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Post by aleman100 on Mar 5, 2016 15:43:31 GMT
Hello all i have tinkered with hi fi from my teens have spent vast sums on hifi in previouse years not now as as wife children take priority budget hi fi can perform .very well.My music ranges from classical reggea jaz all kinds as well as soundtracks film and especialy manga.As iam also a member of the art of sound i will not bore with what i a have owned previously.My present gear is opp105d modded with additional power supply feeding a modified caman mk2 dac this has latest software chip and gfu mod replace main 10000 uf cap .The caiman is feeding a stereo coffee single input ldr preamp which in turn is feeding a modified bottlehead quicksand td3122 class d poweramp into 10 year old home made solo back horns fitted with lowther dx3 and rel storm mk2 subwoofer speaker cable 1mm solid core silver cable two 3 metre runs sheathed in teflon interconnects are 0.5mm solid core wbt ag connectors and oppo 105d has spdif 0.5 mm solid core also with wbt ag rca connectors. Caiman is also connected with solid core 1.mm silver wbt ag feeding bottlehead amplifier.Large amount of music on netgear server as well as cd,s and a cuople of hundred vinyl records .Pink triangle turntable ultracraft arm at moving col cart,linn sondek origianl in box pre any updates ie no electronoc speed control smoked lid and rega rb300 arm unmolested.Used to attend a lot of concertsas my daughter used to play small ensemble. My daughter played violin drums piano and also sang in choir etc my wife plays piano . Have been around music live and recorded for some time.Occasionaly they will both play at home but now my daughter is at university devotes litte time to music now.Hence recorded music has its uses.Cheers Alrick.
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Post by John on Mar 5, 2016 15:57:11 GMT
Welcome to TAS Alrick
Its a nice sounding system The Oppo is really good and a few people now use it as there main source, do use it as a Standard CD transport or are you using the USB input to play music
The mods to Caiman sound like they help are you using battery power and good isolation. Both help a bit
Love to have a picture of the horns
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 5, 2016 16:16:55 GMT
Hi and welcome to TAS! Interesting system. I wonder which Ultracraft arm do you have on the PT?
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Post by MartinT on Mar 5, 2016 16:57:34 GMT
Hi Alrick and welcome to TAS! I like your choice of 'budget' hi-fi and bet it sounds not-so-budget. The PT deck with Ultracraft arm is indeed interesting, as Chris has picked up on.
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 5, 2016 18:22:46 GMT
Hello Alrick
Welcome to TAS That sounds a great system. Above my head technically. I have the modded Caiman. Great little box
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Post by aleman100 on Mar 7, 2016 20:51:20 GMT
Thank you all for the welcome have posted occasionaly on the art of sound have been in conversation with stan with regard to further mods to the caimanmk2 would like to post some pictures but need help went to the help page could not undersatnd the process for posting pictures.Thanks Alrick.
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 7, 2016 22:52:25 GMT
Hi, Sorry that the guidance doesn't make it clear for you. OK, back to page one: Do you have your images on an image hosting website, such as Photobucket, Imageshack, Flickr or something similar? You'll need something like that to be able to post images here. I use Flickr mostly ( click here) - it's free and fairly easy to use.
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Post by aleman100 on Mar 8, 2016 15:55:02 GMT
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 8, 2016 19:15:35 GMT
I think you need to just post the link directly into the message box - don't use the 'Image' button in the controls.
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Post by aleman100 on Mar 8, 2016 23:20:11 GMT
Thanks Chris i hope this works if you can view the photos my system is on the photos as well as the mods done to ym caiman mk2 gfu mods done and main cap replaced with oscon cap bank in my system at least is essential .Reagrds ALRICin my system . www.flickr.com/photos/140802666@N07/shares/YH1JhW .
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Post by ChrisB on Mar 8, 2016 23:37:20 GMT
That works OK for me.
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