Hello all I'm jake !

[Jakepowell1991]

Hello everyone !

What a wonderful community you guys and girls seem to have ! If I may I would like to be a part .

My name is jake and I am a 26 year old working in London in the film industry (camera department- I'm a clapper loader , that means I clap two peices of wood together for a living basically).

I have just recently gotten into hifi , I have always loved music .
I am starting to peice together a high quality yet value proposition 2nd hand system to suit my eclectic tastes , somewhat limited space and budget constrained but quality concern.

Radiohead to goldie , unkle to roots manouva , led zeppelin to faithless ....

I have a quad 303 on the way with some castle acoustic Trent ii bookshelfs , all In £280 just after a pre amp I'm thinking either a croft or go a passive route with a light speed attenuator or nelson pass b1 ??? Any thoughts ?
A lenco l75 caught my eye as a turntable or perhaps a rega p3 / p25 . And a chord mojo musical fidelity v90 or Schitt multibit bitfrost will likely be my dac to handle the digital side .

I did listen to some spendor bc1 (among many others ) and absolutely fell in love . But damn they are big for my house .

I hope this isn't long winded and gives you guys something interesting regarding my departure point and introduction .

Hello everyone !


Jake

[struth]

Not at all Jake, good intro. Welcome aboard and sure the community can assist you in your search. Good to hear your in the film buisness. Great stuff and the sky is the limit.

[walpurgis]

Hi Jake. Welcome to AOS.

There are lots of people here who can give you opinions on the equipment you mention.

There's plenty going on, so feel free to get involved and chat with the members.


Enjoy the forum,
Geoff.

[Jakepowell1991]

So I have gone from a shit Denon integrated with q acoustics from a iPhone headphone jack playing streamed mp3

To....3581C307-7A7C-49C7-9D8D-0943C7794C66.jpg8BF988DE-2C29-4CCC-826B-D307BDFDDE72.jpg9D71B2A1-936F-41CB-84A4-A88BCABBCC9A.jpg

A raspberry pi3 with allo Kali reclocker and piano 2.1 dac fed with Qobuz 16bit 44.1khz ? (CD quality) streamed material feeding into a tisbury passive pre controlling a quad 303 all ejected into my room via castle Trent II’s ....

And I have to say the difference is astounding .

Now I’m looking to you guys to help finness ! Ive played around with speaker position and I think this is best I can find on the convenience of the bookshelf. I train the speakers upside down to get the tweeters to listening level when I’m seated but to my ear it got riff of any semblance of lower registers.... they are toed in somewhat which helped a bit to my ear. Problem is I sit and stand up and very drastically varying levels as my lovely sofa is very low and I’m fidgety .

Anything else I can do ?
Stands? Power cables help ? Speaker cables? Interconnects? Any sugestions?

Jake