simbo
18-02-2011, 22:50
Hello everyone,
Browsed the forum a few times, but have decided to take the plunge, register and bare all!
My hifi journey started when I went off to college in 1990 (yes, I'm a relative young 'un - 40 this year). I picked up a second-hand Marantz PM55 and a pair of Sony bookshelf speakers with square woofers - I forget the model. At the front was a Dual CS-505 TT.
The TT eventually went into the garage when the stylus needed replacing and £20 for a new ortofon was a lot of money. I bought a Sony CDP (the first model in the then new range with the AMS navigation system) in the mid 1990s I think.
This system lasted for about eight years. The amp blew up and the laser went on the CDP. I got the entry Marantz gear (CD5001/PM4001) and some Mission M31i speakers in about 2003. My wife bought me a Project Debut III for Christmas which I loved.
I then got the Marantz CD6002 / PM7001 and a pair of Monitor Audio BR5s. This lastest about 3 months! I then bought (when drunk) off eBay a couple of Cyrus 6 Powers and a PreVS2. This started a rapid race through the Cyrus range trying to achieve a sound Cyrus does not provide (oh well, we all have to learn what we like somehow). This culminated in the a CDXt / DACXP / Mono X into Totem Acoustic Sttaf speakers.
I then heard some Audio Note gear at a hifi show in 2009 and was smitten. The Cyrus gear got sold over the period of a few months during which I hunted out Audio Note equipment.
My current system is all Audio Note, as follows:
Analogue: TT-Two / Arm Three / IQ3 (this has the silver AN-Vx cabling)
Digital: CDT2 / DAC2.1x Signature connected together with an AN-LEXUS digital interconnect and AN-LEXUS RCA to the amp
Amp: OTO Phono SE connected to the 'speakers with AN-La
Speakers: AN-E/Spe
I am, right now, listening to the Decemberists' Hazards of Love on vinyl and loving every minute of it. Although my musical tastes are quite eclectic. I am afraid to say I am not a fan of prog rock, but thats about it (I think thats a generation thing).
Anyway, thats me.
All the best.
Phil
Browsed the forum a few times, but have decided to take the plunge, register and bare all!
My hifi journey started when I went off to college in 1990 (yes, I'm a relative young 'un - 40 this year). I picked up a second-hand Marantz PM55 and a pair of Sony bookshelf speakers with square woofers - I forget the model. At the front was a Dual CS-505 TT.
The TT eventually went into the garage when the stylus needed replacing and £20 for a new ortofon was a lot of money. I bought a Sony CDP (the first model in the then new range with the AMS navigation system) in the mid 1990s I think.
This system lasted for about eight years. The amp blew up and the laser went on the CDP. I got the entry Marantz gear (CD5001/PM4001) and some Mission M31i speakers in about 2003. My wife bought me a Project Debut III for Christmas which I loved.
I then got the Marantz CD6002 / PM7001 and a pair of Monitor Audio BR5s. This lastest about 3 months! I then bought (when drunk) off eBay a couple of Cyrus 6 Powers and a PreVS2. This started a rapid race through the Cyrus range trying to achieve a sound Cyrus does not provide (oh well, we all have to learn what we like somehow). This culminated in the a CDXt / DACXP / Mono X into Totem Acoustic Sttaf speakers.
I then heard some Audio Note gear at a hifi show in 2009 and was smitten. The Cyrus gear got sold over the period of a few months during which I hunted out Audio Note equipment.
My current system is all Audio Note, as follows:
Analogue: TT-Two / Arm Three / IQ3 (this has the silver AN-Vx cabling)
Digital: CDT2 / DAC2.1x Signature connected together with an AN-LEXUS digital interconnect and AN-LEXUS RCA to the amp
Amp: OTO Phono SE connected to the 'speakers with AN-La
Speakers: AN-E/Spe
I am, right now, listening to the Decemberists' Hazards of Love on vinyl and loving every minute of it. Although my musical tastes are quite eclectic. I am afraid to say I am not a fan of prog rock, but thats about it (I think thats a generation thing).
Anyway, thats me.
All the best.
Phil