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    Join Date: Apr 2011

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    My System:
    Amplification - Sansui AU-alpha 707 DR
    Turntable - Technics SP10 MK2-Technics EPA-250 Tonearm-Yannis Tome 423.5Plus tonearm cable-Eichmann KLEI Absolute Harmony plugs.
    Ortofon Cadenza Black moving coil cartridge-Fritz Gyger S re-tip. Panzerholz plinth.

    CDP - Pioneer PD-91
    Speakers - Spendor D7 on Soundcare SuperSpikes
    QED Silver Spiral speaker cable-airloc banana plugs
    Mains - Ultra Pure silver plated un-switched socket-Missing link EPS 500 silver plated plugs-Hi-Fi Tuning gold plated silver ceramic 13 amp fuses

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    That's a great setup mate. That Sansui looks the business. I'd love a Cadenza black. I bet that's a very transparent system.

    Sent from my EVA-L09 using Tapatalk

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    Lovely stuff you've got there, that 919 is pornographic. I'm really interested in getting a Cadenza black when finances permit, never heard one but read great things about it.
    Turntable
    Toshiba SR-370/Mission 774/Van Damme cable with MS Starline plugs/Ortofon Quintet Black
    CD
    Cambridge CXC transport/modified Musical Fidelity X-DAC/modified Musical Fidelity X-10 V3 tube buffer
    Network Player
    Cambridge NP30
    Amplifier
    Denon HA-500 head amp/Nakamichi CA-5E pre-amp/Chinese passive RVC/Proton AA-1150 DMC power amp
    Speakers
    Mordaunt Short Signifer on original factory stands
    Cables
    Mogami with Rean Neutrik plugs/NVA LS5
    Headphones
    Sennheiser HD600/Sennheiser HD650/Koss Pro4 AA

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    Very nice indeed.
    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.

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    Sweet.

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    Default NEW WINE IN THE RACK - ALPHA Sansui AU-α 707 DR

    I managed to bag this new minty mega rare 230/240v UK Beauty.

    I'm led to believe there where only ever three UK / Euro spec models imported into the UK.

    Built like a tank, 22.5kg's It is gorgeous in the flesh and the sound is absolutely pure hi-fidelity to my ears - It does not impart anything of itself, cover or gloss over other than laying everything in the recording / music bare, and I mean everything -

    Detailed, neutral, every nuance, micro macro detail revealed - warts n all, seperation of all the recorded parts, textures, timbres, vocals, horns, drums, all instruments sound real !

    Power delivery is effortless - dual mono construction, 130 wpc @ 8 ohms and damping factor of 150

    To coin an old cliche - Re-discovering the most familar of albums............

    I've heard things I never knew where there in terms of how a vocalist tails of a phrase and more startling is the way some rythms start or pause, as I say different to what I've heard a thousand times before - this thing reveals how it really was laid down and it's a shock first time it happens

    Cant get enough it, all I'm doing and want to do is get the set fired up and play tunes - which has to be testimony itself and I take my hat off to Sansui !

    To say I'm chuffed to bits to have bagged this beauty / beast is an understatement.

    http://www.audioscope.net/sansui-aua...dr-p-1660.html

    http://www.hifi-studio.de/hifi-klass...alpha707DR.htm

    https://www.whathifi.com/forum/hi-fi...7-dr-amplifier

    https://sansui1944.websitetoolbox.co...-707dr-1062087


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    My System:
    Amplification - Sansui AU-alpha 707 DR
    Turntable - Technics SP10 MK2-Technics EPA-250 Tonearm-Yannis Tome 423.5Plus tonearm cable-Eichmann KLEI Absolute Harmony plugs.
    Ortofon Cadenza Black moving coil cartridge-Fritz Gyger S re-tip. Panzerholz plinth.

    CDP - Pioneer PD-91
    Speakers - Spendor D7 on Soundcare SuperSpikes
    QED Silver Spiral speaker cable-airloc banana plugs
    Mains - Ultra Pure silver plated un-switched socket-Missing link EPS 500 silver plated plugs-Hi-Fi Tuning gold plated silver ceramic 13 amp fuses

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    That looks really good Rob, you must be well chuffed, well done buddy.

    Nigel

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    Quote Originally Posted by vinylspinner View Post
    That looks really good Rob, you must be well chuffed, well done buddy.

    Nigel
    Cheers Nigel,

    It's looks are a bonus for sure but it's how this thing sounds or doesnt if you know what I mean that is amazing. It just lets the music and everything on the record come through.

    Combined with the Cadenza B, it is untold detail and not just that, it's the info about the detail and whole damn recording, textures, timbre, breaths, all the little deeep down nuances, timing and structure of the ryhthm - everything - if it's in those grooves it comes through in all it's glory. The separate parts have their own characteristic / texture and I've not experienced that to this degree.

    You'll hear the difference from one tom hit to the other, rim shots are now quite woody sounding or knock /cuff as a rim shot does in real life.

    On some recordings I've loved for decades I now hear that the snare is hit pretty hard / harder than I've ever heard before and / or very firmly, or with more of a pronouced smack.

    The fact I'm still up says it all really. This is a serious piece of kit no question......
    My System:
    Amplification - Sansui AU-alpha 707 DR
    Turntable - Technics SP10 MK2-Technics EPA-250 Tonearm-Yannis Tome 423.5Plus tonearm cable-Eichmann KLEI Absolute Harmony plugs.
    Ortofon Cadenza Black moving coil cartridge-Fritz Gyger S re-tip. Panzerholz plinth.

    CDP - Pioneer PD-91
    Speakers - Spendor D7 on Soundcare SuperSpikes
    QED Silver Spiral speaker cable-airloc banana plugs
    Mains - Ultra Pure silver plated un-switched socket-Missing link EPS 500 silver plated plugs-Hi-Fi Tuning gold plated silver ceramic 13 amp fuses

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    Join Date: Oct 2010

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    Must say that you have put together a great system, would love to hear it sometime.
    Enjoy the music Robert.

    Nigel

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