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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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The JJ EL84 is a really nice sounding EL84 I think - quite a lot nicer than Russian jobbies, but more prone to failure unfortunately. Much better than their KT88 in the general scheme of things, which I really wasn't keen on.
17 Watts though...
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Looks very nice Jerry. Not heard of this LA Audio, unless its an offshoot of the PA company.
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A pair of Brimar 6060 Yellow T (ecc81 / 12AT7 equivalent) have arrived and been installed in the el84 amp ....
Interesting comparison with the JJ 12AT7.
The JJs are more focussed, the Brimar more expansive and enveloping.
Which is best?
Both are good!
More dynamic subtlety with the Brimars, I think, and a bit more tonal lushness.
They probably need to get a few hours on them.
It's no hardship to listen with them. Yum.
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Good one Jerry
I've got a Brimar with that yellow T on it. I think I hate it purely because I think the yellow T looks crap.
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I know what you mean.
But swapping back to the JJs .... .... the Yellow Ts are the new top choice.
They aren't so much "more expansive and enveloping" as simply showing more of the recorded acoustic space. On further listening, the focus of the JJs is still there, just set within a more detailed spatial context.
Nice.
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Hmm ... Airlink balanced transformers do work rather well.
Buzzed like hell in a 4 or 5 second cycle before I put the DC blocker (black box) in before it - now nicely silent!
It just makes everything sound that important bit more natural. Less etch (although I hadn't realised before that it was etched) with more natural presence. Somehow subtlely more solid sounding. Difficult to quite put my finger on the improvements - but a very decent vfm upgrade.
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I had one for a few years. I took it out and wasn’t missing much (YNWAN and his friend misterdog that I sold it to did report a worthwhile overall upgrade). However, I did have DC on my mains like you obviously do Jerry. In some homes a DC blocker is required. In my old house it sounded like my HiFi does in the evening, or ‘on a good day’ as they say. I suspect the noise floor is lowered and the grounding improved. The changes are from an ‘overall’ perspective with balanced mains, and well worth trying, but for me too bulky and more subtle in my new home compared to my old one.
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