £1500

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95db 8 ohm super fast 5 inch Supravox bass/mid drivers with special wooden phase plugs.
Silver inductors and top quality capacitors in outboard 1st order crossover.
Best sounding bespoke dipole tweeter ever.
Great with 300B amps and amps with fullsome bass e.g Monarchy SM 70 etc.
Retail was about £5000

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Mantrasound Naturelle speakers front

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Pink Triangle PT00 – 650 Euros. Now sold.

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Serviced by Arthur K. at Funk Firm with Funk Firm Achromat and acrylic armboard.

This was serviced by Arthur and then traded-in soon after.
There are 3 drive belts and 3 hinge Lids.
A Funk Firm mat and perspex armboard plus the original armboard.
No lid.
Can supply and fit with excellent Gold Note B5.1 arm for extra £730.
(B5.1 arm in pictures is mine, but I could supply a new, unopened one.)

Excellent 3D depth and emotional involvement.

It has the bigger Pink Triangle power supply tested and working well.

PT00 fully tested 650 Euros without arm.

 

 

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Potentiometers

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1 x 50K TKD 2CP-2511. 1 wafer removed because of faulty track. Other channel wafer fine. TKD do not supply replacement wafers! Works fine as a mono or for spares. £25
1 x 500K Alps Black stepped. £65

2 x 250K Blue Alps £6 each.
3 x 100K 128Y stereo (Bourns) metal frame potentiometers. Stepped. £40
1 x 10K Noble potentiometer (excellent sound) in good condition. £28.

1 x 470K Sfernice – tighter bass than Blue Alps. £15

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Gold Note XS-93 speakers ex-dem £3500

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Retail £7500

White leather with piano black lacquered baffles.

Classic 3 way design with paper drivers.

Includes bespoke stands and spikes.

Rhodium plated terminals.

Crossover upgrades.

93db sensitivity, infinite baffle (sealed) , thin-wall construction.

Deep, fast bass, great detail. Superb with 300B SE amps!

Like a Spendor SP100R but faster, more responsive and suited to all music types.

A pretty-unique design combining the best practices of classic designs with modern technology.

More information from Gold Note’s website at the time in 2013 directly below the images…

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The XS-93 is a real 93dB high sensitivity 3 way sealed loudspeaker designed to achieve the best possible natural audio resolution in an elegant cabinet which cosmetically matches any modern environment. The XS-93s use a new extra light plywood cabinet specifically tuned which features the whole frame treated with real leather that provides a rational frequency resonance control. The rear panel works as passive driver helping the bass response extension of the speaker, thus obtaining an exceptional lifelike sound quality. The 100 litres volume cabinet houses one 12.5″ paper custom cone woofer, the only available on the market today of this size powering a sealed design. This special driver has a soft foam suspension that ensures low bass response, astonishing speed and a very high efficiency. The 6.5″ midrange is the same XS-96 top quality hand made paper semi-flat cone capable of handling high power with fine detail and extremely fast transient and dynamic response. The 1″ soft dome tweeter has a double split phaser which enables great dispersion over the front baffle of the speaker and provides ultra-fine detail that guarantees a wide and deep soundstage with very natural resolution. The hand made crossover is made with custom components such as large size film foil capacitors and precision MOX resistors wired with Goldenote solid core custom cables. The XS-93 features the Goldenote BP-01 binding posts exclusively treated with rhodium 100% nickel free to preserve perfect conductivity.

MAIN DETAILS Loudspeaker – 93dB high efficiency sealed speaker – 6ohm – 3way Floorstanding 105cm tall, 37cm wide, 40cm deep – 40Hz-20000Hz – 12″ paper woofer – 6,5″ paper Midrange – 1″ soft dome Tweeter TYPE: 3 way sealed speaker FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 40-20000Hz ±3dB SENSITIVITY: 93dB spl (2,83Volts/1mt) TWEETER: 1″ soft dome driver. MIDRANGE: 6,5″ paper cone driver. WOOFER: 12,5″ paper cone custom driver. SUGGESTED POWER AMPLIFIER: 5Watts – 100Watt MAX POWER HANDLING: 160Watts RMS IMPEDANCE: 4Ω nominal (8Ω from 500-20000Hz) quite resistive phase CROSSOVER: 350Hz@12dB/Octave – 4500Hz@12dB/Octave UPGRADES CROSSOVER components: PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS: (LxDxH): 360mm x 400mm x 1050mm with Integrated Stand VOLUME: 100 Litres each WEIGHT: 30.00 Kilos (88Lbs.) each packed FINISHES GENUINE LEATHER: Handcrafted real Italian leather with walnut front panel.

Siena Loudspeaker Cable – £850

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4 metre pair.

It features solid core silver conductors and the special Gold Note geometry.

A sealed Elastollan® air tube filled with a special mineral oil working as a dielectric enables an almost perfect impedance throughout the whole length of the cable while damping the electrical energy of the conductor.

Silver in oil-damped tubing.

The detail of silver without the sheen.

A really excellent cable – not really known in the UK

Retail £1400

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Ten Audio TAD-1 DAC – £2500

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Superb valve dac ex-dem.

Excellent, dynamic sound with 3 dimensional valve tone.

Upgraded GE output valves.

Later called VAD.

6Moons reviewing TAD 1 6Moons TAD 1 pages

HiFi Choice about DAC 10 DSD (2014)

HiFi Critic reviewing DAC 12 Enjoy the Music DAC 12 pages

Sounds superb even with basic computer audio set-up due to its tonal richness and scale.

Retail price £6995

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