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After 20+ years, I'm still working on it.
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    • Galibier Design Gavia
    With Stelvio armboard. Exquisite.
    • Triplanar Mk. VII/Ultimate
    Adjustments galore
    • Mark Kelly Synchrotron AC-1 motor controller
    superior AC turntable motor control
    • Lyra Skala
    LOMC
    • Audio Technica Japan 33PTG
    nice MC - easily betters the DL103 family, imho for about the same cash
    • Denon DL-103
    simple, conical, musical, cheap
    • K&K Phono Stage - Maxxed Out
    hybrid phono stage with Lundahl LL1931 SUTs ,Cardas parafeed caps and Audio Note tantalum resistors
    • Coincident Speaker Technology Total Eclipse
    Big air movers...
    • Slagle AVC
    2 dB/step autoformer volume control with 23 position Shallco dual deck remote controlled switch. Copper wired
    • Bent Audio Stevens & Billington TX-103
    Copper version of this by now legendary step-up transformer. Set for 20dB of gain, this is a keeper and sets a reference for its class.
    • David Berning Co ZH-270
    nice
    • David Berning Co EA-2100
    This amp will drive anything, and sounds great. Several modifications carried out brings this amp up many notches...
    • David Berning Co EA-230
    classic 30wpc David Berning design
    • Ric Cummings/Argent Audio Pursang S
    fine silver interconnects.
    • Chimera Labs Advantage II
    Dennis Boyle handcrafts one of the best copper interconnects made. Superb wires.
    • Gabriel Gold Revelation
    1 meter alloy cable.
    • Crystal Clear Audio Master Class Biwire
    solid core silver wrapped in cotton dielectric. WBT spades
    • Porter Ports 20A
    Hubbel cryogenically treated hospital grade outlet
    • Dynaco FM-3
    Classic vacuum tube unit
    • Maple and Brass Big-n-Heavy
    4 shelf design in the Flexy tradition, executed with the highest possible quality materials - solid 3/4" brass rod, all brass hardware, 2" think solid maple shelves, internally threaded Audio Points for the floor interface
    • Audio Points various
    mechanical diodes? nice cones? either way, they are very effective.
    • JVC XL-Z1050TN
    Quite modified - the analog output stage has been bypassed, with the DAC directly driving the outputs via a single capacitor. Power supply has been rebuilt and modified; chassis strengthened and damped. I still find this unit to be one of the most musically satisfying CDPs I've heard in its price class.

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Hi Richard, I hope to see pics of the new digs soon!

dan_ed