MisterP
02-04-2020, 15:54
Great to be in the Forum
To start things off here is my system:
Vinyl
Re-Built Thorens TD150 with custom made plinth & modified suspension (by me)
Silvernote hand built tone arm (not by me)
Goldring E3
Rega Mini II Phono stage
Streaming
Cambridge Audio Stream Magic 6
CD
Old Arcam Alpha+ Still good even now
Amplifier
Roksan Kandy KA1 MkIII Integrated
Speakers
Custom built (by me) Tannoy HPD295A 10" Dual Concentric in 105litre cabinets, with Batpure Supertweeter, Van Damme cables internally, Standard Crossover
Cables
All DIY from designs on TNT.
Speaker Cable is 6 lines of Cat7 braided in pairs terminated in Locking Banana Plugs
Interconnects are TNT x 1.5
Room
6.5m x 5.5m, lots of soft furnishing, hard floor with big deep rug right in front of Speakers to kill first relections from floor
Result
In a word: "staggering".
In a few more words: Typical big Tannoy sound with silky smooth mid-range and vocals, Very hard, attacking bass from the 10" Tannoy (in my opinion better than the 15"). Added sparkle, soundstage and imaging with the Batpure (yes it does work, do not ask my why).
The Thorens with the better plinth and arm/cartridge is rock solid and dynamic (40+ years old!)
The Roksan displays tight control over the very sensitive Tannoys and with 115w pc into 8 Ohms and double that into 4 Ohms the headroom and dynamics are startlingly good.
Arcam Alpha+ CD is good but not a patch on the vinyl or the Stream Magic
Stream Magic sounds nothing like a digital source in this system, very similar in character to the Vinyl.
A few pics:
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2660.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2624.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2636.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2654.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2656.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2658.JPG
To start things off here is my system:
Vinyl
Re-Built Thorens TD150 with custom made plinth & modified suspension (by me)
Silvernote hand built tone arm (not by me)
Goldring E3
Rega Mini II Phono stage
Streaming
Cambridge Audio Stream Magic 6
CD
Old Arcam Alpha+ Still good even now
Amplifier
Roksan Kandy KA1 MkIII Integrated
Speakers
Custom built (by me) Tannoy HPD295A 10" Dual Concentric in 105litre cabinets, with Batpure Supertweeter, Van Damme cables internally, Standard Crossover
Cables
All DIY from designs on TNT.
Speaker Cable is 6 lines of Cat7 braided in pairs terminated in Locking Banana Plugs
Interconnects are TNT x 1.5
Room
6.5m x 5.5m, lots of soft furnishing, hard floor with big deep rug right in front of Speakers to kill first relections from floor
Result
In a word: "staggering".
In a few more words: Typical big Tannoy sound with silky smooth mid-range and vocals, Very hard, attacking bass from the 10" Tannoy (in my opinion better than the 15"). Added sparkle, soundstage and imaging with the Batpure (yes it does work, do not ask my why).
The Thorens with the better plinth and arm/cartridge is rock solid and dynamic (40+ years old!)
The Roksan displays tight control over the very sensitive Tannoys and with 115w pc into 8 Ohms and double that into 4 Ohms the headroom and dynamics are startlingly good.
Arcam Alpha+ CD is good but not a patch on the vinyl or the Stream Magic
Stream Magic sounds nothing like a digital source in this system, very similar in character to the Vinyl.
A few pics:
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2660.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2624.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2636.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2654.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2656.JPG
C:\Users\Sandy's Laptop\Pictures\Hi Fi_DSC2658.JPG