Hi Guys
As hinted elsewhere on the forum (over the last month or so)there have been some changes a foot in my main system and in my upstairs set up (more on that when its finished).
The layout of the room has changed slightly. My old book case has been replaced by a rack full of Cd's taken from upstairs (Prog rock and contemporary Pop) and I have set up a separate (though still linked to the main set up) headphone system comprising of Marantz CD7, Audio Valve RKV mk2 headphone amplifier, Leak Troughline and FM decoder. This set up can be used independent of the main set up or with it (thanks to the Sony SB500). This allows me to use headphones late at night without firing up my main system, and also to review headphone amplifiers, more simply
These changes were mostly set off by the arrival of open reel on New Skaro, in the form of the Revox B77 mk2(I will leave all the details on that to a future write up which is in the pipeline). In order to site it upright it needed to sit where the BAT Vk10se phono stage was and that required a swop round of the rack and a switch to solid state amplification in the shape of the Chapter Audio Couplet (this shift from valve amplification is only temporary...at this time ), which is very good and much better than it has been before...probably because I am using it with the Bat VK31se valve pre.
The set up, wiring and routing of signals between the tape recorders, Revox and Nakamichi CR5e, required a tape input output selector/switcher and the chance finding of one on E-Bay (thanks manorcom)in the form of a Sony SB500 solved those issues in style.
So there we have it......so far...........
Regards D S D L