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The Doctor wants to get rid of the large speakers attached to our
gramophone. She wants mini-speakers because these take up so much space.

Big things made by Leak: about two feet tall and a foot across.

Date from late 1970s. Rather good sound quality.

Worth anything or is it a Freecycle job?

 

Umm... 3080s, by any chance?

Excellent bits of kit.

Not so much worth much money if they're needing re-coned by now, as most
of them are, but worth having if someone's prepared to take them on.
Re-coned they are bloody good.

 

IIRC Leak are a bit classis, but that's about as much as I know.

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Worth a punt on Fleabay, I reckon. My Quad amp *alone* seems to be going for
a couple of hundred notes. Leak was good kit: we had a Delta 30 amp, which
was superb.

Ali

 

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EXTREMELY-RAR...ryZ14993QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

If I was going to buy an old pair of speakers on ebay, it would be these:-
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/QUAD-ESL-63-FLOORSTANDING-SPEAKERS_W0QQitemZ260080361351

 

My Michi pre/power is possibly the only thing I own which is worth more
now than when I bought it (other than the house, that is)

 

Leak, great speakers, ebay 'em, they used to be made in the Wharfedale
factory not a couple of hundred yards from me!!



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A mate has some of those, they are utterly superb, just fucking huge.
As I say, made just round the corner from me. In the Wharfedale factory
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Nige

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Mmm,"gramophone" is it, queue sketch from Not The Nine O'clock News.

 

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Are you the same nige who used to post in uk.rec.home-cinema?

 

No idea. How do I tell?

 

I'd have thought eBay would be worth a try, lots of Leak/Thorens-era stuff on
there for the vinyl crusties

 

There should be a model number on a plate on the back - Leak plates are
usually a decent size. The 3080s tell you on the front anyway.

 

Yes he is.
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Interesting. I don't think I've actually ever heard one, and they are
pretty ugly.

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No, nothing like that. A round sticker with 5667 is all there is - that
looks like a shop's stock control number.

 

My Quads are currently talking to a very nice pair of Acoustic Research
speakers. Lovely deep warm sound, the ARs.

My Arcam gear should be with me in the next few days: been built, being
factory tested. I'm dead excited. Be interesting to see what the Quad gear
gets on Fleabay, too. And how the ARs sound with the Arcam.

Ali

 

So *that's* where I've been going wrong!

Well, normally I'd be one of them, but hey, each to their own. I *like*
Arcam kit, and some of the high end Tannoys are super. Personally I'm
happy with my Cyrus and MA GR10s which I think are literally
un-believable. Every time I stick something on, I seriously cannot
believe how much bass comes out of these little boxes. And it's all
totally controlled and balanced.

Heh. One of my favourite classical pieces. In either version. The CD
I have has the Mussrgsky version, Portraits at an exhibition, then the
Rimsky-Korsakov at the end IIRC.
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