the Nest

by fullnine on Opinions Please

Description

I'm very happy with the system as is....BUT i'm always keeping an eye out for the next piece of the puzzle.

I'm considering a power supply for the turntable (VPI or other) and potentially a new amp. I'd like to try triodes. I'm looking for a stand/rack for the gear. Solid Steel probably.

I'm also going to build a set of open baffle speakers using Electro-Voice 12 inch full range drivers. But these will just be for "playing" as I'm sure my wife would not want them in our living room. Maybe a good excuse to set up another system in the basement!
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    • VPI Industries Scout
    Simple suspensionless belt drive.
    • VPI Industries VPI JMW-9
    Unipivot...I have four armwands for various carts.
    • Dynavector 17-D2 mkII
    Classic Dyna with diamond cantilever.
    • Audio Technica AT33-ev
    Latest in a long line of classics.
    • Zu/Denon DL-103
    Perfect dl-103 for lighter tonearms.
    • Shure M97he Encore
    The first cart I ever owned....with a newer cantilever/stylus...I keep it around for older abused records.
    • Eastern Electric Minimax Phono
    All tube, transformer inputs for MC.
    • Nelson Image SE-8
    Single-ended pentode integrated amplifier. 10 watts per channel. It is really just a power amp with a volume control and two switched inputs. There is no pre-amp to speak of.
    • ProAc Studio 140
    Two-way floorstanding. 91 db/w 8 Ohms.
    • Speltz Anti-IC
    with Eichmann Bullet Plugs
    • Speltz Anticables
    used in bare-wire configuration....no spades, bananas etc.
    • Stillpoints isolation cones.
    used under speakers.
    • IsoTek Sirius
    Power bar/conditioner.
    • Grant Fidelity PC 1.5
    power cable with built in RF filtering. Use them on TT and phono stage.
    • Pangea AC-9
    Power cables feeding the IsoTek power bar and amp.

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I realize it was three years ago that you posted about looking for another amplifier, possibly triodes. Don't know where you currently are in this madness we do, but I've found the greatest amplifier I've ever owned in the Clones Audio 25i integrated. It's 25w into 8 ohms and 50 into 4. Your speakers are 2db more efficient than mine. I've had tube amps from EAR, Kora and Dynaco. SS from Job (Goldmund), McCormack, a few digital amps and a battery amp from Red Wine. This Clones integrated is the most natural, organic and just plain REAL sounding amp of them all. It made every other amp sound like I was listening to HiFi.
Just had to let you know about this wonderful amp.

devilboy

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