Hi All

[shills]

Hello,

My name is Steve

System is:

Rega planar 2 with Goldring 1012 cart
Marantz CD63 KI Sig, Trichord clock + PSu upgrade
Denon TU800 tuner - connected to Ron Smith Galaxy aerial

Naim NAC72, with Avondale 821 boards
Powered by "self built" Avondale PSu

"Self built" Power Amp
Bolt Down Naim 160 case, filled with 2x NCC200 boards
and 2X Avondale cap6 modules.
Powered by separate "self built" Avondale PSu,

Dynaudio 72SE speakers
Black link cable.


Regards,

Steve.

[moonshiner]

Hi Shills,

roughly how long did it take you to do your self builds?

cheers

james :)

[shills]

Hi James,

No long at all, the Avondale stuff was all purchased as pre-constructed modules, they just needed wiring together.
So most of the work was drilling new mounting holes in the cases.
I suppose at a rough guess the pre-amp power supply to a couple of evenings, that included time waiting for the Matt black paint finish to dry.
The Power amp combo took about a week of evenings in total.

I moved gradualy from running a NAC 32.5 powered by the original NAP 160.
To 32.5 with it's own PSu - quite a good improvement.
To NAC 72 with the PSU and the original NAP 160 - did not notice much improvement.
To ripping guts out of NAP 160 and building the Avondale Power amp with it's own PSU - massive leap in enjoyment. That baby realy gets the best out of the Dynaudio's. Superb tight bass and stunning control, whereas the old Naim was very flabby.
Finally got the 821 boards for the NAC 72 - this also was a good choice, seemed to add yet another level of detail to everything.

Cheers,

Steve.

[The Grand Wazoo]

Hi Steve.
Welcome to AoS. That's a brave choice of user name there!
What sort of music do you like to play?

[archiesdad]

Howdy and welcome.