azgary
12-06-2015, 08:13
My name is Gary and I live in Sun City, Arizona where it gets way too hot as in too many days over 110F each year.
I'm originally from Michigan and have lived in Arizona (three times), Connecticut, state of Washington and San Francisco. Now I'm just another retired old f... living in Arizona.
Audio-wise my tastes are in jazz, classical and country. My system is almost totally tube-based. The main system is really two systems that meet at a shared pair of monoblocks.
System 1, I refer to as the UVS or Ultimate Vinyl System consists of a custom-built two-arm Lenco L-75 (AT-1005 with a DL 103 and an AT-1009 with a DL-103D) feeding a Bottlehead Seduction phono stage which in turn feeds into a Bottlehead Foreplay III preamplifier and then into a pair of Bottlehead shunt-regulated Paramour II 45 monoblocks. This side also has a Dynaco FM-3 and a Pioneer RT-707.
System 2, is called the DA system which is named after Don Allen lately of Phoenix who designed and built my custom phono and line stages. Don also modified a Philips CD player to have a tube output stage. There is an Otari MX5050-BII that has had the output electronics intercepted and signal fed into a Bottlehead Seduction phono stage modified for NAB or IEC equalization. There is also a SiriusXM receiver (recent addition).
The speakers were also designed by Don Allen and built to his specifications. They are Eminence 15" with a Pyle tweeter. Efficiency is estimated at 97%. The estimated 1 watt output of the 45s drives them nicely.
OOps, I almost forgot the UVS also has a Bottlehead S.E.X. amp which sends it's output to a pair of Sennheiser HD-650s.
I have a smaller system in my darkroom (yes, B&W film photography does go hand in hand with a tube stereo playing vinyl). It consists of another FM3 and a Don Allen "cakepan" amp into a pair of University 312s, right out of the 50's.
I'm really into Lencos. I have two construction projects currently in the form of two piles of mechanical and electronic "stuff" that hopefully will soon end up as two more custom-built L75s.
That's it for tonight.
Good to be here.
Gary
I'm originally from Michigan and have lived in Arizona (three times), Connecticut, state of Washington and San Francisco. Now I'm just another retired old f... living in Arizona.
Audio-wise my tastes are in jazz, classical and country. My system is almost totally tube-based. The main system is really two systems that meet at a shared pair of monoblocks.
System 1, I refer to as the UVS or Ultimate Vinyl System consists of a custom-built two-arm Lenco L-75 (AT-1005 with a DL 103 and an AT-1009 with a DL-103D) feeding a Bottlehead Seduction phono stage which in turn feeds into a Bottlehead Foreplay III preamplifier and then into a pair of Bottlehead shunt-regulated Paramour II 45 monoblocks. This side also has a Dynaco FM-3 and a Pioneer RT-707.
System 2, is called the DA system which is named after Don Allen lately of Phoenix who designed and built my custom phono and line stages. Don also modified a Philips CD player to have a tube output stage. There is an Otari MX5050-BII that has had the output electronics intercepted and signal fed into a Bottlehead Seduction phono stage modified for NAB or IEC equalization. There is also a SiriusXM receiver (recent addition).
The speakers were also designed by Don Allen and built to his specifications. They are Eminence 15" with a Pyle tweeter. Efficiency is estimated at 97%. The estimated 1 watt output of the 45s drives them nicely.
OOps, I almost forgot the UVS also has a Bottlehead S.E.X. amp which sends it's output to a pair of Sennheiser HD-650s.
I have a smaller system in my darkroom (yes, B&W film photography does go hand in hand with a tube stereo playing vinyl). It consists of another FM3 and a Don Allen "cakepan" amp into a pair of University 312s, right out of the 50's.
I'm really into Lencos. I have two construction projects currently in the form of two piles of mechanical and electronic "stuff" that hopefully will soon end up as two more custom-built L75s.
That's it for tonight.
Good to be here.
Gary