@pindac,
'Interesting, One of my early ventures over a few years, when I started my earliest investigations into building my System by visiting places beyond the High Street was at the Ramada Heathrow Show.'
I've got a feeling I also went to that one, if it was the 1998 show! I think we had to catch a special tube train to get there as there had been a problem on the underground that Saturday.
Ken Kessler gave a lecture that day and I remember being surprised by how much more erudite and learned he appeared to be than the persona he adopted in his magazine columns for Hi-Fi News and Record Review.
Yes, a lot of the pleasure in this hobby comes from the social side with some of the warmest people you could hope to meet.
Only last year at the Leamington Spa show there was a guy who had restored and rebuilt some vintage reel to reel decks. He obviously knew his stuff but it was wonderful the way he was willing to share his time and knowledge with us, who barely knew how to operate them.
And it's good to see that Ken's still going strong. From his reference system, he seems unusually fond of the London Decca cartridges.
https://www.soundstagehifi.com/index.php/international/soundstage-uk/1440-what-is-your-current-refer...
'Interesting, One of my early ventures over a few years, when I started my earliest investigations into building my System by visiting places beyond the High Street was at the Ramada Heathrow Show.'
I've got a feeling I also went to that one, if it was the 1998 show! I think we had to catch a special tube train to get there as there had been a problem on the underground that Saturday.
Ken Kessler gave a lecture that day and I remember being surprised by how much more erudite and learned he appeared to be than the persona he adopted in his magazine columns for Hi-Fi News and Record Review.
Yes, a lot of the pleasure in this hobby comes from the social side with some of the warmest people you could hope to meet.
Only last year at the Leamington Spa show there was a guy who had restored and rebuilt some vintage reel to reel decks. He obviously knew his stuff but it was wonderful the way he was willing to share his time and knowledge with us, who barely knew how to operate them.
And it's good to see that Ken's still going strong. From his reference system, he seems unusually fond of the London Decca cartridges.
https://www.soundstagehifi.com/index.php/international/soundstage-uk/1440-what-is-your-current-refer...