daniel.mark
08-07-2011, 11:57
Just to introduce myself,
I'm a Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner living in the East of England with my English wife (also a Nurse), but originally come from Southern California. Been about this Earth a bit, now older and more settled. First hi end hi-fi I heard was when I went round to the home of a new friend in high school who had moved to LA from NY. His older brother had a Macintosh integrated that was playing FM over some homemade horn speakers and I was blown away.
Likes: well-built small-power amplification, sensitive speakers, well-recorded vinyl, mostly old Jazz, old rock, some classical and blues, and a taste of the esoteric.
System: Garrard 301 Loricraft, SME 3009 with two cartridges on easily swapped headshells, Sumiko Pearwood and Shelter 501 Mono. Silver wire into Shindo Masseto preamplifier, Shindo interconnects to First Watt F3 amp, TARA Labs speaker cables (have others too), speakers are Quasar IIs, a design of Bert Doppenberg from BD-Design in Netherlands, using a solid silver coiled Lowther P5 without the nasty "Hi Ferric" dope, on top, BD-design 15" bass speakers on bottom with sub-amp in crossover, open baffle made of several layers of Spruce plywood sandwiched together in a vertical plinth a bit like that object from 2001 Space odessy except Spruce coloured and not black, the base elevated on cones. I do have a two box CD transport/Dac built by Abba Hussein of Orelle before he went bust, works ok when I want to listen to CDs (not that often actually).
Thats me, daniel.mark
I'm a Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner living in the East of England with my English wife (also a Nurse), but originally come from Southern California. Been about this Earth a bit, now older and more settled. First hi end hi-fi I heard was when I went round to the home of a new friend in high school who had moved to LA from NY. His older brother had a Macintosh integrated that was playing FM over some homemade horn speakers and I was blown away.
Likes: well-built small-power amplification, sensitive speakers, well-recorded vinyl, mostly old Jazz, old rock, some classical and blues, and a taste of the esoteric.
System: Garrard 301 Loricraft, SME 3009 with two cartridges on easily swapped headshells, Sumiko Pearwood and Shelter 501 Mono. Silver wire into Shindo Masseto preamplifier, Shindo interconnects to First Watt F3 amp, TARA Labs speaker cables (have others too), speakers are Quasar IIs, a design of Bert Doppenberg from BD-Design in Netherlands, using a solid silver coiled Lowther P5 without the nasty "Hi Ferric" dope, on top, BD-design 15" bass speakers on bottom with sub-amp in crossover, open baffle made of several layers of Spruce plywood sandwiched together in a vertical plinth a bit like that object from 2001 Space odessy except Spruce coloured and not black, the base elevated on cones. I do have a two box CD transport/Dac built by Abba Hussein of Orelle before he went bust, works ok when I want to listen to CDs (not that often actually).
Thats me, daniel.mark