Maikel's stereo setup

[Maikel]

Hi everyone,

I would like to share my stereo-setup. First a little bit about myself. My name is Maikel and I'm Dutch (from the eastern part of The Netherland) and living with my wife in the Northern part of Bangkok.
In the livingroom we have our stereo setup consisting:
Turntable: Thorens TD-2001 with Mahoney plinth and MDF floorboard, with the beautiful Benz Micro ACE Low cartridge.
Phono-pre: Mitsubishi DA-P10 pre-amp, where I only use the phono-amp inside together with some step-up transformers
Ampflifier: Unison Research Simply two with NOS tubes from Telefunken (pre ECC88) and Philips EL34
Speakers: Sonus Faber Electa I (very first square model), solid walnut wood with leather baffle and matching stands.
Digital: raspberry pi 2 with raspbian, mpd, bitperfect settings, Soundirok iOS app, looking to install RT (realtime) kernel soon.

My setup:
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[walpurgis]

That's an interesting selection of equipment you have Maikel. I suspect it all sounds rather nice together.

The Sonus Faber Electas are very good. You'd have to spead a lot of money to better them.

[Macca]

Looks great, good taste in furniture too.

[struth]

very nice Maikel. attractive room. been looking for a sideboard/ audio shelving myself.

[Zoidburg]

Lovely set up mate very classy looking

[Maikel]

That's an interesting selection of equipment you have Maikel. I suspect it all sounds rather nice together.

The Sonus Faber Electas are very good. You'd have to spead a lot of money to better them.

Yeah the SF are really amazing. For the looks it's quite 'love it or hate it' but I adore them already for that, and the sound :stalks: Carefully gathered all equipment in many years, very happy with it. Thanks for your kind words


Looks great, good taste in furniture too.

Thank you. Furniture is from 'SB furniture', purchased here in Bangkok.


very nice Maikel. attractive room. been looking for a sideboard/ audio shelving myself.
Thank you, it's actually a very good sounding room too. No concrete, but all plaster walls and a lot of curtains.
The sideboard is from 'SB furniture', not sure if it's available outside Thailand. The shelves under the record player and amp are filled with all my records :) Good for dampening hehe


Lovely set up mate very classy looking
Thank you, you might suspect I'm a wood-guy ;)

[HackneyRF]

Very nice indeed Maikel. You clearly think highly of the Sonus Fabers. One to add to my list of speakers to check out when I eventually make some changes.

All the best

Loz

[Sovereign]

Nice one mate

[Spectral Morn]

That looks nice

[Maikel]

Very nice indeed Maikel. You clearly think highly of the Sonus Fabers. One to add to my list of speakers to check out when I eventually make some changes.

All the best

Loz
Definetely, I love the build quality and also the wide range from affordable to extremely high end.
Good to know is the old series (like my one) are 'romantic' sounding, with a slight tone from neutral. The new SF's are very technical and neutral and according to some they don't have that magic that the 'old' versions have. Please discover for yourself.


Nice one mate


That looks nice

Thanks everyone for your nice words.
Much apriciated :)