This system is very close to Lugnut's--same speakers, slighly newer amps, his hand me down Waconda pre-amp. I don't have the same turntable horsepower though. My MMF-7 is a big step up from a B&O 2400 (circa 1978)though. I am very happy with the MMF-7. The CD will be upgraded with a Pioneer DV-588A DVD/SACD/CD/mp3 player in a week or so.
Your system sounds and looks very good. I also was impressed with the bang for the buck offered by the MMF-7. Kind of envious of your amps in that they have much more headroom than my LK-100's.
Bill's challenge was to achieve a high WAF, resonable room integration, ease of use, long equipment life and musicality. He's achieved all of this in spades, IMO. All of the components are easy on the eye and don't draw attention to themselves. The room is cool in that it's large and doesn't represent many challenges acoustically, is very comfortable and for critical listening is easy to make just a couple of changes allowing for such.
As for LUGNUT ROYALTIES I'm the one indebted to Bill. He's been a faithful friend for over 45 years. Oh, the stories I could tell.....concerts, riding dirt bikes, crazy parties, camping, fishing (my fly fishing mentor), hunting (I'm lousy, he's a master), sharing of a love for music and just being together doing what friends do. Bill has endured two battles I've had with cancer and is fearless with me in what lies ahead. He comes over every Wednesday evening just to spend time with me. He's taken on the job of spraying my yard for weeds, the house for ants and has offered to do any little project I can no longer do for myself. If I needed help at 3 am he'd be there in a heartbeat.
Glad to see you've posted your system Bill. Now, post the photos.
The Nitty Gritty is a record cleaning machine. With mine, you have to manually apply the record cleaning fluid. Nitty Gritty makes nicer machines that are more automatic as the price goes up. I use Audio Intelligent cleaning fluids. The machine and cleaning fluids make a tremendous difference in how vinyl sounds.
Lugnut got a copy of Neil Young's Greatest Hits for his royalty. He's happy.
I really like the way the system sounds. I am especially happy with the MMF-7 turntable. Its reasonably priced, extremely easy to set up and sounds good. It isn't a Sondek though. Besides sounding good, I like the Linn electronics because they are small and don't generate much heat. The amps also have a sleep feature so I don't fell bad about leaving them on.
The Pioneer DVD/CD player just got here and I need to go play with it.
