Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Location: Seaford UK
Posts: 1,861
I'm Dennis.
For room reflection problems I mount a curtain on walls as though over a window, heavy velvet from charity shops.
Thanks Steve, good to have your opinion, as you've owned most of my hifi! I guess then issue is either my room, or how I hear sound, I am quite sensitive to discordant sound, whether its jazz trumpet or screechy guitar, but that is amongst my favourite music. My cd player is well old, could do with a once over, its got a high quality chip and mechanism.
Current system 1210 GR. CDP - Meridian G08. Amp -Sugden A21I - Sig. Wharfedale Lintons.
Current system 1210 GR. CDP - Meridian G08. Amp -Sugden A21I - Sig. Wharfedale Lintons.
Current system 1210 GR. CDP - Meridian G08. Amp -Sugden A21I - Sig. Wharfedale Lintons.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Legacy quality control IMO, have owned a pair of Legacy Arden's. There are lots of views and arguments about vintage versus new Tannoy's, you can go down the proverbial rabbit hole if you get involved in that. My Arden's were superb and from what others have told me the rest of the range a pretty special including the Eaton's. If Sue would let me I would go back to a pair tomorrow but that is not going to happen in a hurry and thankfully my WB Vectors do 98% of what the Tannoys do.
It is a good thing to remember that manufacturers are aiming to improve products, Tannoy when re-introducing their Legacy range they would have done just that, they also now have the benefit of modern technology to use to improve designs and manufacturing.
This review is from Paul Rigby is probably as close to the truth you will get about them. https://theaudiophileman.com/eaton/
Listening is the act of aural discrimination and dissemination of sound, and accepting you get it wrong sometimes.
Analog Inputs: Pro-Ject Signature 10 TT & arm, Benz Micro LP-S, Michel Cusis MC, Goldring 2500 and Ortofon Rondo Blue cartridges, Hitachi FT5500 mk2 Tuner
Digital:- Marantz SA-KI Pearl CD player, RaspberryPi/HifiBerry Digi+ Pro, Buffalo NAS Drive
Amplification:- AudioValve Sunilda phono stage, Krell KSP-7B pre-amp, Krell KSA-80 power amp
Output: Wilson Benesch Vector speakers, KLH Ultimate One Headphones
Cables: Tellurium Q Ultra Black II RCA & Chord Epic 2 RCA, various speaker leads, & links
I think I am nearing audio nirvana, but don’t tell anyone.
System sounding a bit better now overall, getting rid of that large chest of drawers definitely a good idea, allows more room for speaker positioning, speakers are away from both walls, not as Audio note recommend, but they sound better that way to me. Bit more content with sound, though sharpness in high notes persists. Some nice wow moments, with imaging etc, still not tried with rock though, as need to set up TT shelf on wall, and only have jazz on cd. This is with the S500, after I replaced all the valves with Gold lions, might try changing the valves in the Soro too, or I may not, really doesn't seem to be much difference in quality between the two amps, the S500 was modified by AD audio so is far from standard.
Current system 1210 GR. CDP - Meridian G08. Amp -Sugden A21I - Sig. Wharfedale Lintons.
Location: HAMPSTEAD
Posts: 1,156
I'm brian.
Got the mayware set up yet ?