A Visit to vinyljunkie's billet

[mad-moon]

New rig set up at Steve's new billet...after the thieves pinched his previous kit..Nice Thorens TD160 with a mission774 arm...Denon pre and monoblocs..a little Chevron paradox..a fire bottle head amp..and of course a pair of rather nice AN E's...plenty of coffee and jaffa's on the go the tunes started..Led Zep..Jack Johnson..Ry Cooder to name only a few...I'll not mention the shite I took along..a bit twee for Steve's taste..Krell mad (Vince)..and Clarkey555 (Pete the feet) were also present...It was a difficult night as this is a new rig...and needs some fettling in certain areas..but hey...this has the potential to be a very nice rig..once we get it sorted...Vince brought along a very nice Cambridge CXC transport and an exceptionally nice dac built by a local engineer..that good that Steve twisted Vince's arm up his back and relieved him of them...of course Steve is no mug..and got them for a bargain...I took along my Forte audio model 2 class A pre...which went in and brought the system to life...A cracking pre in itself also has on board a very nice phono stage..but sadly it was set up for mm...and not mc...but we're gonna source the values of the cart and set the internal switching to mc and see how it goes...but I just know it is gonna make his vinyl set up sing...

[RichB]

:worthless:

[Marco]

+1. When arranging these bake-offs, as well as packing the equipment, pack a camera/phone in order to take some pics of the gear demonstrated, to post on the forum. You can take pics of your ugly mugs too, if you want, but it's mostly the gear folk are interesting in seeing! :D

;)

Marco.

[mad-moon]

No pics were taken on the night...we were too busy sorting the kit...next time boys..when it's fettled properly..well take some pics...which will be in the near future...

[vinyljunky]

Here's some pics of the gear audionote ane speakers denon dap 2500 pre denon poa4400a monoblocks forte audio 2 pre Thorens td160 super deck Zyx yatra r100 cart Cambridge audio cxc transport home brew dac Firebottle head amp

[vinyljunky]

More pics

[walpurgis]

A Forte Model 2, Yatra & 774! The man has taste. :)

[struth]

http://theartofsound.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=16640&d=1460285818

http://theartofsound.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=16647&d=1460286439

http://theartofsound.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=16642&d=1460285922

[vinyljunky]

Cheers grant for the nicer piccies me iphone5s is not the best for photos cheers Geoff they are nice bits of kit I will do a proper write up on some of our findings later

[struth]

Cheers grant for the nicer piccies me iphone5s is not the best for photos cheers Geoff they are nice bits of kit I will do a proper write up on some of our findings later

Try the tapatalk app on iphone..it pops your pics straight up full size from phone... I find it very handy and its free.

[Floyddroid]

Sounds like a great session. The kit looks the business. Sometimes you can get so wrapped up in the music that the whole concept of taking pictures gets totally forgotten about.
Steve's system certainly looks interesting and itis great to see him getting back on track after his break in.

[Qwin]

+1 That's a nice looking system you've put together Steve.

[vinyljunky]

Still a way to go set the dip switches on the forte audio but not 100% that it's the correct loading for the cart also gonna get a strobe to make sure the platters spinning at 33 and a third:D

[petrat]

Love the look of those monoblocks. Are the speakers working out OK, Steve?

[vinyljunky]

The speakers are definetly synergising with the denon and forte audio gonna try some different isolation between the speakers and the stands I think this will tighten up the bass even more:D

[petrat]

Excellent, Steve! I think they will respond well to tweakery ...

[Starterman]

Still a way to go set the dip switches on the forte audio but not 100% that it's the correct loading for the cart also gonna get a strobe to make sure the platters spinning at 33 and a third:D

You don't need a strobe; just count the revs over 3 minutes. It should be 100.
If you're OCD you do it over 3000 minutes for some extra resolution :D