anthonyTD's system pics

[Steve Toy]

System components - Soul Mate pre, Soul Monoblocks, Big Copper amp, Eikos and Shanling CD players.



Soul Stereo power amp




Big Copper amp




A Soul Monoblock. (You need two )



Here's the other one




Soul Mate pre



Soul Stereo power amp




System including Spendor SP1s



Cranfield Rock turntable

[muffinman]

my that's pretty.
i bet that radiator comes in handy

[Marco]

LOL! Observe the bigger brother of my Copper amp - four KT88s per channel, 60W P/P pure Class A... {Drool}

One day it shall be mine

Marco.

[anthonyTD]

my that's pretty.

 i bet that radiator comes in handy

yes, especialy in this weather, mind you, the amps give off almost as much heat.

[DSJR]

Cynical old me noticed the Spendor SP1's first. Boring to some, but I still love 'em..... Those amps do look good. How do they sound compared with things I'd know like EAR or Croft?

I wish I'd bought the EAR509's back in the day. The Tube Technology Genesis mono's ate their EL34's in ten months, around 600 hours (100W from 4xEL34's should have told me) and it rather put me off valve power amps for life.

[Marco]

Dave,

Anthony's SP1s are great - like mini versions of my SP100s

Which amps are you talking about the big Copper chappie or the Soul babies?

Marco.

P.S Did you see my stuff in the other thread?

[anthonyTD]

Cynical old me noticed the Spendor SP1's first. Boring to some, but I still love 'em..... Those amps do look good. How do they sound compared with things I'd know like EAR or Croft?

I wish I'd bought the EAR509's back in the day. The Tube Technology Genesis mono's ate their EL34's in ten months, around 600 hours (100W from 4xEL34's should have told me) and it rather put me off valve power amps for life.

hi Dave,
i know what you mean about the tube technology amps, i have had them in for repair, very over-complicated bias circuitry, and quite hard on valves, aparently the guy who designed them wants nothing to do with them these days, but i think that may be partly to do with personal circumstances, if anyone knows more, let us know.
regards,anthony,TD...
PS, glad you noticed and share my pasion for the SP1's.

[DSJR]

hi Dave,
i know what you mean about the tube technology amps, i have had them in for repair, very over-complicated bias circuitry, and quite hard on valves, aparently the guy who designed them wants nothing to do with them these days, but i think that may be partly to do with personal circumstances, if anyone knows more, let us know.
regards,anthony,TD...
PS, glad you noticed and share my pasion for the SP1's.

Marco sir, please point me in the direction of the thread you referred to in your post..

Mr TD (tech design or Tangerine Dream?), my amps were originally known as TT "Speed 100's" and by comparison with the EAR509's were incredibly "fast" and dynamic. I had them at home driving Epos ES14's for a few months and they were then recalled for update. They came back with "Genesis" badges and new input valves and sounded rather less "tense." It was only when the EL34's expired that Zia recommended Groove Tubes. I bought some, rebiassed one amp (turned it down) and it sounded lovely. The other, sadly, had the wrong resistors on top of the board (which were very difficult for the likes of me to get to) and wouldn't bias low enough. I got them fixed and sold them, replacing them with a Croft un-regulated OTL, the saga of which I've catalogued on the OTL thread. A shame it mis-behaved because it was so simple internally and beautifully put together.

I heard that Zia lost his wife and just lost interest in audio. I hope that's right and that I'm not mis-informing anyone. At least many valve designs can be sericed easily and it must be possible to reduce the bias (or cathode current?) on the amps to extend valve life (or use a different valve more able to give the required power perhaps).

[Marco]

Dave,

Marco sir, please point me in the direction of the thread you referred to in your post..

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1754



Marco.

P.S "TD" = 'Tube Distinctions' - Anthony's valve amp company featuring his own designs.

[shuggz]

Marco sir, please point me in the direction of the thread you referred to in your post..

Mr TD (tech design or Tangerine Dream?), my amps were originally known as TT "Speed 100's" and by comparison with the EAR509's were incredibly "fast" and dynamic. I had them at home driving Epos ES14's for a few months and they were then recalled for update. They came back with "Genesis" badges and new input valves and sounded rather less "tense." It was only when the EL34's expired that Zia recommended Groove Tubes. I bought some, rebiassed one amp (turned it down) and it sounded lovely. The other, sadly, had the wrong resistors on top of the board (which were very difficult for the likes of me to get to) and wouldn't bias low enough. I got them fixed and sold them, replacing them with a Croft un-regulated OTL, the saga of which I've catalogued on the OTL thread. A shame it mis-behaved because it was so simple internally and beautifully put together.

I heard that Zia lost his wife and just lost interest in audio. I hope that's right and that I'm not mis-informing anyone. At least many valve designs can be sericed easily and it must be possible to reduce the bias (or cathode current?) on the amps to extend valve life (or use a different valve more able to give the required power perhaps).

Yes you're correct Zia did loose his wife, she was the heart of the company and they worked quite closely, so understandably he can't do the audio thing without her in his life.