SP10
15-05-2009, 01:08
The last guy to introduce himself is from North Northumberland and I'm just up the road near Kelso!
I am basically an analogue person, but have just got hold of a Chinese evaluation DAC and a JVC boombox to modify. The DAC I have tried with my Perreaux Amps (rather old but still excellent). I will try to mod it (the DAC) but those SMD yokes are hard to shift!
My main system is a very heavily modded Technics SP10 Mk 11P in - at present - an obsidian plinth, Reworked Zeta or homebrew solid Carbon (not C fibre) unipivot. The business end is an exceptionally early Kondo Audionote Io working through a Tx into either a Precision Fidelity C7A (again modded) into a 211/VT4c set. I also have a Yamamura prototype pre and power current amp set-up, but that is only for single driver speakers.
My speakers are a pair of lightly modded Impulose H2 horns.....these are great.
All cables are Yamamura.
My room is 31' x 15' x 10'6" - plenty of room. And only the speakers are at present in that room. The rest is in an adjoining room. We have been here only a short time, but it is the best room I have had for sound.
Next project is a pair of Saba+Altec based open baffle speakers. (The most haunting memory I have of sound was several years ago when I was a guest of Be Yamamura in Italy. He was using his famous air-float (TOTAL AIR BEARING) all carbon turntable with a fully developed set of his own amps and big ob speakers withy single heavily modded (rice paper cones etc) LOwther PMs. It was pure illusion. Simply beyond description. If I can get some of the way toward that sound I will have succeeded!;)
I am basically an analogue person, but have just got hold of a Chinese evaluation DAC and a JVC boombox to modify. The DAC I have tried with my Perreaux Amps (rather old but still excellent). I will try to mod it (the DAC) but those SMD yokes are hard to shift!
My main system is a very heavily modded Technics SP10 Mk 11P in - at present - an obsidian plinth, Reworked Zeta or homebrew solid Carbon (not C fibre) unipivot. The business end is an exceptionally early Kondo Audionote Io working through a Tx into either a Precision Fidelity C7A (again modded) into a 211/VT4c set. I also have a Yamamura prototype pre and power current amp set-up, but that is only for single driver speakers.
My speakers are a pair of lightly modded Impulose H2 horns.....these are great.
All cables are Yamamura.
My room is 31' x 15' x 10'6" - plenty of room. And only the speakers are at present in that room. The rest is in an adjoining room. We have been here only a short time, but it is the best room I have had for sound.
Next project is a pair of Saba+Altec based open baffle speakers. (The most haunting memory I have of sound was several years ago when I was a guest of Be Yamamura in Italy. He was using his famous air-float (TOTAL AIR BEARING) all carbon turntable with a fully developed set of his own amps and big ob speakers withy single heavily modded (rice paper cones etc) LOwther PMs. It was pure illusion. Simply beyond description. If I can get some of the way toward that sound I will have succeeded!;)