There goes the new car

by darkmoebius on Ever Evolving
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Just sold my 2,60 sq. ft. home and now am temporarily in a 1,100 sq ft apartment. Looking for a large loft to finally have enough room for a true system.
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    • Scheu/Eurolab Premier
    Black acrylic
    • Cartridge Man Conductor
    Air bearing parallel tracking linear tonearm.
    • Scheu Tacco
    Scheu's statement arm, some German users have equated it with at least the lower Schroeder arms.
    • Grado The Statement
    The STATEMENT utilizes gold wire coils, a boron cantilever and a diamond cut specially for Grado. All this is hand-assembled within a machined Australian jara wood housing.
    • Cartridge Man Music Maker 3
    The 'MusicMaker' Phono Cartridge is a high-performance variable reluctance device, employing a proprietory extended contact diamond stylus.
    • Denon DL-103D
    Considered by many to be the ultimate of the 103 series. No longer produced.
    • Gram Slee Era Gold mkV
    phono preamp Gain - 41.5 db Input Sensitivity - 2mv to 9mv Input Impedance - 47k and 100pF
    • Gram Slee Elevator EXP
    "Transformerless" stepup MC amp Gain - 24 db Cartridge Loading - 23, 30, 100, 840, 1000, 5100, 47kHz
    • Museatex Bitstream Data II (2005)
    The Melior Bitstream™ Converter has two digital inputs, one fiber optic and one co-axial. Two independent digital sources can be connected to the unit. A front panel membrane switch allows you to choose between the two.
    • Meitner/Melior by Museatex CD-D
    Matching transport to the Museatex Bitstream Data II DAC I have
    • Stevens & Billington TX-102 mkIII
    Transformer Volume Control (TVC) w/ Seiden 20 step attenuator and selector switch.
    • Art Audio PX-25
    Transformer-coupled, zero-feedback, pure Class A triode stereo amplifier. Output Power 6 wpc. Frequency Response 9Hz to 60KHz full rated power. Tube Complement 2 x 6922/6DJ8, 2 x 12BH7, 2 x Mullard CV 378 rectifiers, 2 x KR PX-25 power triodes. This tube has a very similar midrange sound to the 2A3 but much more extended frequency extremes and a lot more power.
    • Welborne Labs DRD 300B
    300B Direct Reactance Drive (DRD)SET Monoblocks using TJ Mesh Plate 300B's and 6N1P driver stage. 7 watts per channel of glorious SET magic and drive.
    • Audion Sterling ETSE EL34 integrated (mkI)
    Class-A, 12 wpc EL34 SET amp. Frequency Response: 14Hz to 35kHz - 3dB. Tube Compliment: 2 x JJ/Tesla Teslovak EL34, cryo'd Russian 6H23n-EB/6922, cryo'd NOS 1950's Tung Sol 5687
    • Cain & Cain IM-Bens
    Fostex FE-168 Sigma 6
    • Cain & Cain Bailey(pair)
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    • Paradigm X-30 Subwoofer Crossover
    Built-in active low level high-pass filter Variable 35Hz – 150Hz, 3rd order 18 dB / octave Variable 0 – 180° Phase adjustment
    • Hafler DH-500
    255wpc classic monster amp from the days when Hafler actually owned and ran the company.
    • Cain & Cain Cryo'd Cardas Magnet Wire
    Nothing too special about the particular wire, but it is smooth and detailed sounding. Just plain natural without calling attention to itself.
    • Hammer Dynamics Super-12
    Heavily modified 12
    • DIY AC cord Bob Crump design
    Belden 19364 cable Schurter 4300.0603 IEC connector Pass & Seymour 5266-X thre prong plug
    • DIY Magnet Wire Litz (Super-12's)
    Hammer Dynamics recommended: Woofers(20ga.)- 10 strands of 30 gauge silver-plated copper solid-core wire with Tefzel insulation twisted into a Litz configuration. Tweeters: 4 strands of the same 30 ga. wire twisted in a Litz config.
    • Topaz 2.4kVA Ultra-Isolator Transformers
    I have six of these wired with balanced secondaries for greater noise rejection. One for both tube monoblocks. One for the subwoofer amp. And one for my dac(filtered) and turntable. Common Mode Noise Attenuation - 150dB @ 100kHZ Transverse Mode Noise Attenuation - 65dB @ 100kHZ

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nice pooches,mugs looks like my american female"aryan" its nice to see somebody else who hasnt fell for all the bad press about bullies,ive owned bulldogs my entire life & yours are some of the nicest ive seen,they must be lotsa fun.

our kids call our bulldog kitty beacuse she purrs when she breaths,even though mines a moose weighing in at around 100 lbs im always amazed at how gentel she can be with my children,she's not too smart but she sure is alot of fun.

mike.

bigjoe

u gotta love that bulldog,their great.

mike.

bigjoe

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