So more great memories restored from comments above by Frangos, Gianni, and Mr M.

I should have said I play the Technics thru Meridian 101b into a G91A. With a cheap Grado, it's a nice easy sound and maybe I will boost the cartridge a bit.

I bought the Lynn from Howard after seeing his ads and getting the idea about Subjective Audio. But I didn't buy Meridian from him. In 1980, I'd also seen ads for Swallow Acoustics, a startup owned/run by Mike Stevenson (Stephenson?)He had rented space at The Old School, Huntingdon. My wife and I met him in his "demo" room and compared his Swallow actives to Meridan M10s. He used Meridian M101/105s for power. No contest. We bought the Swallows and Meridians from Mike and eventually brought them home to USA. Now they're gone too, except for the 101b. So thanks Mike, and wouldn't it be great if you're out there, too!

When I picked up the Swallow speakers (Mike kind of made them on order), he needed a cable for the amps so we drove over to the Meridian plant just down the road. We walked in, he said hi to some guys and said he needed a cable and they said sure Mike...and that was that. Hope Meridian have boosted their security a bit since those good old days.

Last point...Mike used two LPs in his convincing demo. One was Gordon Giltrap and I can still hear the drums moving across the sound stage; the second, Sally Oldfield and her soprano just jumped out of the Swallows. I have LPs of both and they are pretty mellow on Meridian DSP6000s now! And I prefer the Lps to the CD versions on Meridian gear.

Roon, Technics SL10 turntable, Meridian 218, Jolida tube DAC, Nuforce STA 200 Amp and passive Swallow Acoustics ALS2 speakers