Darren L
25-11-2020, 09:16
Howdy folks,
I've been interested in Hifi equipment since my early teens and had many different systems and component changes during the late eighties, nineties and early noughties. I sold off my 'hi-end' system in 2005 as I wanted to build a motorcycle, over a 12 year period I built a few. As I had achieved my goal where bikes are concerned and coinciding with a house move resulting in a dedicated music room I moved my attention to 'building' a new system.
During the bike building era I still kept buying records and used an RP3 & Exact, Brio R and a pair of SF concertos and Gravis B sub which I've owned since 1998.
I did add a TT-PSU, rewired the tonearm, alloy Subplatter and Delrin platter, all worked very well and offered good VFM.
On deciding I wanted something a bit better I went on my past experience and bought some new and pre-owned equipment. My system now consists of:
NA Dais
Hadcock 242se
Shure V15-Vmxr
Copland 301 valve pre
Michell Alecto Monos (MK 2 , upgraded by Trichord)
SF Olympica I
SF Gravis B sub
Cables are from various companies, Kimber, Chord and TQ.
CD has always been very much a secondary source mainly for background listening and mostly used in my workshop/ studio.
My next steps will be to upgrade my tonearm, or rather add a second tonearm, MC and phono stage, then change my amplification and speakers.
As for music I guess most of it would be considered Rock or Pop, though mostly left field, encompassing all the different genres and sub-genres, Bowie has been my firm favourite for nearly 40 years but apart from his last masterpiece I don't listen to Jazz, I do quite like some classical music as background especially when I'm painting. I quite like some country/Americana, all in all I would say there's great artists, bands and albums from all genres of music but an awful lot of dross too.
I've been interested in Hifi equipment since my early teens and had many different systems and component changes during the late eighties, nineties and early noughties. I sold off my 'hi-end' system in 2005 as I wanted to build a motorcycle, over a 12 year period I built a few. As I had achieved my goal where bikes are concerned and coinciding with a house move resulting in a dedicated music room I moved my attention to 'building' a new system.
During the bike building era I still kept buying records and used an RP3 & Exact, Brio R and a pair of SF concertos and Gravis B sub which I've owned since 1998.
I did add a TT-PSU, rewired the tonearm, alloy Subplatter and Delrin platter, all worked very well and offered good VFM.
On deciding I wanted something a bit better I went on my past experience and bought some new and pre-owned equipment. My system now consists of:
NA Dais
Hadcock 242se
Shure V15-Vmxr
Copland 301 valve pre
Michell Alecto Monos (MK 2 , upgraded by Trichord)
SF Olympica I
SF Gravis B sub
Cables are from various companies, Kimber, Chord and TQ.
CD has always been very much a secondary source mainly for background listening and mostly used in my workshop/ studio.
My next steps will be to upgrade my tonearm, or rather add a second tonearm, MC and phono stage, then change my amplification and speakers.
As for music I guess most of it would be considered Rock or Pop, though mostly left field, encompassing all the different genres and sub-genres, Bowie has been my firm favourite for nearly 40 years but apart from his last masterpiece I don't listen to Jazz, I do quite like some classical music as background especially when I'm painting. I quite like some country/Americana, all in all I would say there's great artists, bands and albums from all genres of music but an awful lot of dross too.