Mika K's system

[walpurgis]

Nice, but 'no cigar'. The Garrard gets that.

[struth]

^Ha! Still waiting for the other tonearm to be mounted to my Garrard

Not many changes here during the summer. Tested new active Avantgarde Zero1 Pros but unfortunately they could not match to McIntosh/JBL combo have in the house. Sold my trusty Sansui TU-9500 to clear some space for the Ensemble phonostage as that was having quite tight space at the rack. Now can add there the A23 SUT also when needed. Also added proper spikes to the JBLs, that have also found their place at the listening room. Sounds pretty damn good if I may say so..



Have friends Thorens TD-850 there also as promise dto put that on sale after making sure it works ok. After that has been done there might be some space for some new stuff again.

Thats a lovely room Mika; I couldn't have done it better...just my taste.......fancy a house swap

[AlfaGTV]

Didn't see any dust Mika... Sorry..
Whats the cart on the Rega? Looks like a big ass Allaerts or similar?
Your'e using a Transfiguration on the SME/Garrard, right?
Very nice piccies as usual!

[Mika K]

Damn, I do not see the pic at all! I guess Flckr is having some sync issues again with my macbook

The cart on the Rega is Zu Audios improved DL-103 and as phonopre I use Technics SU-300MC headmp or A23 SUT with McIntosh MM-input. And the SME on Garrard is having T'fig Phoenix and phonopre is Ensemble Fonovivo with their own upgrade PSU.

[RochaCullen]

Hey Mika,

Do you know anything about JBL 4410 studio monitors and whether they are any good? There is a set for sale near me. They look like a pretty basic monitor from JBL.

Thanks,

Nathan

[Mika K]

I think I have heard those long time ago in some friends house but cannot say to have experience about those. What I've read good basic monitors without any special features. If they're cheap might be a lot of speaker for smaller rooms. As always with older speakers please remember to check the condition of the speakers as I think those might require new foams/surrouds for the cones.

[Macca]

Hey Mika,

Do you know anything about JBL 4410 studio monitors and whether they are any good? There is a set for sale near me. They look like a pretty basic monitor from JBL.

Thanks,

Nathan

http://www.stephenrklein.com/JBL_441...er_review.html

Snap them up like a snappy thing. Unless they are asking silly money.

[Mika K]

Last week sold the Thorens TD-850 and the Rega arm, and as a partial payment received sturdy japanese deck Sony PS-X75 with the controversial robot arm. Zu Audio cart works surprisingly well with this combination despite does not really challenge my Garrard with the treats. Still, I'm planning to keep the Sony for a while to play around a bit as really think have to have one DL-103 based cart in use. Keeping it, until I find the other japanese TT I'm actually looking for that it



Lately have been also trying to negotiate my trusty local carpenter to book some time for the renovation of my JBLs, and most likely at the same time will also try to upgrade the caps to the crossover as the original ones are already over 40 years old. Cannot really tell that from the sound as these are surprisingly modern in many ways. Better to safe than sorry still with these..

[Mika K]

Found it

It's large, heavy, beautiful and pretty rare at Europe. What is it? I'll come back to that perhaps later. Anyway the Sony TT has now been sold to a local guy replacing his old and bit worn Thorens and I have reserved my new pride and joy. Hopefully will get the thingie to Finland before christmas and have possibility to install minty Fidelity Research tonearm purchased to complete the system. Really have the hogh hopes on this one..

[Idlewithnodrive]

Ps-x9 ?

Tt8000 ?