brit hifi, the best!!

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    penance Arrogant Cock

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    I am:)
     
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    SCIDB Moderator

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    Hi,

    Here are some more,

    Proac
    Manticore
    Magnum
    Tube technology
    Ruark
    Syrinx
    JPW
    Rose
    Tangent
    IAS
    TDL
    Beard
    Grant
    Trilogy
    Samuel Johnson

    SCIDB
     
    SCIDB, Sep 13, 2004
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    7_V I want a Linn - in a DB9

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    Good one but you can't possibly TDL unless you IMF.
     
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    amazingtrade Mad Madchestoh fan

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    JPW I should have remembered that. JPW were so underated considering they make some brilliant stuff its a shame they have not been able to keep up with the likes of Mission and the new chineese owned Wharfdale.

    With regard to manufactering the UK car industry is now booming. It is apparantly the most highly favoured country in the world to build cars now due to good industrial relations and high efficiency. Toyota, Nissan, BMW, Pegouet, Rover, Ford, VW, General Motors all build cars here as well as companies I have probably forgot.

    It is a shame not much HIFI is made here anymore although I think some Pioneer CD players may be British made unless that factory has closed.
     
    amazingtrade, Sep 13, 2004
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    julian2002 Muper Soderator

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    gm and ford both closed long standing factories in essex and bedfordshire quite recently moving them to europe (iirc).
    cheers


    julian
     
    julian2002, Sep 14, 2004
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    BlueMax

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    Cambridge Audio (good stuff like Azur at entry level) and
    AVI Laboratory, higher up

    Where does set ups like Affordablevalvecompany and Russ Andrews stand?
     
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    amazingtrade Mad Madchestoh fan

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    Ford still make engines in Essex though although not cars. So have Vuaxhall completly pulled out of making cars in the UK now? Isn't Elsmere Port still there I thought they built the new Astra there?
     
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    greg Its a G thing

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    Surely not too many folks own those Chinese mass produced oil paintings? I can say for certain none of my paintings originated in the far east.
     
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    julian2002 Muper Soderator

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    not sure about elsmere port but i do know that the big factory(s) at luton went, taking varous other local small businesses with them a few years ago - much wailing and gnashing of teeth locally.
    cheers


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    Decca
    SME
    NEAL
    Ferrograph
    Volt
    Chartwell
    RAM
    Nightingale
    Gale
    Coles
     
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    titian

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    Yes, brit hifi is the best!!
     
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    leonard smalls GufmeisterGeneral

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    Now sadly defunct as well - though Nic lives on as Isotek (which you could call a hifi company!)
     
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    Lt Cdr Data om

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    corr this thread has moved on....

    Tom Evans WM? isnt' he some back alley guy that knocks up some homemade junk in his back shop?

    Phew, Dean could easily outdo me on knowledge in a pub quizz, why don't you go on mastermind? british hifi from 60s to the present day( with a leaning to valve stuff) :D

    We don't talk about affordable valve guy on here, he committed the unforgivable. mind you, check this out when I was looking thro' loot..he's even here!!

    http://www.loot.com/rs6/cl.asp?acti...|=el34&search_categories=3812&type_of_ads=all

    Samuel Johnson??? Sounds like one of those Nigerian scammers on hififorsale.

    I don't get your meaning Mick Parry, sterile thread?

    Michaelab....forum suggestion, what about being able to combine quotes from multiple people in one thread? How tough to implement?
     
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    wadia-miester Mighty Rearranger

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    Tom evans? incoherant maybe but what else?
     
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    7_V I want a Linn - in a DB9

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    Is this what you mean? Just open another window for each quote and then do a bit of cutting and pasting.
     
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    analoguekid Planet Rush

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    All the simple ideas are the best, but often overlooked, thanx for the tip.
     
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    Hi Ian (Data),

    I'll bear than in mind. But I prefer pub music quizes. I'm on a good roll at the moment. I have won 8 out of the last 10 I have entered. I finished runner up in the other 2.

    It does dosen't it. Samuel Johnson was a scottish company that made a pre & power combo. I don't think it was a big seller as Russ Andrews seems to have bought into the company. Have a look at the links below.

    http://www.russandrews.com/product....&customer_id=PAA1410091404437DHLCHCKTYYFBGERQ


    http://www.russandrews.com/product....&customer_id=PAA1410091404437DHLCHCKTYYFBGERQ

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    SCIDB, Sep 14, 2004
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    technobear Ursine Audiophile

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    Something fishy about that one :D

    You do of course mean Hadcock, maker of the famous GH 228 uni-pivot tone arm :cool:
     
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    7_V I want a Linn - in a DB9

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    Have we had Lorricraft who make 'Garrard 501' TTs in their own right?
     
    7_V, Sep 15, 2004
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