I have moved from an apartment to a house! The larger room and vaulted ceiling really let my diy speakers shine. The low frequency of these speakers is finally realized. I still need a new rack... Everything else is pretty much unchanged though I have the parts for a pair of pass diy Aleph 5 monos which will hopefully provide a pleasing alternative to my Arc.
Pearl MM phonostage with optional MC boards. I have also added Lundhal MC step up transformers to the MM stage with great results. I have come to prefer the MM +SUT. Great sounding diy project. The power supply is the box on the bottom.
Slim Devices SB3
Great little device!
Audio Sector NON-OS
Non-oversampling dac with a passive i/v output stage. This dac uses Black Gate caps, Caddock resistors and other premium parts throughout. Great sound!
Tube Cad Journal Aikido 9-pin
Noval triode preamp with TubeCad Janus tube regulated power supply. This pre uses 6CG7s and 6DJ8s. It is wired up with Wonder Wire and Dale resistors. The output caps are Hovland film/foil.
Audio Research D-125
Big heavy ARC fitted with 6550EH tubes. When I got this amp, I replaced the power supply caps with high grade Conner-Dubliner computer grade caps (4 x 450V 850uF)I wanted to use 450V 3100uF but the 850uFs were the largest value that I could fit in the chassis!
DIY Eton/Accuton
Big floorstanding MTM's with Eton 7-372EH's and Accuton C23-6's. Wrapped in Santos Rosewood veneer with cocobolo trim. Internal wire is 11.5awg Cardas for the woofers and the connection between the binding posts and the x-over. The tweeters use 15.5awg Cardas. The x-over is a fairly simple 2nd order butterworth using Hovland caps (series), Solen caps (parallel), 12awg Alphacore inductors in the woofer section, 14awg Alphacore inductors in the tweeter section and mills resistors in the impedance compensation circuit for the woofers. There are no series resistors in the signal path- the tweeters and woofers are run full up.
Cardas DIY DIY
Cardas two conductor shielded wire with SLVR rca terminations.
Kimber 8TC
Great cable. Not really thinking about upgrading any time soon.
VPI 16.5
Vacuum record cleaning station, overflow vinyl storage and my other hobby- all stored in my office.
ZU DL-103
This is one of the new ZU modified dl-103 carts. I really like this cart, but I think that it is not the best match for my arm.
DIY Rack
My new diy rack is now in my system. The top portion is a sandbox which is spiked and sitting on aluminum squares on top of the main rack.
Nice System...I am thinking of purchasing a Nottingham Space Deck/Ace Space Arm. Do you feel that the Nottingham lacks deep bass? Can you play Rock on it and be satisfied with the bass?....thanks, Chris
