Trade: Magna Audio
Location: The New Forest
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I'm Steve.
Update
Time moves on and I get bored.
After nearly 2 weeks I put the PL-71 arm back on again.
This arm definitely has it in terms of musicality. It will be on for quite a while now I think.
Fun thing is with all the TT stuff. My nearly 16yr old daughter wants one.
Well I have a Rega P3 / RB250 OL modded arm / AT MM cart all ready to go for her!
System: Turntable : SP10 MKII slate plinth, Custom Ebony tonearm board, Arm : Fidelity Research FR64s, Cartridge : SPU Royal N. SUT : Lundahl 1:13. Phonostage : Icon Audio, Streaming RPi/Kali reclocker -> I2S -> DSP XO / Pre / 4 DAC's : WAF Najda, 5 Poweramps : 3 x EL84 SET's, 2 x D class amps on bass channels, Speakers : 5 way front loaded horn system: 2 X Tapped sub 15" LF drivers / 2 X Exponential mid bass 15" drivers / Tractrix 200Hz mid horns with JBL2482's, / Tractrix 550Hz upper wooden horns with factory refurb'd Vitavox S2's / Raal Lazy Ribbons as high frequency tweeters. Wires: good silver or good copper where best suited. DIY RCM.
Maker of tonearm boards, armpods, Tannoy GRF style speaker cabinets, horn speakers, counterweights and more.
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
Hi Steve,
Nice to hear from you again
Now that is interesting, given all the 'hoo-hah' surrounding the Terminator. I still rate it as an excellent (although fugly, to my eyes) tonearm.
However, synergy wins the day again... The PL-71 and its stock arm were quite simply designed to be used together to form a 'musical whole'. With a turntable, just the same as anything else in hi-fi, it's the sum of the parts not the talents or otherwise of individual components that counts.
Incidentally, have you been following my Tannoy thread? Tomorrow I'll be posting the final thoughts on my journey and comparing Reds to Golds with stock and modified crossovers, which you may find interesting
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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The Terminator is reviewed in this months Hi Fi World.
Dave
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I'm Steve.
Nooooo, it's not ugly! It's fantastic, in a this-is-what-it-would-look-like-if-Brunel-made-a-tonearm kind of way.Originally Posted by Marco
Steve aka 'Twelvebears' (it's a long story)
System: Technics 1210 Mk5, Jelco 750 arm, AT33EV via MF X-LP2 Phono Stage, Oyaide mat and record clamp. SB Touch via Marantz PM-11S1 amp and Wilson Benesch A.C.T. speakers. Mark Grant cables and PS Audio Power Plant Premier mains regenerator.
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
LOL, Steve! I guess, as they they, beauty is in the eye of the beholder
This is my kind of 'sexy' tonearm (and deck!):
I hope to have one very like it soon.
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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Location: Banbury, Oxfordshire/Panteg is where my late father was born
Posts: 4,381
I'm Chris.
Hi Marco
You know you always were going to have an SP10 ' just look at it a piece of engineering art ' i am sure this would be the turntable ' Brunel ' may have wanted but i still find it a tricky choice between the SP10 mk2 and the LO7D ' then there is the P3 exclusive .
Chris
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Trade: Beresford Media & Electronics
Location: http://www.homehifi.co.uk
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I have always felt that the SP10 sounds its best with the matching Technics EPA-500 tonearm. I am not sure why most SP10 owners don't seem to have the EPA-500 fitted. If it is due to not being able to get hold of a EPA-500, just send me a PM. I got a few. And eBay prices are astronomical.
Stan
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Trade: Ammonite Acoustics
Location: Norwich
Posts: 2,810
I'm Hugo.
Oooh! A hammerite finished headshell! Very tastefulLOL, Steve! I guess, as they they, beauty is in the eye of the beholder
This is my kind of 'sexy' tonearm (and deck!):
I hope to have one very like it soon.
Marco.
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
Posts: 110,531
I'm AudioAl'sArbiterForPISHANTO.
LOL - Indeed
The Lumière cartridge fitted to it is 'not bad', though!
Have a look here:
http://twogoodears.blogspot.com/2008...inaire-or.html
Indeed. It is a rather special cartridge - and fitted to an equally rather special T/T and arm... but the above are only phisical trivia: what a cartridge like Lumiere DST gives to music is a sort of miracle!
Like an handmade instrument, it nears the listener to the music, letting music to flow in a freer than air way seldom experienced.
... and this makes me wonder: will a Lumiere be my very last cartridge? Who knows?!?
... but I got some spares, just in case... really, can't imagine myself without this relaxed, musical, transparent, soul-infused Sound.
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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Location: A Strangely Isolated Place in Suffolk with Far Away Trains Passing By...
Posts: 14,540
I'm David.
EPA-500? An EPA-150 would be nice for me, complete with mounting plate
I can't go on and I can't go back, I don't feel so matter of fact,
I tried and tried to make good sense, What's the good to try it all again?
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