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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Yup, a classic, just like the 1541
Modern DAC chips sound clinical and soulless in comparison!
Marco.
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: Yorks
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'TDA1540' is 14-bit DAC chip, sounds great, your right, i dislike modern DAC's aswell..
I'm gonna be playing about with a late 80's Techy 'SL-P770' 18 Bit/4x CDP this weekend see how it compares to the old '1540' machines. I wanted a 'SL-P1000' but this came up minto & cheap, i hope it don't sound sound too ace cos i'd hate to be in the Techy club
You guys have such incredible rose tinted specs it amazes me
Those early Philips/Marantz machines gave me a headache and a Nakamichi cassette recording of discs played on these always sounded better I recall. The better ones (I liked the Mission DAD7000, B&O CDX and Meridian MCD Pro, which I owned) have balls, but no subtlety at all, no "space" and little "air" I found.
The nicest of the earliest players was actually the Sony CDP-101 for me. This player of all of them seems to have stood the tests of time sonically, although it's still rather flat in perspectives. The CDP-502 and 505 which followed very soon after were rather superior I remember.
So there!
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Location: Yorks
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Your right with the 'DAD7000' & 'CDP-101'.. Classics.. I bid on at least four 'CDP-101' this year, geez they fetch quite a bit of cutter mi bruvver..Thing is it doesnt stop there you need to be changing out the obsolete servo amps which will knock you back another £100.00.
'CDP-302ES', 'CDP-502ES', CDP-552ESD' are all nice machines..as is the 'DAS-703ES' DAC..Even the 'CDP-102' was a good un.
however the Marantz 'CD73' don't give me headache!
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thank you for the invite....I was just passing by and the Marantz cd7 was in my search criteria....I have been in the hobby for some time and the TDA 1541 was always my favorite to go back to, even after all the Krell,Accuphase,Wadia,Theta etc experimentations...
where does the cd-17 ki, fit in the scheme of things?
Location: vancouver,bc
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these guys have all the Marantz info :
http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/mar...7mk2_cdplayer/