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Location: South Wales
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Me too,
Which is why I produced the Soul Power amps.Originally Posted by Arkless Electronics
Hybrid gear is something I'm rather keen on in factAlthough the likes of no feedback SET's would be something I wouldn't give house room to in my own system, I do still repair such things
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Its now a conspiracy theory to believe that the Immune system is capable of doing the job it was designed to do.
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
No worries, mate - and noted!Well said there Marco
As I've noticed some confusion over this in recent weeks, I just wanted to add that I DO deal with valved equipment as well as SS, both in terms of servicing, rebuilds and manufacturing. Hybrid gear is something I'm rather keen on in fact
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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Location: Cheltenham
Posts: 982
I'm Charlie.
More British Cottage Industries, which I enjoy in my system
Hadcock - now run by George's son, Charles
Decca London cartridges - John Wright
TRON amplifiers - Graham Tricker
All tiny operations with a worldwide following
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Location: Warrington
Posts: 3,451
I'm Neil.
Looking at my kit list, the following is cottage industry: preamp, amp, DAC, cables, rack, speakers. I support it because it offers much greater SPPV and a lack of meddling from marketers and accountants. Also, it's nice to have something a bit different... Ultimately though, it's all about sound for me I don't ever have people around to show my kit to. :P
Mana Acoustics Racks / Bright Star IsoNodes Decoupling >> Allo DigiOne Player >> Pedja Rogic's Audial Model S DAC + Pioneer PL-71 turntable / Vista Audio phono-1 mk II / Denon PCL-5 headshell / Reson Reca >> LFD DLS >> LFD PA2M (SE) >> Royd RR3s.
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Location: Essex
Posts: 44
I'm Thiha.
[QUOTE=Yomanze Ultimately though, it's all about sound for me I don't ever have people around to show my kit to. :P[/QUOTE]
Me too.
The only person I ever have around to listen to my kit is my father and that's because he got me into this whole hifi thing in the first place. Most kids spend their school holidays messing around with their mates.....I just visited one hifi shop after another with my father.
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