Oh go on, Hamish - you'd love it, I guarantee you. It'll be a right larf in the AoS room. You can have a bloody roast anytime!
Marco.
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Oh go on, Hamish - you'd love it, I guarantee you. It'll be a right larf in the AoS room. You can have a bloody roast anytime!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Location: Hampshire
Posts: 6
I'm Jonathan.
I was involved in some CI projects some years ago, and we used Control4 kit along with the usual Crestron & AMX.
The beauty of the above is feedback, pending your device has RS232 (not really likely on a valve amp huh..!) but, it's great gear and really very customisable so you can set macro's to start a sequence to turn your amp on, dac, cd player or whatever else and dim your lights (check out RAKO kit, really well priced and dead easy to program)
Lower down the ladder you have the Philips Pronto which is seriously excellent again, mostly IR, if you are prepared to either pay someone to program it for you or take the learning curve, you can build a nice front end for your remote.
Logitech Harmony, i've used 00's of these over the years and they're dead easy to setup with a rather awful PC + web connection (not sure whether they are mac compatible) but fairly easy to build a decent user interface (the 895 is a decent bit of kit, but has since been superseded)
Even further lower down you have the 'one for all' type things which I loathe, but appreciate they're capable. Just.
Happy to help where I can.
JT
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Location: Sarf Lunnon
Posts: 2,068
I'm Dave.
I have used one of these for quite a while now. Works well and looks good.
http://www.cambridgeaudio.com/assets...UserManual.pdf
In - Tweaked Lenco GL75, Linn Ittok, Ortofon Cadenza Black
Through - Croft Micro 25 RS LS, power R monoblocks, RIAA R. Ortofon ST-80 SE SUT.
Along - Tellurium Q Ultra Black cables
Out - Harbeth SHL5 Plus XD's
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Dave
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Location: Southampton
Posts: 1,620
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New Member
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 6
I'm Jonathan.
And i've just read about this product: http://thinkflood.com/products/redey...specifications
There are of course, other models within the range and, if you have an iPod/iPhone and a spare few quid, I think it's an excellent alternative to the likes of the pronto et al remote.
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Location: Kingston, Surrey, UK
Posts: 774
I'm Alex.
Logitech Harmony 300 or similar would be worth a look.
I have a Logitech Harmony 885 in a drawer somewhere... I'd be willing to part with it at a reasonable price - PM me if you're interested.
Regards,
Alex
Technics SL1210| Jelco SA-750| Benz Micro ACE SM MC| Squeezebox Touch/MCRU linear PSU | Cambridge Audio 851C | High Resolution Music Streamer II+ / Linestreamer+ | Raspberry Pi 2/IQ-Audio DAC+ / Max2Play | Conrad-Johnson ET3 Control Amplifier| Conrad-Johnson LP125sa KT120 Power Amplifier| Avalon NP Evo 2.0 Speakers| Cardas Audio Quadlink-5C Speaker Cables and Interconnects| Finite Elemente Pagode Signature E-14 equipment support
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Location: Brisbane
Posts: 1,595
I'm Bernie.
I use a Logitech Harmony 555 and it works fine. Takes a while to set up and fine tune though.
Bernie.
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Location: Plymouth, UK
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Dunno if this will help...looks quite good
http://www.gear4.com/showcase-unity/
If only it was that simple
Main System :
Quad II/40 amps, Music First passive pre, Tannoy Stirling SE speakers, Technics 1200 + RB301, V-LPS, digital streaming from Mac mini via Lifatec Toslink to Moon 300D. Meier Corda Arietta headphone amp, Sennheiser HD650 Phones. Mark Grant i/c cables. Speaker cables, Audioquest Rocket 44 BiWire.
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