Pic of our new listening station

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Offline Doc B.

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on: April 10, 2015, 10:14:19 AM
I was talking to Shawn a while back and we were reminiscing about the good old days when you could go into a record store and play records over headphones before you bought them. Shawn has a storage space packed full of vinyl and he has decided it's time to thin the herd. So we set up an old school style listening station at BHQ. Old school in philosophy, but done with new school Bottlehead gear - a Thorens TD150 with an SME arm feeds a Reduction phono preamp, that is running into our top of the line Mainline headphone amp and a pair of Sennheiser HD800 headphones. Shawn has brought in a few hundred play graded LPs for starters, and he plans to restock pretty much weekly. It's just one more good reason to check out BHQ when you're in town.

Dan "Doc B." Schmalle
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Offline denti alligator

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Reply #1 on: April 10, 2015, 10:40:12 AM
Damn, I wish Seattle weren't so far away!

- Sam

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Reply #2 on: April 10, 2015, 12:47:52 PM
It looks great! Nice job team!

Aaron Johnson


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Reply #3 on: April 10, 2015, 01:36:08 PM
time for a second bottlehead quarters..  on the east coast ;-)  Like that turntable, that case looks really cool.

Dave



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Reply #4 on: April 11, 2015, 09:25:48 AM
Wow!
That looks killer!

Is that upstairs?

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Reply #5 on: April 11, 2015, 09:49:23 AM
East coast is so far away...how about 1 step at a time.

Midwest is the way to go!  Something on the outskirts of Chicago - west of Chicago would be really nice.   ;D

Aaron Luebke


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Reply #6 on: April 11, 2015, 12:25:06 PM
That looks as nice as I bet it sounds!  I like the rack the equipment is on as well.  What is it?

Steve



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Reply #7 on: April 11, 2015, 12:58:17 PM
That poster really ties the room together.


cheers Howard



Offline Bill Epstein

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Reply #8 on: April 11, 2015, 03:00:51 PM
Looks outstanding and the listening station takes me back 50 years to Arthur Newman Records in my Cleveland suburb. All that's missing is the rotating Pfanstiehl needle display.

Of special note is the record rack: I wouldn't trade my own set-up for anything but I might trade my Heckler for the room to have a rack where you can flip through the records!


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