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Naim CDX

Omiga Audio Din/RCA interconnect with Eichmann bullet plugs

Densen Beat B200 pre

Chord Anthem inteconnect

Densen Beat B300 XS power

All the above supported by a 4-tier Quadraspire Reference table; top shelf under the CDX in acrylic, the rest in satin black MDF

Naim Naca5 cables 2 x 2.5m

Rega Naos speakers on Mana Sound Bases

Mains leads by Music Works

Mains Block also by Music Works supported by a Quadraspire Reference shelf.

Rega Ear (Mk1) sitting precariously on the spacer shelf between pre and power, Sennheiser HD600 heaphones.

 

Unpacked just last night, FINALLY, after 6 months boxed up due to moving house & renovations....



Ignore the pink curtains - they're from the last occupant of this house, and are on their swift way out.......


Marantz CD-67SE
QED digital cable
TAG McLaren DAC20
Van Den Hul The First Ultimate
Primare A30.1
Kimber 8TC
Monitor Audio Gold Reference 20
Atacama Equinox rack

Next upgrades being considered:
1) More Kimber 8TC, or 4TC for shotgunning.
2) I'm ITCHING to demo a Chord DAC64!!
3) Norah Bones to bounce up and down on me in time to the music. I predict this will greatly heighten the aural pleasure I experience whilst a CD is playing.

 

Heh, I think you spelled it wrong.

Dunc

 

Depends on where you'd like her to use her tounge/mouth on you! I guess whispering sweet nothings wasn't necessarily the main train of thought here then?

 

Well, I was referring to the aural pleasure received from the music playing of course!

And the bouncing part was DEFINITELY the main train of thought..

 

Yes, it would be quite difficult to whisper sweet nothings to someone you were in the process of bouncing up and down upon... I think my train of thought would be much better served by such activity.

Dunc

 

Steven,
I have a CDX in a non naim system and use doctored Naim interconnects, I prefered these to a set of Nordost Blue heaven's.How do you find the cables you are using? have you tried Naim interconnects? I find them more musical.

 

:duck:

 

Latest updates.

CD player: Marantz CD6000 OSE LE
DAC: Cambridge Audio DACMagic 1
Amp: Marantz PM6010OSE
Premap ROTEL 870BX (used for turntable preamp and was used for a switch until I got my dac)
Tuner: Sony ST SE300 (soon to be sold)
TV: 21" Philips NICAM in silver body.
Freeview: Philips ST1500 reciever
DVD: Compacks DVD5000
VCR: Toshiba Nicam VCR
Turntable: Project Dubut II
Headphones: Philips HP890
Speakers: Eltax Monitor III's
Shelf: Home made TNT flexy

parents system:

Sony CDP XE530 cd player
YAMAHA turntbale (faulty wiring in arm)
Marantz PM4000 amp
JPW 310i Speakers
(this was my system four years ago apart from the turntable)

Sisters system

Late 1970's early 80's Pioneer amp, can't rememeber the model but is 80WPC into 8ohm, its very powerful.

Cambridge Audio CD32 (also plays MP3s )
Nikko midi sized tuner from around 1976
I can't even remember what make her cassete deck is now

Pioneer mini system speakers

 

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

not in this thread :argue: :NADowner:

 

Quite. If anyone wants to have a cable discussion (afterall, we haven't had one for, oooohhh, about 3 days now ) then please start another thread.

Actually, that goes for discussing anything in this thread really. I starts to lose its purpose if every "what I've got" post has a 50 post discussion following it .

Michael.

 

finally just about finished. very happy with the way things are sounding now. i just have a few items left to sort out, namely power conditioning. there is definitely a huge amount of mains noise in central london.

currently consists of:

wadia 301

eastern electric minimax

vac auricle mkii

thiel cs 1.6

power cables are 2/3rds nordost shiva (to be completed)

and interconnects are RS audio silver

was thinking about russ andrews purifier / super purifier
and then i need to upgrade the speaker cables which are currently old monster cable (not sure which ones, doesn't say on the cables othere than that they are OFC but at least 15 years old)

 

Just an updated photo of my system. I have compressed and scaled it down for all you 56k users

 

I sold my Quadraspire Q4 2 days ago.
(I thought, what's the use of having a 4-tier rack when I actually only use 2 components.)

I found this old AV-table that I bought many years ago, which was only doing duty in my computer-room, stuffing piles of HiFi-magazines.

So, I've gone back to basics now.
It doesn't get more 'keep it simple' than this...



Sonneteer Campion & Naim CDX (on 'masterbase' isolation blocks)

regards,
Alco

 

Since I did so much complaining about my room and speaker choices, I thought I's show you a few pics of my Audio Physic solution...

Bruce

 

Oops, that's never going to work, how do you all get these things down to 20K without making them miniscule?

 

Increase the compression. The other option is to host the image on another site and then link to it.

Michael.

 

PTA
Hadcock 228E
Ort Rohmann
LFD MC1
MF Synthesis amp
Dynaudio 1.8 speakers (short lengths of thick mains cable speaker cable)
Stax 1980's monster CDP

I aslo have some 211 power amps looking for a pre amp. Any suggs?

 

Hi Johnbo,


Ive got a few suggestions


Why not start a new thread?

Cheers
Chris