Greetings from WI
Hello all, I've been lurking on here for a few months but just realized I never made an intro post! I'm from the snowy land of Wisconsin, and have a passion for a wide variety of music and audio gear. Generally I prefer listening to Drum n Bass, happy hardcore, house, and some older hardstyle and dubstep tracks I have on vinyl, stretching over into arena rock and all the way into death metal. There's also a soft spot in my heart for some crappy pop music from time to time, and several other genres in between.
As far as gear goes, I started out collecting vintage gear after I started doing repairs on my dad's old Sansui (forgotten the model unfortunately) and really enjoying the hobby. I currently have 2 Shure SR105B power amplifiers that I am in the process of recapping and upgrading the connections which will be used to power a pair of Polk TSx330s that I have in the living room. These amps will be fed from a RadioShack 15ch EQ that will also be overhauled to work as a preamp until I can purchase the one I'm currently saving for. In place of the Shure amps at the moment, I have a Yamaha RXV475 powering everything and working for my Raspberry Pi media center as a DAC via HDMI while I build my GPIO DAC. The living room also has my Marantz SD6000 tape deck for some of the tracks I only have on tape at the moment.
I also have a pair of Pioneer CS-A31 speakers and a pair of Polk TSi100 bookshelf speakers that will be powered by a Sansui G5700 once it also finishes undergoing its recap (I have been in Texas for almost 2 months for work so I'm a bit behind on my projects lol) that gets its signal from either my computer via an Asus Xonar Essence STX, or from my Cambridge 651P that is connected to my WIP SL1210MK2.
The SL1210 I got on eBay from a pawn shop that bought it off a DJ, since I planned on modding the deck anyways and it was a good price. Unfortunately the tonearm was shot when I received the deck, so I knew right off the bat I would "have to mod it." As it sits, I currently have a Jelco SA750DB tonearm in the box right next to the deck as well as a TTWAudio SuperVTA tonearm base. I have an order in with Speedy Steve for an ebony armboard for the tonearm, I have caps, diodes, resistors, etc on order to make the external PSU for the deck, and I will be ordering either an Oyaide tonearm cable or the Yannis Tome tonearm cable with the Pure Harmony Silver RCA connectors. As far as a cartridge goes, I am debating between saving for a Soundsmith Gold Denon DL103, or just getting a vanilla DL103 and waiting for a bit so I can stop waiting and start jamming!
Future mods for the deck include Isonoe feet, custom Cherry or Maple enclosure with a sandbox beneath coupled with Mapleshade brass triplepoints, possibly a DIN/headshell removal/tonearm rewire and a nicer cartridge. I also would like to replace all the regulators with the Paul Hynes ones once I get a good feel for the deck's "stage 1 mods" sound signature. Being that the Denon cartridge is a lower output than my pre, I will also have to upgrade that in the near future as well.
I plan on replacing the Polks in my living room with either a pair of Polk LSiM707s, Revel F206s, or saving for a pair of Vandersteens Treos if the difference will really be worth the extra cash. As far as the office system goes, I don't really have any other plans other than replacing/complimenting the Sansui with a HK Citation II amp, as I really would like to have a valve setup to "get away" from all the solid state sometimes.
Sorry for the wall of text; TLDR I have a modded SL1210, a Marantz SD6000, 2 Shure SR105B powering a pair of Polk TSX330, and a Sansui G5700 powering 2 Polk TSi100 and 2 Pioneer CSA31Looking forward to being a part of this community!
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