Show us Your Kit!

25 quid, that's the way to do it. Enjoy.

 

First Post... My Kit!

Here's my gear:

LP12 (Akito 2 / Cirkus / Adikt / Valhalla)
Rega Cursa 3
Rega Exons
Rega Saturn
Thiel cs2.2

 

Is anybody still looking at this thread?

My Kit is nearly all self built. So here goes for anyone interested.

Thanks to Nelson Pass and his sidekick Wayne Colburn I have built the following with lots of help,

Aleph Pearl phono stage
Aleph X-Ono phono stage (2)
Aleph P line stage pre (2)
Aleph J pwr amp
First Watt F4 pwr amps/bridged

Speakers are 2 way bass reflex with B&G and Eton units

Transrotor Iron turntable
Oracle Delphi 4 turntable with SME 345 arm
Graham Phantom 4 tonearm
Yota tonearm
Decca unipivot (quite old but good)

Denon 103G and 103R cartridges
Benz Micro Ruby cartridge
Koetsu Black cartridge
MFSL Carbon C3.5 cartridge

Proceed Mk 3 CD player
Proceed DAC
Wadia dock with 3 iPod classic 160gig

Cadas balanced interconnects and speaker cable
Cadas Gold phonocables

 

My loft setup:

Meadowlark Audio Kestrel Hot Rod speakers
Bel Canto S300iUSB Amplifier
Bel Canto DAC3
Denon DVD-A11 (used as a CD transport into the DAC)
Samsung BDC-8900M Blu-ray player/500GB HDD recorder/HD Freeview Tuner
Samsung UE32B6000 32 inch LED TV
Trichord Research 500 mains filter

Various other tweaky bits and cables

 

My system today

 

As it stands on 6th November...





Thorens TD150 Mk1/SME 3009 II (non-improved)/Audio Note IQ3
Edwards Audio MM1 phonostage
Squeezebox 3
Exposure XXIRC pre-amp
Exposure Super XVIII mono's
Royd Merlins

Cables:

Pre-power: NVA Soundpipe
Phono & SB3: NVA Soundcords
Speakers: Avondale Black Link

 

Hi Richard,,

Weren't you playing with a Techie again recently?

 

I was indeed Rob.

Sadly it's had to go. Why? I've had to spend out more than planned on some work I've had to do on my motorbike (it's my only transport, now we're living in the sticks, until we get a 2nd car) and my clarinets are in desperate need of an overhaul. I'd set myself some cash aside to start modding the Technics but that's all pretty much gone. I know the Tecchy can be made seriously good, it's just that I don't have the cash to throw at it now - out of the box it's a fairly decent turntable but...

...as standard the Thorens sounds a lot better - it needs a bit of work doing on the arm to get it to 100%; the pillar bearing needs replacing or adjusting - Johnnie's having a look at it for me. Once it's done it'll be as good as, probably better than new once the 45 yr old wiring's been replaced too. Then we'll sit down and have a look at further options.

I still want that P9....who knows, perhaps Lefty may sell me his P7 when he gets his 9

 

How do the exons get along with the Thiels?

 

Couple more pics of my baby Thorens...







The arm's finally off to Johnnie next monday for bearing adjustment and re-wire.

 

It's lovely, but that Technics headshell just looks so, so wrong on a SME 3009!

Tony.

 

It does - only thing is that, strangely, it sounds better than the Sumiko HS12 and I don't have an SME shell.

 

I think you can get SPU style black shells. Those would also look good.

 

So after years and years of changes I think it is time to show the actual situation over here:



On the right the digital part
- Metronome-Technologie Kalista Reference
- C2A signature (DAC). On top of the DAC a HRS damping plate.

On the left
- AAS Turntable
- Aesthetix IO signature phono preamplifier with 1 power suply
- Aesthetix Callisto Eclipse preamplifier with 2 power supliers


View from top. Notice the E-trap (Bagend) low on the right set for 30 Hz.


The Aesthetix units are on the HRS Nimbus system and have a HRS damping plate on top.


The Metronome-Technologie Kalista CD transporter


The AAS turntable is on the Finite-Elemente Cerabase. The motor is from Feickert, the Mozart arm was made in Serbia and the cartridge is Clearaudio Goldfinger. HRS record clamp.


The subs 2 x 2 12" are driven from a Krell FPB700cx (2009) with a active crossover of Nestorovic Labs NL-12.


Tube power amplifier Nestorovic Labs NA-1 (150 W) modified with StealthCaps and Charcroft CAR resistors in the line path. HRS damping plates on top.





Cables
IC from source to pre: Audioquest diamond Hyperlitz X2 XLR
IC from pre to NA-1 (satellites): WSS platin line XLR
IC from pre to Krell (crossover / subs): WSS platin line
Loudspeaker cables: Fadel Art Goldline Coherence

Racks: Finite-Elemente Pagode Master Reference, on Cerabase

Others
- Acoustic treatments coordinated by the best professionals available in Switzerland
- VPI 17 Pro
- Acoustic Revive RL-30
- Nespa professional
- Art du Son for CD
- Art du Son for LP

 

Very nice. Thanks for sharing Titian.

 

Updates:

I've sold the Rotel, DL-110 and Marantz.
So the 2 systems are :

1. Rock - RB250 - Goldring 1042 into Copland CSA-14 to Castle Howards.

1a. I also feed the output from a Western Digital HDTV into the Copland for FLAC and MP3.

2. PC. - 1453 NOS DAC - Topping TP20 T-Amp - Castle Richmonds.

the Denon Minidisk is now gathering dust.

 

Current set-up

Naim 552 with two E.A.R. 509(2) monoblocks feeding pair of ProAc Response 4s and Senn. HD650 via Naim Headline.

Sources: Orbe/SME Five (to be upgraded shortly) plus K.Urushi into Superline
/Supercap etc.
Meridian GO8 CDP
Naim 01 tuner
TV
Cables Hiline, Chord Anthem, Signature and Indigo I/Cs with (currently
redundant) NACA 5 and Chord Odyssey 2 speaker lead.
RCM VPI 16.5

 

Just added a Squeezebox Touch.

 

Is the wdtv live any good?