Scottish Mafia get together Sun 25th October
Starting a thread here to cover tomorrow's get together.
Main attraction (apart from myself ) is the new 300B SET power amp, designed and built by Nick Gorham, Lurcher on this forum. Only 50 hours or so on the amp so lots of bedding in to do, but sounding mighty fine as is.
8 watts of SET valveyness, designed pretty much around my Edingdale speakers so a great match, which is kinda vital with a low powered SET amp.
Be taking it down to NEBO so be good to let the Guys there hear it, it'll be in good company as theres some pretty meaty kit down there.
Marco will be blowing in from Wrexham, and he'll be bringing his LDR Pre and the Goldpoint Passive too.
Be great to hear the 300B power amp with different Pre-amps.
Good selection of music, banter and of course cakes as the usual entrance fee.
Pics to follow....
Last edited by Gazjam; 24-10-2015 at 19:26.
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