I recently bought a variac. Thanks Geoff / walpurgis
I picked it up today from my tech chap who has done a lovely job casing it. Now the Yamahas can get the 220v they need. I'm delighted with it.
That looks excellent Paul. I wondered if you'd put it to use. Glad it's working for you.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
A couple of new arrivals - Luxman L-590ax and, courtesy of Ali Tait, a Luman AD8000 SUT.
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Very nice Paul . Your system looks fantastic . I'll have to get a date fixed out with you for a visit to hear it
Regards
Brian
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment . (Rumi )
Korus Computer Audio music server
JustBoom DAC . HRT Musicstreamer 2
Amplifier : Sony TA FB740R
Speakers : Tannoy 637
Interconnects : MS Audio / Klotz MC5000 .
Speaker cables : Western Electric 16AG
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I'm Andrew.
Beautiful.
Love the Luxman Paul, have a strange thing for VU meters...
The Luxman's Class A I think?
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
Thanks Gary. Hard to believe but it's the first amp I've had with VU meters. I must admit I like the retro look of the amp. You're right it's class A - 30 watts/8 ohms.
Decided it was time to upgrade my somewhat basic cabling. I thought that given the Luxman SUT has a silver transformer, I would get some silver cables so I bought this lovely arm cable from Yannis Tome with KLEI Copper Harmony plugs and he also made me a matching interconnect to run from the SUT to the amp. Topped it off with a pair of Chord Epic Twin speaker cables. Thrilled to bits with the system now. Could well be journey's end.