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All working thanks to the aerial suggestions and the nice chaps at Quad who refurbished it after I found it languishing in the revered parents attic.

No, I'm not spending thousands on a pair of period ESL speakers. I may look for some better ones than I am using at some point.

There's a 303 in the back BTW

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16 minutes ago, Count Bassy said:

Though my amp, CD player and turntable have kept relatively up to date, my main speakers are still a 1973/74 pair of Goodmans Havants that I bought new at the time.

I have a pair of Goodmans Magnum SL's (bought from Laskeys in about 1974) upstairs. My son used them for his hi-fi system up until last year.

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Nice old Quad kit, it's good that Quad are still around and are happy to service it, makes a nice change to the throwaway culture of today. Full marks for knowing that it is good stuff and is worth keeping and getting it running again.

Yes, you'd probably benefit from some better speakers, keep an eye out and you can pick up something decent for not much money - a good tip is to look on the usual websites for someone local to you who is looking for collection-only. You don't need to go mad and get some mega-expensive speakers but it would be worth putting them on stands rather than on the shelf and up against the wall as with your Aiwas. Apologies if you know all this, it's just worth getting the most out of things.

Old hifi can sound great and just keeps going. I'm writing this whilst listening to radio (2, Steve Wright - sorry...) on a 1970 Leak Stereofetic in its wooden case, through a Rotel RA-820BX amp and some Mission 731 speakers. My other system is an early-1980s Systemdek II turntable (the 'oil rig'), a Rotel 930 amp and some 1976 KEF speakers. All picked up for not a huge amount and still sounding good.

 

 

 

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