337alanT system

You are a brave man Alan

Respect

Hope it works a treat ;)

Thanks Allen, I'm really quite excited to hear it, from what SQ has written about them they are a quality phono stage

Alan

Very lovely setup you have there. You make me feel like getting an r2r but my wife would kill me. Hahhah

costerdock
LOL
No kidding a good calibrated R2R is class and blows everything else away ;), I have 5 at home and one to pick up from a recent ebay purchase Revox PR99 mk2, wife will also say WTF when she finds out :eek::D
I would love a studer 812

Alan

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Thanks Allen, I'm really quite excited to hear it, from what SQ has written about them they are a quality phono stage

Alan

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We could compare reviews? Would be interesting to see what you have to say about yours.

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We could compare reviews? Would be interesting to see what you have to say about yours.

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Yes good idea, looks like yours is getting the royal treatment from Simon who has probably built more of these than anyone else id imagine.
Mine is pretty standard but I am still expecting it to be a big step up from what I have now and I think my Kontrapunkt B still has more to offer with the right loadings.
BTW didn't you have a Cadenza? Black what did you think of that ?.

Alan

Great thread and pictures :)

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Well although I was happy with the end result I had a Hum :eek:, I tried every combination of earthing arrangements and the mains lead is shielded but nothing changed it as the problem is just the proximity of the transformer, If I turn the module on its side or put some metal shielding in between it reduce quite a bit but was not silent :scratch:

So spurred on by Ken Quinn’s wonderful DIY Battery powered Phono stage ;) I was at a car booty and spotted a couple of yausa 12v batteries for £3 each so I snapped them up and was please when I got them home that my 5 stage battery charger indicated they were fine:)
So I ripped out the power supply from the box and wired in the batterys

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The batteries wont fit in the box so I stuck them down the side my rack

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Sound Quality
As soon as the needle hit the record of Joe Cockers Sheffield steel album I new this was special the phono stage was now silent and the sound stage and dynamics had opened right up.
So I am well chuffed and will get a couple of smaller gell batteries to fit in the case at a later stage.
I measured the current output from each battery at 6ma so these 4.7AH should last about 6 months :eyebrows:

Happy days
Alan

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The Batteries where a bargain for £3.

It would be a good idea to fit a fuse on both of those batteries, all it needs is a pair of inline fuse holders and a few crimp terminals.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=in...w=1593&bih=981

They are near wood that burns well and no fuse could be a problem if there was a fault.
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Alan is The Man!!!!!!:)

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Yes good idea, looks like yours is getting the royal treatment from Simon who has probably built more of these than anyone else id imagine.
Mine is pretty standard but I am still expecting it to be a big step up from what I have now and I think my Kontrapunkt B still has more to offer with the right loadings.
BTW didn't you have a Cadenza? Black what did you think of that ?.

Alan

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It will be a big step up, have you read the review I posted? It makes for interesting reading. This new 4box version has a few more tweeks compared to Simons version. I do indeed have a Cadenza black, it's excellent the best cart I have ever owned and was used in the review I did of the paradise phonostage.

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Just bought a piece of 20mm Perspex from E-bay
It arrived with rough cut edges so I sanded them down then put a 5mm bevel on the top edge with my plane followed by fine sand paper on all edges.

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It looks and sounds better than the old plywood shelf as well, the deck sounds cleaner and tighter

Alan

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Nice Alan, thinking of a DIY Perspex shelf for my forthcoming Gyrodec project as the Michell versions are not cheap.....