Price reduction. I am quite surprised that no one has snapped this up, this really is one of the best sounding phono stages around at this price and...
:lol: I think you need to reword that, nothing out of any HiFi system is the 'real thing':D, it is purely an attempt at simulating what has been put...
I have been down and back out of this proverbial 'Rabbit Hole" many times, and IMHO there is a case for buying decent interconnects but up to a point...
AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded) SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4 DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded) TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu) DIGITAL
CD PLAYBACK - Shanling ET3 CD Transport over i2s to Dac + MOVIE PLAYBACK Oppo 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac)
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Shanling via Airplay 1 (losslessly) and onwards to Dac via Wireworld Silver Electra 7 i2s HDMI cable SPEAKER CABLES Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - Yup, it sounds better) INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables