Tiguan Stereo System

[tiguan]

After using mainly small and mobile systems (small bookshelf, Class T amp) for many years, as I am a civil engineer and lived totaly almost 10 years in Russia, Romania and Libya and travelled a lot at 2010 came back to homeland and started to give more time for my beloved hobby. After changing many new or second hand equipments I decided to push my limits and slowly to establish a mainly DIY system. (was very tough without electronic knowledge). Thanks god I had some friends here who answered my questions.

After 3 years of efforts today my stereo system is formed by Troels Gravesen Jensen 1071 Speakers, Gamut D200 Mk3 power (only pure equipment ), recently completed Roy Mottram's SP14 tube pre, DIY Rack, DIY Interconnects from 0.5 Mundorf silver/gold, DIY Speaker cable from Amphenol microphone cable (which will be changed soon hopefully)

Analog Side:
Rega P3-24 (Michael Lim subplatter and dual pulley mod)+Cinemag SUT+Denon DL103R, DIY Boozhound Le Pacific Phono Pre,
Digital side 2 alternative
- Sony 337 ESD (with tents lab clock module)
- Netbook +Linux Debian+Jriver MC+ DXIOS USB-Coaxial converter (www.diyinkh.com) + CS4397 DAC ready modded acc. Lukas Fikus receipt from HkAudio Lawrence) "CS4397 DAC is the initiator of finding this forum" :)

I will add a general photo as I do not have one with me at office, but this are the photos for each main component of the system during each stage of DIY work.

Jensen 1071 Speakers (Troels Gravesen) https://plus.google.com/photos/105041940468126077194/albums/5700386962714930097
Tubes4Hifi (Roy Mottram) SP14 Tube Pre https://plus.google.com/photos/105041940468126077194/albums/6039175845297286721
Boozhound Le Pacific MM Phono Pre (Jason) https://plus.google.com/photos/105041940468126077194/albums/6039895952859726289
CS4397 Lampucera DAC (Lawrence - Ebay) https://plus.google.com/photos/105041940468126077194/albums/6039926193720918561 (Now it is inside tube pre chassis)

[struth]

For someone with no electronics experience you have done marvellously well Yetkin. More power to your elbow mate:)

[tiguan]

:) Thanks struth. Both Roy from tubes4hifi and Troels were full with patience. They answered to all my questions. From their point of view may be sometimes to very ridiculous ones. :) But they answered them all.
Internet is a huge source on the other hand. İ learned soldering from youtube :)

[synsei]

You are an inspiration Yetkin, very well done my friend ;)

[walpurgis]

Very nice. You do good work Yetkin! :)

[tiguan]

Thanks guys. Trying to do my best...

[walpurgis]

Your best is very good. We have quite a few excellent DIY guys here Yetkin. Have you looked through 'The Drawing Board' and 'The gallery' sections? There have been some superb projects.

[tiguan]

Thanks for guidance. İ was making myself some orientation about forum. Where is what...

[tiguan]

Here there are some photos for my system.
You will say what the hell is that furniture between speakers :) . But I moved speakers around within living room best sounding location was there. Not the best but will wait for us changing apartment.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/10/02/etetu7yz.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/10/02/tamaduja.jpg

[tiguan]

Week ago I received 2 matched Sylvania vt231, recently I spend my time for matching, changing between buffer stage and gain stage of sp14 pre. Besides those Sylvania vt231 İ have quad matched Sylvania 6sn7 GTB Chrome tops, 2 RCA matched 6sn7 GT and 2 Raytheon matched 6sn7 GTB s. Will see, which combination will be the best and at which location gain or buffer...