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    • Oracle Audio Technologies Delphi mkIII
    Refurbished in 2021. Upgraded to the mk vi motor. Installed the MVSS system.
    • DACT CT100 phono preamp
    With a pair of CT102 power supplies
    • Bastanis Speakers Dual 12" widebanders,
    Originally a Prometheus single. Added a pair of 12" widebanders, a pair of 15" subwoofers to the 12" subwoofers from the Prometheus.
    • Moerch UP-4 red tonearm
    • Audio Technica Art 9xa Phono cartridge
    • Supratek Audio DHT /6SN7 Preamp
    Running National Union 45's and RCA 6sn7's
    • Sparkler Audio Ballad CD player
    With USB DAC input
    • DejaVu 300b PP dual mono amplifier
    • Sonore Optical rendu
    • Deja Vu Audio 300b SET mono blocks
    Magnequest silver output transformers
    • Monarchy Audio SM70 Pair driving 15" subwoofers
    • Grapevine audio Monoblocks driving 12" subwoofers
    Custom design by Dwight Maxwell
    • Dayton Audio DSP-408
    4 inputs from Supratek, 6 outputs to each amp
    • Core Power Technologies Equi=Core 1800 mkii

Comments 6

Owner
Thanks gryphongryph. What DHT tubes are you running? I've settled for 45s. I have 7N7s in the 6SN7 circuit. Are you outputing both circuits? In my system, the 6SN7 circuit is driving the subs and the 45s are driving the open baffles.

tubes4good

Looks like a very impressive system, I noticed the Supratek, good choice, I have the same model😜
I run it with a class A solid state and BBC speakers

gryphongryph

Owner
Thanks @pdspiegel The Bastanis were sold back in the day as kits. Buy the drivers, caps, and resistors. Build the baffles and subwoofer enclosures. That model has changed. In 2021, I knocked over a baffle and broke a 12 driver. Contacted Robert for a replacement. The new 12" full ranger sounded much better than the model I had purchased 15 years earlier. Then I purchased two 15" subwoofer drivers and found a carpenter in Baltimore to build them. Later, I bought another pair of 12". My Baltimore arrpenter built new baffles. Now the only original pieces are the two 12" subwoofers, the tweeters, and the tweeters horns. They are 100 db efficient and I'm supremely happy. Yes, it's taken months to dial in the four subs.

tubes4good

Very cool and unique system!  I am not familiar with Bastanis speakers but you have a large room where you can provide enough space for the no baffle design to work well.  I also like the PP 300b amp.  I too have  a PP DHT (2A3) amp that I enjoy very much.
Are you running two pairs of subwoofers?  If so, wow!  That must have taken some time to get dialed properly.
Enjoy!

pdspiegel

Owner
Thanks much. The plexiglass preamp cover has a ventilation hole above each tube. I had it custom made by the same company that sells the cover for the turntable.

tubes4good

Nice system and killer amp love Deja Vu Audio gear. Does that plexiglass cover on your preamp have ventilation? Really cool system and definitely something different!

jond

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