Great stuff - I'll dig my diary out and send a few dates.Originally Posted by Marco
Love the view, Jerry! Quality
PM me with a few dates, convenient for you, and we'll rearrange the sesh we had planned
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Great stuff - I'll dig my diary out and send a few dates.Love the view, Jerry! Quality
PM me with a few dates, convenient for you, and we'll rearrange the sesh we had planned
Marco.
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Hi Jerry,
Sent you a pm regards your Chameleon Ruby amp.
Thanks;
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New toy!
System as is today ....
New toy close-up ...
And a couple of AOSers were kind enough to come a-visiting today. Good time - good company, good music.
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Great sesh yesterday, Jerry! Nice seeing you again and really enjoyed listening to your system - especially your superb MBLs!
Good choice of choons, too - liked all the stuff you played. Do you remember most of it? A playlist would be good, so I can compile a shopping list
Nice munchies too, so thanks for that. Nice to meet your good lady as well. I think she made a good job of the gardening! Anyway, you'd both be welcome to pop round to our place anytime, so give us a shout next time you're in the area
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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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Thanks Marco, it was very nice seeing you and the friend who may not wish to be named. Lots of interesting music!
Yeah, the MBLs aren't too shabby, are they. Quite possibly the perfect speaker for me.
Yesterday's playlist --- oo-err --- from my collection ---
The Essential Dougie McClean
Philip Glass Akhnaten
Nazareth "Hair of the Dog"
The Buggles "Age of Plastic"
Elizabeth Valletti - Innocenti
Eddy Louiss - Sang Mele (Blues for Klook)
Caroline Lavelle - Brilliant Midnight
Shostakovich Piano Trio
Perotin Beata viscera (the girl in the cathedral in the rain)
Loreena McKennit Nights from the Alhambra DVD live concert
Yello Touch - virtual concert DVD & CD
--- I may have missed some
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Nice one, Jerry. What about the blues dude, Marvyn Taylor, or something? That was top notch!
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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New toy!
System as is today ....
And a couple of AOSers were kind enough to come a-visiting today. Good time - good company, good music.
Thanks for having us round, really enjoyed the visit, system was sounding excellent.
Thanks Marco, it was very nice seeing you and the friend who may not wish to be named. Lots of interesting music!
Yeah, the MBLs aren't too shabby, are they. Quite possibly the perfect speaker for me.
Yesterday's playlist --- oo-err --- from my collection ---
--- I may have missed some
Mervyn/Marvyn Taylor?
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Of course! How could I forget introducing you to a great guitarist!
Melvin Taylor & the Slack Band
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Ta Jerry. Great guitarist indeed.
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Magnetic levitation - aka Floating on the Flux
A recent eBay purchase - 4 footers with opposed magnets which allow kit to literally float on air.
See details and review here http://www.stereotimes.com/acc083109.shtml
I got heavy duty ones, designed to support 5-8Kg per footer.
Under my vintage Techie cdp they didn't do much really. And I had to weight the CDP down or the player wasn't heavy enough to push the top magnet down!
There's not enough shelf headroom for them placed under my Mingy Dah valve amp, so that was a no-goer, too.
But a couple of days ago the Minging One was set aside as I felt a sandy urge and my NAD S300 amp was re-installed.
It floats perfectly on 3 of the footers.
Look closely at the footer on the left in the next pic and you can see a small gap between top and bottom parts - that's the air the amp is floating on - amazing!
Lightly touch the amp and it rocks.
Just floating on air, man, floating on air.
OK - the internals of the footer have to be exerting lateral pressure and touching, but it must be very well isolated from shelf borne vibration.
Soundwise, unlike the Techie cdp I hear a big improvement with the amp. Imaging is way more 3D and err, hanging in space - like the amp! Everything sounds a lot more real and present and solidly grounded. There's a more subtle and detailed portrayal of small scale dynamic changes. Dare I say that it makes the NAD sound a lot more like a valve amp?
Although why it seems to have an effect on kit without moving parts (the amp) but little or none on a wildly vibrating CD spinner is a matter worthy of some thought!
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