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Dali Zensor3
Chord Epic Twin
Audiolab8200cdq
Cambridge cxa80
New Member
Location: Havant
Posts: 21
I'm Richard.
My hifi build so far
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Dali Zensor3
Chord Epic Twin
Audiolab8200cdq
Cambridge cxa80
New Member
Location: Havant
Posts: 21
I'm Richard.
Like all music accept opera! My next plans are a decent phono stage and turntable for my vinyl collection
Senior Member
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside.
Posts: 1,328
I'm Ben.
Very tidy looking system there Richard, plenty of people here can offer advice on starting out on your turntable journey.
Technics SL1210 with
SME IV Arm & AT OC9XML,
Firebottle modded Tron Convergence Phono Stage,
Bluesound Node 2i, Technics SL DZ 1200 CD
Denon PMA1700ne amp
Yamaha NS1000M Speakers.
Senior Member
Location: South Beds, UK
Posts: 1,950
I'm Mike.
Nice looking system.
My first piece of upgrade advice is to put a shirt on when taking pics of shiny surfaces
Less bling, more integrity ©Spenagio
New Member
Location: Havant
Posts: 21
I'm Richard.
Ahha well spotted there and thanks. Sorry it's blurred lol. I can just see the dog in the background
Senior Member
Location: Glasgowshire
Posts: 9,663
I'm Gary.
Whats the acoustic Richard...cant beat a guitar hung on the wall (have one myself!)
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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