Technics stack - tuner, Graphic Eq, CD Player, Twin Tape deck, Amp + Speakers - VGC in Crowthorne, Berkshire for sale

For Sale - in VGC A Technics Stack inc Tuner, GE, twin tape, CD, AMP plus pair of speakers. I am not splitting the items as they all connect together with cascading power leads, its a thing of beauty. They don't make them like this any more: I am selling this on behalf of my brother, who tells me that it works as new, and has been in dry storage. Technical details are: Stereo Tuner ST - x990L Graphic Equaliser - SHE75 CD SL - PJ45 + remote Twin Tape RS - x990 Amp SU - X990D Stereo Review YESTERDAY AND TODAY When I listened to the SLP990 at a dealers in Derby I was totally transfixed, I still recall listening to Simply Red, Paul Young, Queen and some other music from that era and being amazed at the resolution and detail clearly coming through. At the time my system had two really strong source components, CD was a second hand but brilliant Cambridge CD2 and analogue was a Townshend Rock/RB250/ATF3 set up. But I still remember how the Technics dug way deeper in terms of getting detail off the disc and presenting it in a really impressive way. For years everything that I listened to never seemed to live up to the Technics quality that I had heard. More surprising was the fact that my own Cambridge CD2, itself a really highly rated and revered player at the time, didn’t quite cut it in comparison. Unfortunately finances didn’t allow me to buy the Technics and ultimately both me and my system moved on to other sources, but I still remember the SLP990 so clearly due to the impression that it made and left. Maybe Hi Fi World could and should start doing some comparison reviews to establish if time has created rose tinted spectacle scenarios or whether some of those older players were in fact bloody brilliant and sadly overlooked and replaced all too quickly. For instance could you lay your hands on either the CD1 or CD2 Cambridge players, maybe one of the two Technics that I remember, or how about some of the early Phillips or Marantz models or something from the Sony ES range that got so many great reviews all those years ago. How about pitching them up against today’s machines or some from the last couple of years. Let’s see how much things have moved on and what, if anything, has improved. Obviously, besides CD source components I’m sure that the same intriguing comparisons could be leveled towards amps, turntables and speakers. How would a Pioneer A400 amp or an early 1990s Rotel RA820 measure up against say a new Roksan or something similar, how would a pair of 80s KEF Coda 3 cope up against today’s budget offerings, what about DP’s revered Yamaha NS1000 against Yamahas latest Soaves??? Bear also in mind that interconnect and speaker cables, stands, mains conditioning are all way beyond what they were 20+ years ago and that this could also really lift some of these older components to levels that they could never have reached when they first came onto the market!! The back pages of this magazine, e-bay and loads of dealers across the U.K (world!!) offer tons of second hand products. My own system is virtually 100% used gear, in fact my front end is a 17 year old Teac T1 transport, still mint, still working perfectly and although heavily modified shames many real high end and esoteric modern players (recently kicked a 3000 Naim into touch...even the Naim dealer scratched his head in disbelief!!!!). Second hand has allowed me and no doubt many other HI-Fi enthusiasts to buy into a level of performance that would be out of reach (certainly in terms of justifying parting with large amounts of cash at new prices), so a magazine that looks into and presents this market to a wider audience must be onto a winner in terms of capturing buyers and readers imaginations. I’m sure that your readers would find these types of tests interesting, maybe a little amusing and a great trip down memory lane but also an opportunity to see and read about progress (if any) in Hi Fi World. Dave Mayer