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Location: Bristol
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I'm Sean.
My budget vintage (mostly) system
after spending far too much time playing around with various bits and pieces I kept picking up and playing very little music over the last couple of months I think I am happy with the sound and look of this budget system. Now planning on concentrating on cleaning and playing my old vinyl.
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I'm Grant.
looks great Sean; especially the amp and TT... my bro has a unit that looks pretty similar to that for his stereo.
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I'm nigel.
sansui 222 mk 2....nice!!
I think the left speaker could benefit from being pulled away from the wall though...bass boom ahoy.
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Location: Bristol
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I'm Sean.
I'll try moving the speaker further from the wall, haven't played with placement at all yet. It's all a bit squashed up to the left, it's a garden room and the tv was placed there to keep it in the shade before I had blinds and I ought to move it more centrally but I've been too lazy. I've kept the 5.1 system separate so the speaker doesn't need to be left of the tv.
I was trying to hide the speaker because the woofer doesn't match!
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Location: Glasgowshire
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I'm Gary.
Love the aesthetic of it, have to admit I'm always swayed by a tape deck with VU meters..
What was it I had before..Marantz SD1015 I think?
http://www.hifi-wiki.de/images/8/84/IMG_6485.JPG
There's something about vintage kit that is a bit special.
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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Location: Bristol
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I'm Sean.
yes I really like the look of it but I think I would be tempted to swap the tape deck for a Pioneer CT-F2121 if I can find one cheap, not simply because it is a Pioneer but because the cylinder switches for play etc. better match the amp.
http://www.pioneer-vintage.de/images/ct7a.jpg
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Location: Glasgowshire
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I'm Gary.
That's retrotastic!
As I said, there's a "different" aesthetic about vintage kit..and its gorgeous imo.
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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Location: Dundee, Scotland
Posts: 107
I'm Gordon.
Nice gear! Are those speakers made by Castle?
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Location: Bristol
Posts: 371
I'm Sean.
thanks, yes they are Castle Clyde's. The left one looks as though the woofer has been replaced. It also had a couple of fine slits in the rubber which I have glued at the moment with some glue from a previous refoam project and it sounds good to me but I may try changing the rubber at some point.
I'm trying to stop buying gear but this week I picked up a p12d turntable cheap with a view to having a full pioneer set up but having had it delivered on Friday I don't think it looks as good as the Sansui although it does sound good. I also couldn't resist a Pioneer SA 506 amp for a £5 on gumtree yesterday. It was untested but it has power vu meters for left and right channels and I thought it might match better with the tape and tuner which have meters. Seems to work fine except one of the meter lights doesn't work (I was talked through a similar repair on the tape deck by Barbarian on here so will give repairing this a go). Seeing it next to the SA7300 I don't think it looks as good, but will play with it with the turntable for a while - might just need to pick up some more speakers for them after just selling some perfectly good Kef's as I've connected the Castles at the moment.
Sean
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