Reviving vinyl through a Temple Audio T amp.

[tpbholm]

Hello all. My name's Trevor. I live in South West Scotland in the middle of nowhere, which gives me the advantage of being able to play my music as loud as I want to. There's no-one nearby to disturb except sheep...
I have 3 systems. In the lounge I have a Sonos Connect powered by a Fatman itube integrated amplifier and playing through a pair of B & W 685 speakers on Alphason stands. It's source is a Western Digital 2TB NAS. Overall I'm reasonably happy with this system. It sounds good and I like the easy access to pretty much all my music. As a rule I copy all new CD's to the NAS and then put them away.
I also have a small home recording studio powered by an iMac and a 13" Macbook Pro through a Focuswrite Forte audio interface. This system uses KRK Rokit 6 G2 Active monitors and KRK Rolkit 10S active sub. For playback of recordings to check the mix, I have a Sonos Play:1 and Pro-ject CD Box DS.
A couple of years ago I bought an Ion LP Dock USB turntable to begin to digitise my vinyl collection. Pretty quickly I realised that I wasn't going to be able to do this to a quality which was satisfactory and turntable has been gathering dust ever since. I made the decision just before Christmas to sell the Ion and replaced it with a Pro-Ject debut carbon. I was originally intending to buy a USB equipped phono pre-amp to enable vinyl playback through the Rokit system. Then I remembered that I still had a pair of Opus3 Credo speakers from a previous system which I had never sold. So... I began looking for a cheap 2nd hand quality integrated amp. While searching on ebay I came across a lot of T-amps. I had never heard of these so I began to research them. To cut a long story short I ended up buying a Temple Audio Bantam Classic T amp. I've had the amp a week or so now, playing my records through a Cambridge Audio 551P phono amp and I'm pretty impressed. Every day it sounds that bit better.
Being the obsessive hifi nerd that I am I've now started thinking about how I might improve on the sound even more. To this end I've ordered a DC1 linear power supply from Custom Hifi Cables... I think I may have just started on a journey...:)

[John]

Yes the linear power supply will certainly help. Also if its 12v ? worth trying a battery to see what sounds best to your ears.
Its good to introduce yourself in the welcome section Trevor

[tpbholm]

Thanks John. I have considered trying a battery. I'll see how the DC1 sounds first.. I'm also thinking about swapping the Fatman itube for another T amp. The forthcoming Amptastic Mini T sounds as though it might be worth a try, or I may just get another Bantam.

[keiths]

Hello Trevor - Welcome to the forum :wave:

[John]

The amptastic should be nice when it comes out if you can stretch to the Gold I think you be impressed what that can do

[tpbholm]

The amptastic should be nice when it comes out if you can stretch to the Gold I think you be impressed what that can do

I did consider the Bantam Gold. I guess I was a bit nervous buying an unheard amplifier over the internet. Is the Gold £100 better than the Classic?

[John]

I not heard the classic but have tried the amptastic which is very transparent but lacks the depth of the gold imo
I used to have a valve pre and power amp that would cost you £5000 to purchase I much prefer the Gold (however its run by battery and has a slagle volume control.....so not your standard Bantam) in my system it suits it so much better, but like everything its personal

[twickers]

Welcome to the forum Trevor :). There's a thread here (http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?27475-Temple-Audio-Anyone&highlight=bantam) about the Temple Bantam that may help.