He wants to buy my Sony
Busaboy
Location: Wirral, UK.
Posts: 674
I'm fightingmywayoutofawetecho.
He wants to buy my Sony
My System:
Linn Akurate DSM,Naim 32.5 pre amp Hicap,Naim Snaxo Hicap,3x Naim 250 power amps,Active Naim NBLs.
Dave Hewitt MR PLANK 4 watt SE and Jm Lab Electra 905s.
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Sherioushly?
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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Busaboy
Location: Wirral, UK.
Posts: 674
I'm fightingmywayoutofawetecho.
Yesh and the Helios too:-)
My System:
Linn Akurate DSM,Naim 32.5 pre amp Hicap,Naim Snaxo Hicap,3x Naim 250 power amps,Active Naim NBLs.
Dave Hewitt MR PLANK 4 watt SE and Jm Lab Electra 905s.
Site Owner/Administrator
Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,012
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Don't you mean the Heliosh, shtoopid?
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.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
Busaboy
Location: Wirral, UK.
Posts: 674
I'm fightingmywayoutofawetecho.
oops shorry i'm not as pished as you
My System:
Linn Akurate DSM,Naim 32.5 pre amp Hicap,Naim Snaxo Hicap,3x Naim 250 power amps,Active Naim NBLs.
Dave Hewitt MR PLANK 4 watt SE and Jm Lab Electra 905s.
Member
Location: Augher co. Tyrone N. Ireland
Posts: 66
hi ian i have the r1 das-r1 if you dont mind do the mods make a good improvement to the dac and what sort of costs ,i dont make much use of my player,i had the valve engineer paul hynes look at it a few years ago but said that there were many improvements needed -he did not rate it ,i would be interested if you found changes
Busaboy
Location: Wirral, UK.
Posts: 674
I'm fightingmywayoutofawetecho.
I bought mine already modded so couldnt comment on the standard dac,i think Marco bought his as standard though so he would be the one to ask.
Ian.
My System:
Linn Akurate DSM,Naim 32.5 pre amp Hicap,Naim Snaxo Hicap,3x Naim 250 power amps,Active Naim NBLs.
Dave Hewitt MR PLANK 4 watt SE and Jm Lab Electra 905s.
Circuit Junkie & DIY Room Forum Leader
Location: Notts UK
Posts: 1,805
Regulation and I/V stage design is just a couple of the things which tended to let a lot of the TDA1541 based dacs down
If Sony used classic op-amp I/V implementation and this was upgraded to something say without fb, regulation upgraded to lower noise and those tired old capacitors replaced it probably would improve performance no end
Cheers,
Leo
Member
Location: Augher co. Tyrone N. Ireland
Posts: 66
we are very lucky here in n. ireland to have a very fine hifi engineer i did get the circuit diagrams for the transport and the dac as my transport had to be fixed by him after a unsuccesful modification ,but any advice on the player is great im not in any rush and i can let him read all the recomendations and thank you very much
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Location: North Down /Northern Ireland/ UK
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I'm Neil.
Originally Posted by Giant Haystacks
Francis means Rodney Hanna. I have heard Francis Dac and it was quite good. Audio Com who do mods for these things are the best in the UK at it and would do a great job on it. I didn't know you had the transport fixed Francis, maybe I could get a listen to both sometime. Nice to see you back on line again.
Regards D S D L
Regards Neil
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