Hello all!

[GeorgeO]

I have been accused of posting without the proper hello, and I'm sorry to say that I'm guilty on all counts! Honestly upon finding this great site I simply leapt without looking, and I now throw myself on the mercy of this august body - hope you'll forgive my impertinence.

My name is George and I've resided in Los Angeles for about 20 years, after moving here as the guitarist for a rock trio from Boise Idaho. Fame and fortune in the music business did not follow, but I gained a lovely wife, a job in marketing, and still have the passion for great music, both as a listener and a player.

My tastes run from early blues to sixties Brit, from Neil Young to Gentle Giant, from Gotan Project to Arcade Fire. I tend to keep music and audio equipment I like for, well, forever. I'm a tinkerer and a DIY type, and enjoy the chase and challenge of making something sing.

My main setup is an Njoe Tjube 4000 CD with upsampler, a Cary SLI-80 F1 Tube Integrated, and Triangle Celius ES speakers. I just recently dragged out the Technics SL-1100A TT I purchased new in the 70s. Amazingly the TT and the original Shure V15 Vmr still work! But this has set me on the slippery slope to optimize and upgrade the TT rig to fully enjoy the 200 or so LPs I've been dragging around for years.

So I'm sure that's more than anyone wants to know about me, but I'm looking forward to learning from the many experts on this site, and maybe even adding an insight or two down the line.

Cheers!

[Spectral Morn]

Hi George


Welcome to AOS.

Nice system, nice taste in music.

Who were the band ?

It would be nice to see photos of your system. Maybe you might like to post some in the Gallery section of the forum.


Regards D S D L

[Alex_UK]

Text-book introductory post GeorgeO, I suspect you will escape being clapped in irons by the first-post police now that you have redeemed yourself! :)

I have no knowledge of your system, (never heard of 2/3's of it to be honest) so some piccies would be great sometime if you can manage.

Enjoy AoS - welcome to the loony bin!

[GeorgeO]

Thanks for the warm welcome and the (hopefully) commuted sentence!

That band went through a few incarnations: Paragon (long-hair power trio), and The Quirks (short-hair power trio), unfortunately both unsigned. I did write and perform on an RCA label release by LA artist David Swanson, "Reclamation". But still waiting on the check from THAT one as well!

Photos of the system to follow shortly.

[The Grand Wazoo]

Hi George,
Welcome to the Art of Sound!

[Techno Commander]

Hello George. :)

[Barry]

Welcome to AoS George.

Nice taste in music you have there.

Enjoy the forum

Regards

[Effem]

Hi George and welcome.

If you are as you say an inate tinkerer, have you had a look at the crossovers in your Triangles? I had a pair of Antal 202s a while back and a few dabs with a soldering iron made them sound so much better than stock :-)

[GeorgeO]

Hi Frank-
Thanks for the tip on the crossovers. What did you do specifically - swap out to higher spec components or do some tweaking of the circuit?

[Effem]

Hi Frank-
Thanks for the tip on the crossovers. What did you do specifically - swap out to higher spec components or do some tweaking of the circuit?

Hi George, Triangle in their infinite wisdom have fitted current limiters to their crossovers in line with the signal to prevent over-driving the speakers - as if anyone would. They look like small capacitors and there is one for each PCB and it's simply a case of soldering a wire jumper link across them to bypass their effects. This really does add some life and energy to the sound and costs nothing. Next, is to take out the white "coffin" ceramic resistors and put in some high quality wirewound replacements. They don't have to be esoteric or expensive - I paid around £4.00 for some good quality 10 watt green vitreous coated resistors off ebay.

You could go the whole hog and fit polypropylene capacitors instead of the cheapo non-polarised electrolytics that Triangle fit as standard, but their sheer size makes fitting them a tad difficult onto the PCB, plus the cost isn't cheap.

[GeorgeO]

Great tips, Frank. Sounds pretty easy. Another item to add to the tweaks list!
Thanks!