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    Quote Originally Posted by Ali Tait View Post
    Aye good thanks, yes would have liked to have been there, shame work got on the way. Gaz, was the Ellington an original or a reissue?
    Reissue, Ali. I bought my copy in Monorail in Glasgow. However, you can order it online at Juno: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/blues...FcgSwwodzGIApw It's an absolute MUST (and a bargain at £17.99) if you're a jazz music fan, and also wish to hear what vinyl replay is capable of, with a genuinely audiophile all-analogue recording, which shows off fully what the latter is sonically capable of.

    Played on a top-notch T/T, it blows any (fucked about with) digital recording of this album into the weeds [and I know because I've also got it on CD and as a file on my NAS]!!

    The whole album on YouTube:



    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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    Rather late to this thread, folks! Been quite busy catching up with a few things since returning from Scotland, so not much time for posting

    I'd just like to say thanks to Gaz for hosting a great little get together, and it was nice meeting you at long last! You've got a superb sounding system, mate, which (as good as the Mini T's are) is only destined to get better with the arrival of Nick's 300B box of thermionic lurveliness.... Can't wait to find out how that one goes!

    Your Gyrodec is undoubtedly one of the best I've heard (no doubt in part due to having been set up by Johnny), and also one of the best belt-drive T/T's I've had the pleasure of listening to. All the respective 'bits' you've assembled simply serve to demonstrate synergy in action, so if you have plans to further upgrade your T/T, make sure not to disturb that synergy.

    If I were you, I'd forget all about an SME V, and fit a PU7. Trust me, sonically, it will blow the SME into the weeds and in turn offer greater SPPV, so only entertain an SME V if you're seduced by the badge!

    It was also a pleasure meeting Brian again, who's always great to chat to, and of course meeting Tony (wee tee cee) for the first time, who's a total hoot and makes my dirty mind (and scatological sense of humour) seem like that of a choir boy's in comparison!!

    It was also superb visiting Tony separately and hearing his own (very different system from Gaz's), and meeting his good lady, Louise. Tony's system is the epitome of K.I.S.S, powered by battery instead of the mains, which gives it a totally effortless, clean, grain-free sound - and one, which very importantly for me, gets right to the heart of the music, conveying all of its emotion in true goose bump-rendering fashion!

    I could've honestly sat a listened to choons on it all day, as its essential musical character, cohesion, and style of music-making (scale and bass heft aside) reminded me very much of my own system at home. As such, I feel that Tony should be praised for his efforts, considering how little he's spent on his system, but what he's spent has been spent very wisely indeed. Clearly, ma man, there's fuck all wrang wi yer lugs!

    Anyway, thanks again to you guys for hosting a couple of daftees (Snapper and I), and I look forward to another sesh next time I pop up to Scotland, when hopefully wicrackpot and Ali will be able to attend. Cheers lads, nice one! This is what AoS is all about

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Reissue, Ali. I bought my copy in Monorail in Glasgow. However, you can order it online at Juno: http://www.juno.co.uk/products/blues...FcgSwwodzGIApw It's an absolute MUST (and a bargain at £17.99) if you're a jazz music fan, and also wish to hear what vinyl replay is capable of with a genuinely audiophile all-analogue recording, which shows off fully what the latter is capable of, sonically.

    Played on a top-notch T/T, it blows any (fucked about with) digital recording of this album into the weeds [and I know because I've also got it on CD and as a file on my NAS]!!

    The whole album on YouTube:



    Marco.
    Thanks mate. I see there is a different 45rpm pressing, mastered from the original tapes via valve kit which might be worth a punt. 45 quid though..
    “Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio”

    Hunter S Thompson

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    No worries. However, given how UTTERLY STUNNING the recording I've recommended sounds, I'm not sure that I'd bother, as it's very difficult to imagine how it could be bettered.

    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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    Really enjoyed having two JM fanboys over. Snappers knowledge and insight was majik.....next time yer up give me notice, Lou does a killer coffee and walnut cake. Meatballs and a bit of italian red might also be prudent!!!

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    Yay - now yer talkin' ma lingo, ma man! We'll defo do that, and leave the vino to me

    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!!!


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    yer on....

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    Thanks Marco,
    glad you and Snapper enjoyed yerselves, it was a 'rer 'ter.
    Great to meet you too mate, and sorry I kept you guys waiting for me getting back from the shop!

    Really enjoyed sitting down and listening to vinyl, really enjoyed your Duke LP.
    Arm upgrade...I was kinda swayed by the SME badge if I was honest, though now having read up on it I'd go second hand as I dont fancy buying a new arm that price and needing to get it rewired by Johnny to get it sounding as good as it can!

    PU7, Audio Note One rewired with Ikeda wire or 2nd hand V rewired by Johnny.
    Be nearer end of the year so have time to decide...might even just call it done and enjoy my records?

    Another sesh at mine when the 300B Set power amps in place, as you say the Mini-T is very good but the valve jobbie will be something else altogether.
    hopefully we can sort out something that ties in with a visit to the rellies.
    Its good fun and what its all about.


    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Rather late to this thread, folks! Been quite busy catching up with a few things since returning from Scotland, so not much time for posting

    I'd just like to say thanks to Gaz for hosting a great little get together, and it was nice meeting you at long last! You've got a superb sounding system, mate, which (as good as the Mini T's are) is only destined to get better with the arrival of Nick's 300B box of thermionic lurveliness.... Can't wait to find out how that one goes!

    Your Gyrodec is undoubtedly one of the best I've heard (no doubt in part due to having been set up by Johnny), and also one of the best belt-drive T/T's I've had the pleasure of listening to. All the respective 'bits' you've assembled simply serve to demonstrate synergy in action, so if you have plans to further upgrade your T/T, make sure not to disturb that synergy.

    If I were you, I'd forget all about an SME V, and fit a PU7. Trust me, sonically, it will blow the SME into the weeds and in turn offer greater SPPV, so only entertain an SME V if you're seduced by the badge!

    It was also a pleasure meeting Brian again, who's always great to chat to, and of course meeting Tony (wee tee cee) for the first time, who's a total hoot and makes my dirty mind (and scatological sense of humour) seem like that of a choir boy's in comparison!!

    It was also superb visiting Tony separately and hearing his own (very different system from Gaz's), and meeting his good lady, Louise. Tony's system is the epitome of K.I.S.S, powered by battery instead of the mains, which gives it a totally effortless, clean, grain-free sound - and one, which very importantly for me, gets right to the heart of the music, conveying all of its emotion in true goose bump-rendering fashion!

    I could've honestly sat a listened to choons on it all day, as its essential musical character, cohesion, and style of music-making (scale and bass heft aside) reminded me very much of my own system at home. As such, I feel that Tony should be praised for his efforts, considering how little he's spent on his system, but what he's spent has been spent very wisely indeed. Clearly, ma man, there's fuck all wrang wi yer lugs!

    Anyway, thanks again to you guys for hosting a couple of daftees (Snapper and I), and I look forward to another sesh next time I pop up to Scotland, when hopefully wicrackpot and Ali will be able to attend. Cheers lads, nice one! This is what AoS is all about

    Marco.
    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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