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Value system. Amp and CD player purchased new. Speakers from Audiogon. A great system for acoustic, vocal, jazz, blues. Classical is ok--detailed and dynamic, but lacks scale. You just need a 'big' system and room to do justice to classical. Would like to experiment with tubes, but that gets expensive. Would really like to swap the speakers for something at the next level to see what that does for the overall sound.

Have also taken advantage of the digital input on the Cambridge 840c. Use an Apple Airport Express (and iTunes) to stream music to the 840c thus utilizing the high-quality DAC. Mainly use this for Internet radio, but also WAV file playback. Great way to combine today's convenience with hi-fi.
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    • Cambridge Audio 840c
    Upsamples. Digital in and out.
    • Prima Luna Dialogue One
    Integrated tube amp. point to point wiring. soft start. adaptive auto bias. Triode and Ultralinear (38wpc). EL34's stock. Have tried SED Winged C 6550's
    • Vienna Acoustics Mozart
    2.5 way floor stand
    • Blue Jeans Cable Belden 5T00UP
    Locking bananas to spades single run (spkrs don't support bi-wire). 10 AWG.
    • Blue Jeans Cable Belden LC-1
    3 ft length. Capacitance s 12.2 pF/ft. Uses a heavy double-braid shield, with one bare copper braid laid directly over another for extreme high coverage and high conductivity to ground; this is the identical shield configuration to Canare LV-77S

Comments 3

You have an excellent value system, I recently built myself a budget system revolving around the Totem Hawks, and the Rega Mira 3. I am using the same Blue Jean Belden cables as you are(but upgrading to Totem sinews and trees).

I store all my PC using FLAC format (My PC is used as the control center). It is just so convenient. I am searching for a quality DAC at the moment.

I am a classical music nut, since I listen mostly to chamber music, my current system does the job very well. But when I play orchestral, my system's many deficiencies are revealed. But the sound is still more than good enough to be enjoyable.

scott3709938

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System edited: added cable descriptions

scetes

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System edited: added comments on use of Apple Airport Express

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