They look great. In fact your whole system looks fantastic.
That red rug wants taking out and burning though
They look great. In fact your whole system looks fantastic.
That red rug wants taking out and burning though
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Technics SP10 mk2
Jan Allaerts MC 1 Boron mk1 cart
Miyajima Shilabe cart
Hashimoto HM-X SUT
Siggwan (gimballed not unipivot) Cocobola 12"
Aurorasound Vida LCR Phonostage
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Dave Slagle Autoformer Volume Controller
Cary 805c SET amps
Audio Note ANe-SPX speakers
Townshend Isolda speaker cables
Cardas Golden Presence interconnects
Is this better?
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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Love all your kit, Adrian, and I rate your speakers highly, as a good friend of mine and amplifier designer uses the very same. The only thing I can't get on with, and it's a personal taste thing, is that 'red mahogany' wood finish, as I'm more of an (light/medium) oak, or black kind of guy.
Don't mind the rug though, as it fits in with the rest of the decor!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Technics SP10 mk2
Jan Allaerts MC 1 Boron mk1 cart
Miyajima Shilabe cart
Hashimoto HM-X SUT
Siggwan (gimballed not unipivot) Cocobola 12"
Aurorasound Vida LCR Phonostage
The Truth linestage
Dave Slagle Autoformer Volume Controller
Cary 805c SET amps
Audio Note ANe-SPX speakers
Townshend Isolda speaker cables
Cardas Golden Presence interconnects
Haters gonna hate, as they say.
I reckon I could catch you out, though. I think if I placed a pair of Kingdom Royals behind a pair of curtains that were reasonably acoustically transparent, but not visually so, with Thrax amps and an MSB DAC, you'd like it.
Why? Because that combo sounds great and quite uncoloured in a big room i.e. quite un-vintage-Tannoy like. And indeed unlike the Prestige range or anywhere near Westminster Royal like (which I have always hated).
VFM is totally out of the window for that system but that isn't the point.
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I haven't heard all Tannoy candidates.
I recall a smallish pair of Edens (?) at the Scalford Show a few years back that seemed surprisingly enjoyable for the few minutes I was in the room.
And I managed about 4 hours with Tannoy 10 or 12" HPD in Lancaster cabs I was kindly loaned for my Scalford dem room one year before deep loathing started to set in.
So hoo nose?
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I believe it's the Tannoy DC midrange 'honk' (and associated coloration), and which to his ears impacts so adversely on the music he likes, that's the reason for Jerry's hatred of Tannoys.
I can hear *exactly* what he means, and I'm afraid that although it can be tamed to some extent (and exists more in some models than others), it can never be cured, as it's inherent in the DC/horn-tweeter design, thus part of its sonic signature.
It doesn't bother me at all, as for me speakers, more than anything else, are all about choosing your compromises [as none are perfect], and to my ears, the sonic advantages of big Tannoy DCs vastly out way the negatives. I can certainly live with that type of coloration/limitation more than I can with that of some OBs or electrostatics...
However, each to his or her own. It would be a boring world if we all liked the same things!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Although I hate to say it - Marco is a remarkably insightful guy.
Yup, that honk stands between me and the music like the old Berlin Wall, barbed wire and machine gun towers included!
Others don't seem to even hear it, which I find distinctly strange.
Marco does hear it, but doesn't mind - which leaves me far happier!
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