Arrived, set up .... and sounding pretty damn fabulous, despite the mishmash of power valve makes!!
Thanks Mike and Tony
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Arrived, set up .... and sounding pretty damn fabulous, despite the mishmash of power valve makes!!
Thanks Mike and Tony
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Looks good Jerry. How are you finding the little nobsound amp? Might give one a try.
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Great news Jerry,
I always worry about the courier playing football with the boxes en route.
I will be interested to read your findings and whether you put nicer tubes in to get more out of them.
The sovteks hardly have any hours on them so may need some bedding in.
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Is that one of the ring dac Arcam cdps? I've been thinking of trying one to reduce the box count in my new cabinet.
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Heard these amps in my system when Tony brought them over for a listen.
Sounds very good, a great example of valves done right.
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
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Im delighted they have gone to a good home.
I reckon with some nice tubes they could be rather special.....