Post by palace on Aug 3, 2024 11:33:29 GMT
ANALOGUE
Turntable
Transcriptors made Michell badged Hydraulic Reference, owned since 1973, 9mm duralumin arm board, 3 round oak cone feet, AC 250v motor converted to DC 12v Maxon motor
Hadcock GH242 Silver Plus arm, XTC Counterweight, Hana ML moving coil cartridge
Phono Stage
Silver wired Croft 3 valve running 2 x 6N2P EV OS + adapters & wired in 1 x 6N1P in a Vitale case, transformer changed to allow 6.3v as well as 12.6v & fitted with SUT's all by Mark Manwaring-White. Sitting on 4 x Stack Audio Auva 50's
Pre amplifier
Ming da MC7R highly modified by Mark Manwaring White (Malvern Audio Research) 2 x 12AX7/ECC83 replaced with 2 x 6SL7+ adapters & 2 x 12AU7/ECC82 replaced with 6SN7+ adapters, Sitting on 4 x Stack Audio Auva No1 EQ'S
Power Amplifier
Rogue Audio Titan Atlas Magnum 4 x KT 120's Audyn Reference Capacitors + Mills 1.0% resistors (Mark the Ming) External Audio Detail 6.3V PSU for 2 X 6SN7+ powered adapters with 6.3v transformer for heaters replacing 12AU7/ECC82 & 5755's + adapters (like 6SL7 on steroids) in adapters replacing 12AX7/ECC83 Sitting on 4 x Stack Audio Auva No2's
Cassette deck
Aiwa AD S 950
Tuners
Leak Troughline with mods by Tim de Paravicini + his stereo decoder
Meridian 104
John Linsley Hood design steel square aerial
DIGIITAL
DAC
Beresford Caiman SEG 50 super cap/clock mod's by Stan. Quality panel mount phono sockets wired by me + correct value ceramic fuse
Dorado III super capacitor power reserve, MCRU LPSU (Longdog)
TV Box
Virgin HD Tivo box linked to modem via CAT 8 with clip on ferrites replacing CAT 5. picture via HDMI with ferrites. Sound to DAC via Toslink optical.
Blu-ray Player
Sony 4K BDP S6700 HDMI to TV sound via co-ax
CD Players
Cambridge CD 4se used as transport via BNC via Webro CF100 CO-AX to "F" type fittings (75ohm) Sitting on 4x Stack Audio Auva 50's
Philips CD 104 (1984) with griplets fixed & No Over Sampling mod 44.1/14 bit with phono sockets
SPEAKERS
One Thing Audio rebuilt Quad 57's, on Rupert stands with Batpure super tweeters in the mouths of piezo horns. Standing on 4 x per stand (8 in total) Stack Audio Auva 70 feet
LEADS
Power Leads
10 gang power block, Phono stage, Pre-amp, Power amp, Tuner. OTA Quad 57's ESL Speakers HQ flexible silicon all spirally wrapped with copper foil grounded to 13amp plug earth pin then covered in expandable Braided Sleeving
Speaker leads
TNT UBYTE 2 cross connected WF100 co-ax I made now copper foil covered with sleeving
Phono leads
Arm to phono stage Cartridgeman 1mm conductor pure silver in air core CT100 co-ax with centre electrode removed that Len made me. Copper foil/mesh co-ax screen connected to earth pins on phono plug at one end.
All other phono leads 0.5 mm pure silver made by me. 2 TNT shoestring type's copper foil covered with expandable braided sleeving, the other CT100 co-ax types with centre electrode removed, copper foil/mesh connected to earth pins on phono cartridge's at one end.
Digital Leads
TV & Virgin cable, Blue-ray to DAC, CD to DAC are 1.5m WF100 co-ax with 75 ohm F type fittings I made. 2 x Toslink 2m XO cable.
All power leads festooned with 180 plus clip on ferrites. Because as below.
I live on a private estate in a top floor loft conversion flat on top of a hill, which is RF central, North is RAF Northolt airport, South is Ealing Town centre all buildings have communication transmitters ie Taxis' Police & Fire service, East are 5 tall mobile phone masts' West is Heathrow Airport.
Connect a lead with a capacitor in line to a system case then to earth the cap charges. Most of my neighbours in my block are computer professionals, there are mains linked bells etc. so noisy mains + a sprinkling of further phone masts' etc.
Last Edit: 03/08/2024 1212 by palace.