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Post by jandl100 on Apr 3, 2015 8:10:29 GMT
Latest addition to my vintage collection, with many many thanks to a generous and kind Wammer JVC JRS200mk2 receiver.
She LIVES !!
Well, on headphones at least. On this cold and wet Easter Friday morning I finally got around to wiring her up to my cdp --- needed a bit of to&fro-ing on the sliders to get rid of some intermittency and crackle but now sounding mighty fine on the tumultuousness of Rachmaninov's 2nd symphony.
Coo - it's magnificent! Really taut and dynamic.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 3, 2015 8:52:13 GMT
Good news then! Looking a bit more closely at it, I'm actually quite surprised at how few gadgets it has onboard. OK, it has the little graphic eq panel but most of its competitors of the time displayed rather more 'gizmo festoonery'TM than that.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 3, 2015 10:02:30 GMT
I shall and I will!
EDIT: that seemed out of context! I meant come up and see Jerry.
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 3, 2015 17:01:30 GMT
I shall and I will! EDIT: that seemed out of context! I meant come up and see Jerry. Good-oh!
-- but you might have to fight your way in thru piles of vintage audio kit.
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Post by Eduardo Wobblechops on Apr 3, 2015 20:23:16 GMT
That's never a bad thing.. :-)
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 10, 2015 6:27:50 GMT
I saw this little valve pre in the Wam classifieds and thought "Yum, I'll have that". I've been thinking about getting a valve pre to complement my solid state Restek for quite a while, and Paul (Mr Whippy) writes a good line in sales patter. A Bottlehead "Quickie" battery powered valve pre-amp, DIY kit built. Inputs and outputs on the top panel, with the volume control a bit lost in the middle! .... very convenient ! And it's not exactly the tidiest setup I've ever seen. Ah, I see that I have failed to keep my blog up to date - I've been using for the past week or so a passive stepped attenuator pre from Hifi Hangar - their PSA02 - and very nicely transparent it is, too. That's it in the foreground. Postie arrived when I was part way through listening to a piece of music so I unpacked the wee beastie, paused the music, inserted the Quickie (that does sound rude) and pressed play. Whoops - it was like changing the MBLs into a horn design! - immediacy and dynamic contrast, the sound kind of exploded but in a good way! I'm seriously impressed by this pre, it puts the startle factor back into the music. On the downside, their is a slight loss in ultimate rez compared to the passive (and my active ss Restek pre), and very deep bass is just a tad lightweight. But hey, nothing is perfect and the Quickie seems to complement my Citation 12 power amp very nicely. Hopefully a deal is in the offing to obtain a valve power amp, that will be interesting.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Apr 10, 2015 7:15:30 GMT
Who's this other Mr Whippy chap?
He's an imposter!
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 10, 2015 18:34:16 GMT
I'll let you two fight it out - I must admit I'd assumed you were one and the same!
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 12, 2015 11:07:43 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Apr 12, 2015 11:50:04 GMT
Beard! Have you got it working for more than 24 hours continuously?
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 12, 2015 11:52:34 GMT
Hah! I think the P35 was more reliable than the big beasties.
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 12, 2015 16:52:29 GMT
It's been well fettled with much TLC and is said to be fine - been a few hours here now, and hasn't gone phut yet
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Post by MartinT on Apr 12, 2015 17:02:51 GMT
Great! Are they EL84s in there?
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 12, 2015 17:41:31 GMT
Yep. Lots of them!
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Post by MartinT on Apr 12, 2015 19:57:06 GMT
Thought they were. My all-time favourite sounding output valve.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2015 17:10:51 GMT
Reknowned in some parts of our little audiophile world as a boxswapper of some note, I have to confess that the swapping has slowed down a little of late.
Here's the current state of my system ....
And a close-up of my latest toy, it arrived last Saturday evening ....
.... and to say I am pleased with it would be a bit of an understatement.
A Ming Da MC368 BSE .... I've no idea what the letters stand for, but maybe the MC is mad cow. How do you dust? Look at all those wires!
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 19, 2015 17:58:06 GMT
Dust? I don't usually bother. Wires? -- you can't have too many wires. Wires are good, like ducks and the occasional frog.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 7:09:23 GMT
Dust? I don't usually bother. Wires? -- you can't have too many wires. Wires are good, like ducks and the occasional frog. In the April 2015 'Record Collector', the importance of dust is explained in an article.
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Post by jandl100 on Apr 28, 2015 7:40:14 GMT
New speakers! -- sorry the room's a bit of a mess -- tidiness fetishists look away now. No, the MBLs are going nowhere, this is in a 2nd system elsewhere Magneplanar 1.6QR ribbons. Five and a half feet tall, 20 inches wide, 2 inches deep. Really, really pleased with the sound. High rez. The Maggies are very widely spaced indeed so as to not interrupt the view, but it works just fine. Amazing wall of sound, but with quite precise imaging. They do have something of a rep for being a challenge to drive, but my 70wpc Sony FB-940R drives them with no problems. I do need to sort out some new speaker cables - my old ones have to stretch across the carpet to reach the R speaker. As luck would have it I have an unused 6m length of Cable Talk 3 - that will do nicely. I'll want to get some thin material to cover them with - the grey really doesn't go in that room. Something "oatmeal" maybe. No real deep bass, but down into the upper and mid bass they do just fine. Previous owner had a sub with them, but I think they'll do OK for me on their own. Yum.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 28, 2015 7:54:37 GMT
Nice! Have you ever tried any Maggies before Jerry? I've heard them sounding good several times and like them a lot for what they do well.
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