AC POWER
Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
AMPS
Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
SPEAKERS
Wharfedale Evo 4.4
DAC
PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
TURNTABLE
Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
PHONOSTAGE
Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
DIGITAL
OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
MUSIC PLAYBACK
Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
Ipad Roon Remote.
Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
SPEAKER CABLES
Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
INTERCONNECTS
All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Location: London/Durham
Posts: 6,869
I'm Lawrence.
Was there a "brake" or did you have to wait for it to slow down? Actually scratch that, I think you could turn round 180 degs and thrust then slowed you down. I remember shooting across the screen and appearing at the other side several times at wild angles before hitting something.
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Yes, if you thrusted you just kept going even when you came off the power just like in real space. Stopping was usually only achieved by colliding with an asteroid and dying so it was only used in extremis. And hyperspace would put you somewhere random on the screen, usually inside an asteroid with the same result. It was also common to hit thrust by accident whilst panicking in a tricky situation.
I got pretty good at Space Invaders and Galaxians, 10p would last me an hour on them but I was never rich enough to be able to afford to get good at Asteroids.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
'Scramble' was my other fave from that era although I only once got past the cave level and then died immediately. That was another expensive game to learn. The home computer versions were all too easy by comparison.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
Location: London/Durham
Posts: 6,869
I'm Lawrence.
My favourite early game was I think called Rommel's Revenge with 3d wireframe graphics, I think you just had two handles, forward and back for the left and right tracks, and a fire button.
Edit: It was battlezone, and called Rommel's revenge on home computers.
My favourite. "hi res" later game (still early for these days) was 1942.
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Remember 'Lunar Lander'? What a rip off that was. It was 20p a go not 10p and you basically had to be able to fly a real lunar lander if you wanted to last more than 5 seconds. And the console was massive as well, took up half the arcade. I never saw anyone land the thing. I saw one bloke one time who managed to control it for about half a minute or so and we thought he was going to do it, but then he lost it and crashed.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
My mate’s got an actual original Asteroids arcade machine (and a stock of old style 10p’s!) and correct Macca, only buttons. Probably worth a pretty penny now, he bought it for nothing from an arcade in Norfolk in the early 90’s. My other mate got Galaxians (I think) - I was too tight at the time to buy one!
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Main System: Digital: HP Laptop/M2Tech Hiface/Logitech Media Server/FLAC; Marantz SA7001 KI Signature SACD Player and other digital stuff into Gatorised Beresford Caiman DAC Vinyl: Garrard 401/SME 3009 SII Improved/Sumiko HS/Nagaoka MP-30
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Lucky man. I have a mate who is into pinball machines mainly but had an eye on the whole scene and he reckoned three grand for a good condition original working console, varies a bit depending on the game.
He's got 4 pinball machines in his dining room and 3 more in one of the bedrooms. Not married ofc.
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
I uaed to love Defender, the noises were fantastic . Trying to save all the men and going into hyperspace . Great!
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