Senior Member
Location: Glasgowshire
Posts: 9,663
I'm Gary.
Hello from Glasgow
Hi all.
Came across this forum by accident yesterday!
Looking good. like the "feel" of it....
I'm usually wasting too much time on the web on the 'Wam and sometimes even the WTF forums.
I've just discovered the joys of Dacs and Squeezeboxes so my CD Player sits dormant.
So,
Good luck to all the Mods with the new forum, looking forward to contributing.
G.
Last edited by Gazjam; 15-10-2008 at 13:09.
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,012
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Hi Gazjam,
A very warm welcome to AOS, and thanks for your kind comments
Where in Glasgow are you? I used to live in Thornliebank, Crookston, and Paisley.
So what system are you running? We wanna see some pics! Tell us about your DAC and Squeezebox.
Marco.
P.S Do we call you 'Gazza' or do you have a real name?
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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Senior Member
Location: Glasgowshire
Posts: 9,663
I'm Gary.
Hey Marco,
I'm about 10 miles along the M8 from Glasgow City, and I work in Paisley.
I'm Gary by the way.
I put my System in my sig but it aint showing up for some reason...hmnn.... *EDIT: Oops - there it is! *
Bit of a budget/mid-fi system here....
Cambridge Audio 640A Amp / 640C v2 CD Player
Acoustic Energy AE109 Speakers (sublime)
Tacima mains conditioner (big improvement!)
Bi-wire Anti-cables/Gotham 4mm to my 109s
Uhm.....what else.
Squeezebox 3 directly into Stan's Mark6/3 Dac
The SB3/Dac combo leaves the 640C waay behind, I havent played a CD since I got my squeezebox up and running.
I'm very happy with my system and dont feel the need to make any real changes to it. Lucky me!
Pain in the ass though ripping about 800 CD's though!
That reminds me...I better back my FLAC files up somewhere!
I went through a phase of tweaking anything I can think of, the usual - squash balls, granite chopping boards etc, and a lot of that became redundant once the Squeezebox came in to my system.
But I like to discuss system tweaks etc and will get stuck in to those kind of discussions!
Stan,
thanks for the mention...for the record I feel you got the bad end of the stick on that forum.....never mind.
This is a good place to be!
Last edited by Gazjam; 15-10-2008 at 17:52.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,012
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Excellent stuff, mate. I know Motherwell pretty well and also Wishaw.
We're all guilty of tweaking this and that at some point in our hi-fi adventures - it's all part of the fun. However, on here our tweakery tends to involve messing about with turntables and valves, or the intricacies of computer audio; in short things which actually make real differences.
Anyway, get stuck in and have fun. Your views on any subject are most welcome
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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Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
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Location: http://www.homehifi.co.uk
Posts: 6,288
The worst tweak I ever tried was Durex.
Senior Member
Location: Glasgowshire
Posts: 9,663
I'm Gary.
Stan,
Should have used some of THIS:
http://www.lpgear.com/Merchant2/merc...tegory_Code=PE
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
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