Freedom Fridays!

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Freedom Fridays!

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I've now structured my work to leave most Fridays free. If anyone fancies calling in here, just west of Durham, to hear the latest NVA amps, Cubes etc, bring me some new (to me) music to listen to, chew the cud and put the world to rights, then just PM me (or email: mail@hfsaudio.co.uk) a day or so beforehand. An enthusiast get-together, bring some tunes, bring some of your own kit, I'll put the kettle on and make a few sarnies, Scooby will hoover up the crumbs.

Hope to see a few of you guys, every now and then.
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Here's the sort of set up that I'll have running for the next few weeks...

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Garrard 401, Ortofon 12" tonearm, SPU cartridge, Longdog power supply, Phono 2
Sonore MicroRendu, RME DAC
P50SA
M600 / S300 or anything you want to hear from the range
Cube 1s
AP10H+ with some very nice cans that Tomasz lent me
BMU

It's not a sales pitch, just a get together. When I took on NVA, it was partly because I wanted to have the perfect excuse to spend more time chilling on the sofa listening to music. Now that we have a bit more 'freedom', it would be cool to meet a few more of you.
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Thursday is the new Friday!!

Visit from the 3Square Audio guys, Brian and Stuart, listening to a couple of their designs and the original Cube 1s.

Work is great when it's not work :guiness;
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Looking forward to a visit from Toontrev, tomorrow. Hoping he's got a few new LPs for us to spin on the 401...

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A great pleasure to see Toontrev again, today. Very enjoyable few hours swapping new finds both vinyl and streaming. Trev - you need to post your playlist on the forum. Loving my Freedom Fridays!!
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Picked up the perfect listening session accessory for Freedom Fridays. Now, we can all put our feet up!

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https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/fc67b ... 5d97c4ffd7

As promised, didn't play all the tracks but a fair few of them.

Paul's set up does sound really good and it was pretty good before all the latest updates. If you get the chance do have a listen, Id like to thank Paul for a very enjoyable afternoon although had a bit of brain freeze/senior moment trying to cable up a vintage amp I brought along!
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One chap booked in for this Friday morning, one slot still available in the afternoon...
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Enjoyed a couple of hours with NVA Facebook follower, Tony, today. After hearing (and seeing) the 401 and the Lenco, and the Cubes, he decided he needs to get a new plinth and a service for his Thorens (he's contacting Vinyl-Ant) and something to replace his KEF speakers. I hope to see him on the forum, too.

Tony bought along some familiar LPs to play; Nina Simone, Santana...but this was a new one on me:

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I'm away next week, but the 'hard work' will resume on Friday the 5th...
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That's one of my old favourites, Paul. If you enjoyed it, the follow-up - "Marrying Maiden" - is good too; and Jerry Garcia plays on it.
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Amps - NVA P50, AP30, A40, Stanislav Palo Tube Headphone Amp BB 85
Speakers - Monitor Audio Silver RX2
Cables - NVA LS1+LS3, SSC, Gotham S/PDIF, IBRA Optical
Digital - NAD C516BEE, SONY ST-SDB900 DAB TUNER, TEAC UD-H01 DAC
Analogue - Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Esprit SB, Graham Slee Gram Amp 2 Phono
Cans - Grado SR80, ATH-M50X

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