Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the detailed reply - very interesting! I'll reply properly when I have more time
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Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the detailed reply - very interesting! I'll reply properly when I have more time
Marco.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and 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. 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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Ah, thanks for the clarification Neil. Really liked them when I heard them a fair few years back now.Originally Posted by Dalek Supreme D L
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Ooo- I'm jealous as hell about your Restek power amps!
I've had a Restek Consens pre-amp (silver fascia) for well more than a year now (a long time for a boxswapper like me!) - I think it's probably the best pre-amp I've had. Not that far off a good passive when it comes to transparency, and loads of drive (which a passive doesn't have) - and it just sounds good to listen to.
Lovely system you have there.
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Evening Jerry,
I remember the first time I was demo'd the Consens, it was virtually invisible to the system, and as you say very transparent.
Since moving to completely balanced configuration, this has provided a very much more immediate sound with more expression and emotion, there's more description to the sound, the music appears from a more "inky black" background, everything is more pronounced, more textured and dynamic, improved focus.
I can certainly vouch for balanced XLR over single-ended RCA. It makes XLR sound HD, and RCA like standard definition, with XLR it enables far greater sense of richness to be heard, like it's handed on a plate.
Those Extract mono's pack a punch and a half!, and on the flip side can be a light as air with an ease of transparency.
That reminds me, what disc shall I play now?.........*thinking*
regards
Stephen
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Hi all,
I thought I'd post up the new member of the family to join my system, I have now added the Restek Cosmos FM tuner.
I managed to purchase this off a nice guy in Poland, it's superb, it's right up there with CD quality performance, fully RDS, it's quite superb, the imaging and sound-staging is truly excellent, once again I've used balanced XLR's to gain the best in acoustic performance, together with installing a dedicated FM aerial in the loft, the reception is crystal clear with little, to no background hiss that I can speak of.
regards
Stephen
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Restek make loudspeakers as well you know
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