David Kennedy said...

I have a SL120 with SME arm going into a 303/33 Quad powering a pair of
Leak 2075's and, whereas I've heard lots of other nice systems [well
some anyway] it does the job for me.

How do you find the 2075's?. I was going to get a pair in 1976 but went
for the 2060's instead, using them with a Pioneer SA 9500
http://www.classicaudio.com/forsale/pio/SA9500.html

I thought the treble a bit tizzy, the bass deep but slow and they had a
marvellous midrange.
The were also the most shoddily constructed and assembled piece of kit
I have ever had. One tweeter mounting plate had been miss pressed and
had a large bite out of one corner, the welding on the aluminium grill
surrounds looked like beginners practice pieces and the grills (which
were made from some hideous woven soundproof plastic fibre) detached
themselves from the pressed cardboard former within a fortnight, this
mattered little as the pegs which held the former to the cabinet broke
soon after and the grills and alu surrounds were ditched forever.

About a year after I got them one of the midrange drivers started
screeching badly, rubbing voice coil I think. Being up in Yorkshire at
the time; I took the offending unit to Idle (where Rank/Leak/Whatever
they were named at the time were based). The receptionist took me
through the production area (which was like a scene from Dickens,
really untidy; hand presses and saws, workers with fag hanging from
gobs and cups of tea in hand) to a well equipped lab area helpful chap
attached the offending driver to a signal generator whereupon it duly
screeched. This provoked a cry from the another bench of... "Not
another one buggered! Were any of those bloody things made properly?"

They gave me a replacement driver and also a spare one. Saying "You'll
need it, the other will go soon". Of course it never did and and they
are still going strong in the care of a friend. Who dutifully follows
my instructions and rotates the bass drivers yearly when they sag too
much on the oiled cloth surrounds.


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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/