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bigman80
Hi all,
Thanks to the hospitality of an esteemed AoS mod, there will be a phonostage bakeoff taking place in Stoke. Currently confirmed as attending are Alan (Firebottle) with his Vivant phonostage, myself with my DIY "Wizard" phonostage and Macca (Martin, The Host)
We are hoping to get a Paradise phonostage owner to volunteer to attend and we are also actively looking for a NVA Phono2 (MC input) to participate.
As you can see, our aspiration is to get some of the top phonostages together in one room. If anyone has a Vida phonostage, or something of similar ilk (MF, LDA, VALAB LCR, Tron, Ray Samuels, Croft RS) And would like to attend, please get in touch. There will be a lot of photos taken so give them a clean too
A date is TBC but should be before June
System will consist of a cocktail of:
Technics SP10 MK2, Tenuto Platter matt, PMAT 1010 tonearm, Kontrapunkt b cartridge into either NVA pre or Slagle AVC into either NVA Monos, Krell power amp or Firebottle Monos, into JM Labs speakers or Tannoys. Cables are NVA or SPOTFIRE or ...... Whatever you may wish to bring that sounds best.
This part will be confirmed on the day.
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OK this has been already talked about here when I was informed that I would not be *ALLOWED* to attend but they wanted me to send product
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What fantasy land do these people live in to be that rude and expect me to help. It is just another declaration of war. So my first shots in this new war say, ONCE AGAIN, if I am not there then nor is NVA. ALSO if any NVA user supplies them with a NVA unit they will be banned and black listed. I do not get insulted like this and they get away with it AND I will find out where it comes from. I am there or NO NVA - full stop.
What planet do you live on Biggy, would you put up with this 'cos I wont. This is a manufacturer organised bake off that was supposed to be organised jointly between Firey and myself and now the host (who is not part of the event) decides to ban one of the organiser, do you have a brain man - just think, would you have it done to you?????????, Marco and AoS have turned it into an extension of the forum war - not acceptable!! But if it is war you want then you have got it.
AND - Yes you eeeeeeediots you haven't stopped me reading or copying posts from TAS.