My objective is to duplicate the sound of a good jazz venue as best I can. I'll never match it but getting close is fine. I've had various audio components through the years and tubes particularly DHT tubes/ASSET have gotten me the closest. So this is where I will settle down and appreciate.
Balanced AC power is fantastic !! 1800va balanced isolation transformer/conditioner. All aspects of music reproduction are improved for every single component.
Tripoint Tripoint Troy.
A wonderful grounding box component. When added to my system it increased the sense of natural sound quality and emotional engagement. The Troy has a humanistic and “soulful “ quality to it.
Coincident Speaker Tech Total eclipse 2
This wonderful speaker is transparent,open and involving. It`s large yet completely disappears as the source of sound within the room. Very easy to drive,94db and 14 0hm impedance (Minimum 10 ohm). I replaced the stock Solens capacitor with the Duelund CAST in the crossover.
Coincident Statement linestage
Superb performance. In my opinion , a masterpiece by Israel Blume. As would be expected, a wonderful match with its sibling the Frankenstein MK II.
Coincident Speaker Tech Frankenstein mark 2
A terrific 300b SET amplifier that is the foundation of my system. The EML XLS 300b tubes are a superb match with this amplifier.
Acquiring these 300b SET mono blocks changed the course of my music listening experience. They elevated the emotional engagement, tactility and “breath of life “ realism.
Yamamoto YDA-01
Wonderful music lover's DAC that has a very natural/organic sound quality. Duelund CAST addition(output coupling capacitors) makes it sound even better. It has a very minimalist circuit/design that was implemented well.
Ocellia Silver Reference IC
Very natural and pure sounding with excellent tone and timbre preservation.
Ocellia Silver Reference Speaker Cable
Same qualities/ comments as the IC.
Star Sound Technologies Sistrum Apprentice component platforms..
These Star Sound platforms are mandatory in my system. Effectively managing resonance and vibration leads to a very noticeable sound improvement with every component and especially the speakers. Excellent product.
High Fidelity CT1 Ultimate Digital cable
A highly impressive digital cable that mates beautifully into my system. Contributes to the natural sound presentation.
Pro-Ject Audio Systems CD Box RS2T
This is a superb Redbook CD playback transport. It’s both high resolution and impressively natural.
. I’m using the excellent Fidelizer Nikola II LPS. Splendid pairing.
Lavricables Grand and Master series Power Cables.
Pure silver wire and unshielded power cables. These are used with all of my audio components. They are very open, transparent, high resolution with beautiful natural tone and timbre presentation.
Abbas Esoteric Audio 3.2SE
Built by renown Ukrainian Abbas Zulfugarov. NOS DAC utilizing the classic Phillips TDA 1541 multi bit chip. Two 6080 tubes in the analog stage. 5 various rectifier tubes in the power supplies.
3 separate toroidal transformers (And 2 chokes ) for the power supplies.A very serious and successful upper tier DAC implementation. Using with the Abbas SPDIF and power cable.
Here's a CD that's light, smooth and jazzy. I really enjoy it. It's very well recorded with excellent sonic's. If you like the samples you can find on the internet I'm sure you will like: "Midnight Sugar" Yamamoto, Tsuyoshi Trio (A Hybrid Super Audio Disc, FIM)
Gentlemen, I also picked up "The Boss" by Seiichi Nakamura Quintet + 2 (Live in "5 Days in Jazz" 1974) that I'm really enjoying. It's a XRcd24. A little on the expensive side :-( but very dynamic and well recorder.
Charles, I purchased and have really enjoying: Tardo Hammer: Look Stop & Listen and Hammer Time. Bobby Broom: Plays for Monk Roni Ben-Hur Trio: Sofia's Butterfly. Thanks for the suggestions ;-)
Grannyring, If you should decide to try a different power cord I would recommend the HFC CT-1 power cord. I received a slightly used one yesterday and have been very impressed. It seems to do everything correctly and in my opinion, it competes with the big boy power cords. In the days when I had a CEC TL 2X (I agree with Acman3) I also had excellent results with the Stealth Varidig Sextet.
Hello Charles, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I lost track of your forum. I do like my Allnic T-1500 Integrated amp. I believe it has lived up to its reputation. Some critics say its a touch bass shy but personally I dont hear that using my Montana EPX speakers. Unfortunately in my area I dont have Audio stores or acquaintances where I can listen to other 300B amps to do a comparison. I own the following 300B tubes: Harmonix 300b EH, Psvane 300B BT, Shuguang Black Treasures 300B-Z, Sophia Electric Royal Princess 300B, Emission Labs 300B, and the Takalsuki TA 300B. My favorite 300B tube is also the Takalsuki TA.
Personally Charles, I like your pic's and the room ;-)! I had to laugh at that forward, bold comment. I would not want criticism of the looks of my music room located in my basement because it's sit up for (inexpensive) acoustics and not glamor.
I've tried to order through the Jac Music site very unsuccessfully on several attempts to order the AVVT 32b tubes you speak of. I follow their directions but I have never gotten a response from them??? Very frustrating!!! :-(
