My 2019 Update Thread - My final system I think.

[Gazjam]

What phonostage are you using Gaz?

I'm using a PS Audio Nuwave phono converter Oliver

https://www.psaudio.com/products/nuw...ono-converter/

Dont feel as though I'm missing out on anything with this, and looking forward to trying out it's digital box of tricks at a later date.

[Bigman80]

I'm using a PS Audio Nuwave phono converter Oliver

https://www.psaudio.com/products/nuw...ono-converter/

Dont feel as though I'm missing out on anything with this, and looking forward to trying out it's digital box of tricks at a later date.

Oh, I'll have a look into that.

Glad the rega has rekindled the analogue for you mate. Sometimes, a change can do wonders.

[struth]

I have a similar type of phono; in that it can play it digitally on fly at several rates.. Mine is a fair bit cheaper than Gary's tho.. a project ds2 usb

[Gazjam]

Vinyl rips were another reason I pushed the boat out and got the P10.

I wanted my rips to be as good as possible...so source first.

[Jimbo]

Hows it going with the P10 Gaz, bin playing much vinyl?

[Clive197]

I'm using a PS Audio Nuwave phono converter Oliver

https://www.psaudio.com/products/nuw...ono-converter/

Dont feel as though I'm missing out on anything with this, and looking forward to trying out it's digital box of tricks at a later date.

I use the PS Audio NuWave phono converter also. I was thinking of trying the Chord Huei but have put that on hold as I’m very happy with the NuWave.

[Gazjam]

Same here Clive, its a really great sounding Phonostage, even if you strip away all the digital gubbins.

Only see me ever changing it for the new Rega Aura, (heard one - its phenomenal with the Planar 10) but its very spendy, so that's way way down the line.
My new carts not even broken in yet, so a change to my phonostage is in the distant future.

[Gazjam]

Hows it going with the P10 Gaz, bin playing much vinyl?

Sorry Jimbo, just noticed your post there!

Abso-Effen-Lutely mate...
The more hours I put on the deck the better it sounds, the cart being brand new.
A happy ending to my vinyl Saga for sure and I’m real happy about that.

When I invested in my Gorbe/SME V/Dynavector “grail” deck I spent “rather a lot” on vinyl at the same time?
I wanted to get my favourite albums on vinyl that I had “back in the day” when I had my old Planar 2 as well as the newer ones I’d collected on CD over the years since then.
All those, as well as the albums from my favourite Bands and...well, you get the picture.
Put it this way, Discogs did rather well.
Quite the investment and i got a bit obsessive about it at the time if I was honest.
But hey...job done...right?

Well...
I began to realise I was listening less and less to vinyl as my digital was sounding more engaging, I’d started to think I’d made an expensive mistake investing in all that vinyl.
Maybe it just wasn’t for me after all having gone in hard to investing in my digital kit.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

Thankfully, it wasn’t vinyl itself, but my pursuit of a Piece of equipment I carried in my head, not my heart...or should I say in my ears.
Moral of the story kids, listen, listen and listen some more to kit before you spend big on it.
Cool to have a “grail”, but you need to enjoy it too.

Zap forward to Rega’s latest and greatest. Holy hell...
Different flavours...maybe, but I like this one a whole heap better.
Hearing subtleties I didn’t know was there in stuff I’ve been listening to for over 30 years and I’m rediscovering WHY I liked my favourite albums with the new P10.
SO glad to have those albums I love on vinyl.

Musically it’s all out there, and interestingly doesn’t sound like Traditional vinyl reproduction, and not digital either.
Its something else, but whatever it is it’s all about the music, not the hifi, and it’s an absolute blast.
it’s going to get better as the carts fully running in too.

Tonight, listening to an old Lp of Karajan’s take on Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons, bought the record nearly 30 years ago when I was at College.
Cinemascope full colour reproduction in the room with you, massed strings, individually nuanced and tonally coloured are bouncing off the Venue walls, each section timbre and tone different, placed in this huge cavernous space behind my speakers.
Never heard anything sounding more “You are there in the venue” than this.

You can “feel” the musicians playing off each other, just how good the orchestra is playing as one and all the subtleties in between.

Its amazing, and WAY beyond what I was able to hear with my previous deck, great as that was.
The P10 is a wonderful way to experience the Life in music.

Fallen in love with vinyl again James, funny old road how I got here but hey...it’s all good.
A big punt, sure, but it’s all there in every note played and then some.

Happy chocolate button here, and grateful for what I have in this.

[Gazjam]

So uhm...yeah.
Enjoying vinyl again.

[Jimbo]

Thanks for the update mate. Interesting how your TT has gone to the extreme in low mass and produces such an amazing result. Just show how different ways of thinking can be so effective.