There comes a time in every man's life when he has to choose - in Dave's case, between a car and a pair of loudspeakers. He'd agreed with his wife that if he had the car, the speakers would go. So in came the Porsche, and out went the Wilson System 7. He was still lamenting when we visited. Intending to replace the System 7 with the less costly Wilson Sofia, while waiting for them he'd borrowed a pair of Thiel CS-2.4s. These sounded very good, driven by Halcro DM10/DM38 with dCS Verdi/Purcell/Delius for CD and a VPI Scout turntable with Lyra Titan cartridge. Dave has certainly indulged in some spectacular equipment, but then the bug bit him at an early age. I was about 11 or 12... a Garrard SP25 with an Alba amplifier and pair of Wharfedale Dentons, bought out of a catalogue by my Mum. It was the family system, but I was the one that used it most of the time. Before that we had a radiogram, and I used to lie underneath and look at the valves glowing. But it was the Garrard/Alba thing that got me going. I think I upgraded the speakers to Lintons. Bought a Trio KD-1033 turntable, remember that? We heavily modified it - it had an SME Series II arm on it in the end, with a matt black paint job! It was fantastic, it sounded very good'.
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