I will but you need to arrive 3 hours before anyone else to fine tune all my record playersOriginally Posted by Dominic Harper
Thanks David, your a true gent. Put myself and Natalie down for that please
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I will but you need to arrive 3 hours before anyone else to fine tune all my record playersThanks David, your a true gent. Put myself and Natalie down for that please
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And meThanks David, your a true gent. Put myself and Natalie down for that please
Of course the real star of the show on Saturday wasn't the Techy or your Garrard - it was Natalie's home-made leek and potato soup!!
Yum yum, mam, top scran!!
Marco.
Main System
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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Hi Dom,
Cheers, matey. I was pretty pleased with how the Techy performed in an alien system, but yours simply allowed it to sing!Thank you for the kind words Marco, but you forgot to mention how good the Techy was sounding. I was very impressed with it, especially with the Goldring G800!
I am wondering how far I can take these carts now. Ruby cantilever sounds intriguing!!!
I know that there's a good 20-25% more performance to come from my T/T when I get the Ortofon tonearm and SPU back, so I look forward to demonstrating that to you.
As for the G800, my goodness, what a stunning performance it put in, when fitted with your superb elliptical stylus. It just goes to show how inherently good its generator is. Like we concluded, thus equipped, it can compete with cartridges today at up to a grand, but without having their often bass-light and clinical sounding presentation.
Fitted with your elliptical stylus, it really doesn't sound like a typical MM cartridge, which are often rather either shut-in sounding or rough as dogs, due to having inferior styli and rather crude overall construction, and as a result, are often bandwidth limited. The G800, fitted with your elliptical stylus and nickel cantilever, has a musical poise and refinement about its sound that belies its humble origins. It will be very interesting comparing it with my SPU...
I've been listening to the G800 all day, and being thoroughly entertained in the process... As they say, 'I'm lovin' it'!
Snapper's re-tipped Troika was also rather special, and a real credit to your professional skills. More on that later....
Marco.
Main System
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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Thank you Natalie for taking the photos and Dom for posting them much appreciated.....back to the Formula One I go.....
Regards D S D L
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Daves bake off
Me and Steve too if space allows and its a saturday
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I'm Dominic.
To be honest Marco, the elliptical tip is only a small part of the upgrade. The most important aspect is the hand made nickel cantilever. This is the real secret to the performance upgrade. The nickel cantilever is a solid rod, 0.3mm diameter so same dimensions as a typical boron cantilever, not as flexible as hollow aluminium, but not quite as stiff as boron.
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Ah, nice one... Thanks for the clarification, Dom! Details now added in
Marco.
Main System
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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Originall posted by Mains Cables R Us
I'd like to come along too, if you've room for a small one. Hopefully Marco will have everything in place on the techy by then and Doms cart will have some decent hours on it (if he's willing to get that slate plinth over to yours) could be a stunning day.HTML Code:I have decided to have a bake off myself hopefully before Christmas
Regards
Greg
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I'm David.
Well after hearing it I want one. So my advice to anyone wanting a top bollox cartridge for beer money is buy one and send it to Dominic for his up-grade.
The sound improvement was simply startling.
Marco I expect you to get to the post office tomorrow a.m to post the cartridge please to the main man.
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No problemo, we can have a turntable bake off as I will have my 401 with SME 309 and my new cartridge, a brand spanking new 1210 with my new platter and Mk II PSU, I will ask Nick to bring his SP10 with hadcock arm, Dom's 401 if he can hire a team of horses to transport it down from Preston.
It's not on though unless Natalie brings some soup.
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