nthall
17-01-2017, 20:07
I'm Nathan Hall from Kansas City, Missouri. I'm mostly a rock guy, but I also love classic country. I'll listen to anything I can get my hands on, and the dollar bin is my favorite place to be. I think I've crossed the line from being a vinyl lover into a full blown hoarder. I keep a CD player, and dac around for special occasions.
I've enjoyed repairing, and building electronics my whole life. Most of my early gear was the old stuff my friends parents were replacing. I took it as trade for hooking up the new stuff.
I definitely prefer vintage gear aside from speakers. I like the look, ruggedness, and simplicity of repair. I've owned just about every brand and model aside from the high end boutique stuff at one time or another. I like working on the gear as much as listening, so my rack is constantly changing. I was just looking at a picture of my setup from last week and half of the stuff is gone already. I have never ventured into the land of boutique brands, mostly because I'm cheap. I'd rather tweak the low to midrange stuff, and wring some extra performance out of it. I like tone controls and make my own cables, so I'm not a purist.
Right now my rack consists of:
Micro Seiki DD-35
Mac 1700
Marantz 2238B
Marantz 5420
Marantz 5001 (heavily modded)
Homebrew TD-1541 based DAC
Dual 1019 with a stacker for 45s
Audio Technica LP-120 (also heavily modded). It has ended up with many spare parts from other projects and sounds amazingly good. It was a waste of money to upgrade it that much, but why not?
Klipsch towers (I don't remember the model #, but they aren't the ones they sell at Best Buy).
No tubes, standalone pres, or power amps in the system right now, but they come and go.
I have three shelfs full of other gear that's not currently hooked up, and a lot more in a storage unit that I still need to restore.
I'm glad to be here. Feel free to ask away if you want to know more. I like to chat.
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I've enjoyed repairing, and building electronics my whole life. Most of my early gear was the old stuff my friends parents were replacing. I took it as trade for hooking up the new stuff.
I definitely prefer vintage gear aside from speakers. I like the look, ruggedness, and simplicity of repair. I've owned just about every brand and model aside from the high end boutique stuff at one time or another. I like working on the gear as much as listening, so my rack is constantly changing. I was just looking at a picture of my setup from last week and half of the stuff is gone already. I have never ventured into the land of boutique brands, mostly because I'm cheap. I'd rather tweak the low to midrange stuff, and wring some extra performance out of it. I like tone controls and make my own cables, so I'm not a purist.
Right now my rack consists of:
Micro Seiki DD-35
Mac 1700
Marantz 2238B
Marantz 5420
Marantz 5001 (heavily modded)
Homebrew TD-1541 based DAC
Dual 1019 with a stacker for 45s
Audio Technica LP-120 (also heavily modded). It has ended up with many spare parts from other projects and sounds amazingly good. It was a waste of money to upgrade it that much, but why not?
Klipsch towers (I don't remember the model #, but they aren't the ones they sell at Best Buy).
No tubes, standalone pres, or power amps in the system right now, but they come and go.
I have three shelfs full of other gear that's not currently hooked up, and a lot more in a storage unit that I still need to restore.
I'm glad to be here. Feel free to ask away if you want to know more. I like to chat.
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