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  1. #1
    Join Date: May 2011

    Location: Malmo, Sweden

    Posts: 1
    I'm Russell.

    Default Hello everybody!

    Hi all, thanks for having me onboard. I'm a sound enthusiast via music listening (headphones and hifi). Well I do dabble in some experimental electronic music production via Ableton Studio when I can I'm into bang for buck components I guess. I've got a bunch of rotating components and systems, mostly bought second hand. Audio Note (UK) AN-J spx speakers, Tannoy Mercury 20's, Snell Type E, Edison 60 valve amp, a little SET from Bulgaria, Onix OA20 w phono stage, NAD 3020, technics 1210's (for DJ'ing house and techno), Luxman PD 284 turntable, Rega Planar 2, Musical Fidelity V-LPSii, and a bunch of other stuff up in the attic I'm running an old CD transport thru an Arcam rDac- which I would like to upgrade to the newer one- I've been happy with the sound. I have also an ODAC which does a fine job I think, but I haven't heard many DACS to be fair.
    I just picked up Fiio X3ii portable audio player/DAC for travel. I also have Sennheiser HD 650 (for studio), Audio Technica esw9 (fun travel), and I've got on my wish list Oppo PM3 for deep, relaxing quiet times on the sofa. Much harder to find those times these days with 2 young kids running around, but golly, those times have become even more valuable- mostly late at night.
    I've found some of these items in charity/ op shops (like the tannoy speakers I got for just a few dollars in mint condition behind the cloth grills) and some I have bought on the second hand market. Some- like the SET, came from the designer, and the Edison 60 from a valve amp technician who knew its original designer.
    All that being said, I also enjoy low-fi sound aswell, background radio, grainy pops and crackles, bass thumping festival rigs.
    I'm all in with my gear now, any changes and additions will have to be swapped out or sold in from now on.....
    Oh music, folk, rock, indie, jazz, underground techno, soundtrack, anything the artists have poured themselves into, well recorded stuff with bad voices, great voices with poor mastering, classics, so long as it is not stamped with advertising all over it.
    I hope I've done my first post correctly- look forward to being here.

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    Join Date: Feb 2013

    Location: W Lothian

    Posts: 99,005
    I'm Grant.

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    Hi Russell. Welcome to AoS. Nice intro, hope you enjoy the forum
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
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    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

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  3. #3
    Join Date: Apr 2015

    Location: Central Virginia

    Posts: 1,736
    I'm Russell.

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    Glad to have another Russell around! Sounds like you bring a lot of knowledge to the forum! Enjoy


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    Join Date: Jan 2017

    Location: Canada

    Posts: 11
    I'm Keith.

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    Love your gear Russ.
    Hope to see some pics soon :-)

  5. #5
    Join Date: Aug 2009

    Location: Staffordshire, England

    Posts: 37,932
    I'm Martin.

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    Hi Russ

    Great intro. Welcome to the forum.
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

  6. #6
    Join Date: Apr 2012

    Location: N E Kent

    Posts: 51,625
    I'm Geoff.

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    Hello Russell. Welcome to AOS.

    Looks like you're enjoying yourself with your collection of equipment. Very similar to what many here also do, me included.

    You could start a blog here, showing what you're using each time you have a change round.


    Enjoy the forum,
    Geoff.
    It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!

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