Big and Small (Altec A7 & Pionner Pure Malt)

by visiblehands on Ever Evolving
My Listening Room
My Listening Room
2008-03-28 16-30-02_0127
2008-03-28 16-30-23_0128
2008-03-28 16-37-13_0136

Description

My system consists are separately built for the two speakers, the Altec A7 and the Pioneer Pure Malt VP.

The A7 is driven by two amps, Audio Note 300B and custom built 6L6 push pull.

Pure Malt is driven by the Audio Note 300B only.
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    • Sony XA55ES
    Use as transport only.
    • Musical Fidelity A324
    Musical Fidelity A324 DAC. Nice power plant with an average chip. Still sounds nice after replacing the RCA input jacks and internal power cord.
    • Thorens TD-166 mkII
    It is a gift from a good audio friend (Rene Stock) and for that, I'm grateful. Two things must be removed to improve the sound: 1) the dust cover must be removed and 2) the bottom panel must also be removed. See Photo. I also rewired the internal cable. Next project would be the crappy power cable...
    • Theta Theta's ONLY tube Preamp
    The Preamp is heavily modified with a custom built separate power supply. Rewiring using Audio Note puer silver cable was done about a year ago and it sounds amazing!
    • Audio Note Kit 1 with upgrades
    Very nice sounding Amp. Note the 5th small transformer? Hard to believe it is a 5-7w output amp.
    • 6L6 push pull 6L6
    This is done by Daniel in Ontario. He made all my amps and preamps. Bartolucci transformer and Tamura Output transformer. No matter how good a push pull is, it can't beat the single-ended 300B. I use this to drive the 15inch + 18inch drivers.
    • Altec Lansing A7
    806A Horn Driver + 416A bass driver.
    • Audiosphere Research don't know ...
    I bought this pair from a second hand store in town. Not an Alnico driver as the density is not as good as the Altec 416A.
    • Audioquest Niagara
    Smooth and quiet. However, it could sound too laid back and too cold in some systems.
    • Pioneer Pure Malt VP
    One of the best budget speaker I've heard in years. The crossover is poorly designed and built. Good news for me! I decided against using Van Den Hul this time but for Monster (with silver strands) to put more

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David, nice to finally see your system online. It is still one of best tweaked and most carefully put together SET systems I heard to date - incredibly revealing, fast, detailed. Your Altecs are in a league of their own!

Looking forward to hear the Pioneers soon :)

Rene

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