willcal48
22-07-2020, 10:46
My name is John Willson and I am a painter by profession. I also like singing so I am a member of two local choirs.I've been a music lover all my life and as a kid, I loved pop rock folk and Greek music, but over the years I started to expand my musical taste to classical, the opera jazz and international music. So in fact, I listen to all kinds of music preferably jazz and classical.
Since listening at the age of 18 to a fantastic stereo system, consisting of a pair of Quad speakers quad tube amps and a Garrard 401 with an SME arm a Shure cartridge I got hooked to listening to a good stereo system and to live music whenever I could. Gradually as my income improved I developed my stereo and I acquired, mostly second hand, some rather lovely pieces.
Now I have a system that I get a real pleasure from listening to.
A Pierre Lurne J4 turntable with a Mission Mechanic arm and a Dynavector XX2 MKII.
A pair of Avantgarde uno speakers
A VAC PA80/80 TUBE amp.A Pass DIY ACA 1.6, made by my wife and a Marantz 1030 from the 70s
A Pioneer cd player.
A SOTM SMS 200 streamer.
A Chord 2qute DAC.
A Whest Audio .20 phono preamp.
A Prometheus Transformer Volume Control Preamp.
As you may realize I mostly listen to LPs and the last 2 years via my streamer to TIDAL and to high definition music downloaded to hard discs.
Thanks again for letting me join your forum.
John
Since listening at the age of 18 to a fantastic stereo system, consisting of a pair of Quad speakers quad tube amps and a Garrard 401 with an SME arm a Shure cartridge I got hooked to listening to a good stereo system and to live music whenever I could. Gradually as my income improved I developed my stereo and I acquired, mostly second hand, some rather lovely pieces.
Now I have a system that I get a real pleasure from listening to.
A Pierre Lurne J4 turntable with a Mission Mechanic arm and a Dynavector XX2 MKII.
A pair of Avantgarde uno speakers
A VAC PA80/80 TUBE amp.A Pass DIY ACA 1.6, made by my wife and a Marantz 1030 from the 70s
A Pioneer cd player.
A SOTM SMS 200 streamer.
A Chord 2qute DAC.
A Whest Audio .20 phono preamp.
A Prometheus Transformer Volume Control Preamp.
As you may realize I mostly listen to LPs and the last 2 years via my streamer to TIDAL and to high definition music downloaded to hard discs.
Thanks again for letting me join your forum.
John