Time tested spinner of tunes-embedded vinyl...work in process!
Minus K Isolation
Vibration Isolation for Turntables 2x Micro Seiki
Rockport Technologies System 3 Sirius
Floating saucer
Studer A810 Recorder/Reproducer
Just plain cool and a fine way to handle the Tapes. However, when recording me and my trusty guitar, I just sound deliriously worse than ever, but with much more detail!
dCS Puccinni
Spinning along those silver disks...
SRA CRAZ 2 reference isoRACK
Doublewide in the Sapele finish...thank you, Kevin and Tim
SRA Virginia Class Amplifier Stands
Amp Stands...very nice and a wonderful way to modulate the vibrations
Transparent Reference MM2
Speaker Cable
Wilson Audio Alexandria X-2
Mama's favorite in Desert Silver, however still rolling around on the casters
Wilson Audio Alexandria X-2 Back
Rear Connectors
Artificial Mice, random layout that changes daily
They are very helpful and necessary for chasing down and negating the ever moving standing waves.
Hope all is well with you and that you are continuing to enjoy the music through what is a stellar line up of equipment. How are the latest additions settling in?
We really enjoyed having you here visiting with us and as I mentioned above to Syntax, it was a real pleasure having both of you fine gentlemen here visiting with us here in Texas.
I am happy to hear that you are safely back in San Francisco; have a safe and uneventful flight back home to Germany tomorrow! I hope that the sound plugs will be able to diminish the audible distortions floating around you (where are those standing waves when you really need them...;-)...) and therefore you will be able to enhance your sleeping experience.
D., thank you again for utilizing your talents bringing into forefront the very positive systematic gestalt capabilities that enhance the audio chain. Again, thanks for having the specific items manufactured for building-up the Micro Seike system! The double platter, IMHO, brings the Micro Seike capabilities up to another level. I have found that you are true gentleman and an unique source of stellar components of the highest quality.
Most of all, we enjoyed getting to spend time with you and continuing to build on our ongoing friendship!
Have a safe and quite flight back home, and with fate permitting, we will see you again next month!
We were very happy to have you visiting with us these past few days. It was a real joy to be able share such quality time with real quality gentlemen! Thank you again for taking the wonderful pictures and bringing your delightful sense of humor to Texas!
The system is very happy and flowing with such great ease and is resonating as a synergistic chain. Thank you again for your well thoughtout observations and solutions. You are a man of much patience along with being one of the good ones!
Look forward to seeing you again, my friend...have a safe flight back home tomorrow!
Dear Alan, greetings from San Francisco (rainy right now ...;-( ... ). We sure had a great time at your place and this was the kind of "audiophile meeting" which got to the real core of the game - real music, intelligent exchange of ideas and taste, successful search for the better results, great food and outstanding wine. Looking forward meeting you again in a few weeks. Best, D.
Yes, a nice ice cube metaphor! An over abundance of solid particles laid out in bits can be disruptive to the flow! :-)
Next week should be a fun endeavor; I am looking forward to getting a chance to share your investment along the analog learning curve. Regarding the matching of the Olympos with the FR-66s, yes, yes, and yes! J Carr was kind enough to share with me some insights that really helped with enhancing the setup and performance with the Olympos and the tonearm on the Rockport. Also, the Olympos really was happy having an appropriately matched chain that allowed for the necessary headroom to get out of the way of the dynamic flow.
The FR1-mk3 with the Ultimate Q4 stylus will be a nice complement with the Rockport's linear tracker. It will be a nice mix of direct (Rockport) and string (MS SX-8000 and RX-3000) driven modalities working as a platform for some delicious new analog machines...it will be a lot of fun mixing the FR-7f and the Takeda San Miyabi cartridges with the additional FR-66s and 64s silver wired tonearms. However, I am still patiently waiting for the visit of a Graham Phanton ll Supreme.
hm, you are right. Comparing Analog/Digital is like having a shower with millions of little ice cubes instead of fresh water. But to get an analog chain right is quite a task, but I am sure, we'll get it to a real interesting level at your place. Thanks for your kind invitation to listen to it. Will come. Listening to your real world top class amplification will be very interesting with these units. Using the 3000 as an inertia unit will show some interesting results...stay tuned. Btw. when you have some time, try to listen to Olympos with FR-66s. Faster than a shadow in the reproduction with the dynamic control like nothing else out there...
Interesting question. When I found myself getting back into audio five years ago, I picked up a dCS machine and enjoyed it very much. A couple of years ago I upgraded to the Puccini; I found it to be a nice and transparent player. If I was not jumping back into vinyl with both feet, I would have kept that player in the mix.
However, I do find myself preferring spending the available time listening to vinyl...so, for me it is a choice of changing disks. So, I recently sold the Puccini to a nice chap and I have been building up a different frontend mix.
There are a few new items coming together here over the next couple of weeks. The two Minus-K platforms arrived yesterday. They will be supporting the Micro Seiki SX-8000 and the incoming RX-3000 turntables...here I am left with direct and string driven opportunities :-)
Yes, after the next two months my audio wish list will be fortunately and unexpectedly completed with the help and encouragement of friends. I am starting to move some fine pieces of kit to make room for this setup. There is still the amalgamation of of all of the classic/new components that are coming into the mix at hand...Takeda San Miyabi Standard w/Ultimate Q4 stylus from the master and MCA, FR-1Mk3 w/Ultimate Q4 stylus cartridges...original silver wired FR-66s, Telos, and Bavarian tonearms...Omnigon...MS SX-RY 5500 along with the modified MS SX 8000 TT and modified MS RX 3000 TT as a spinner/inertia units...Minus-K platforms... a mono cartridge...that and realizing explaining to my wife that it was all necessary will be futile :-) The Rockport Sirius 3, FR-7f, FR-66s, Lyra Olympos SL, Lammies, and Wilson speakers will be staying. Now off to finding more source material, yes!
Congratulations (and WOW), on your stewardship of the Rockport TT. A great turntable like that is an end of the road product that will bring you years of enjoyment I am sure.
I think that by year's end it might be time to move this system to the "All Out Assault" category, the evolution will be well and truly complete I suspect.
Thank you for your kind remarks regarding my system :-) Audio is a small world...Mike was very gracious and extended an invitation to hear his wonderful system and room, over approximately a three-day period, about two years ago.
Your table was prominently featured :-) I fully expect you will derive immense satisfaction from being the newest Sirius III custodian!
When you get to Bavaria, maybe you can say "hello" to Thuchan for my spouse and me!
Hi Aaron, Thank you for kind comments. I do like your setup and the wonderful choices that you made. What a stellar selection of front-end components that are sitting confidently in your listening environment.
I have not had a chance to listen with the SGR Audio active speakers, but I have heard nice comments about their performance. I have been intrigued with the transducer utilizing an active-amplification process. It must be a lifelike presentation that presents as a whole, congratulations!
Like yourself, I am appreciating and loving the wonderful work that Dietrich is able to bring into the forefront with his modifications and reworking of classic products along with his thoughtful new creations for this hobby of ours. He does exhibit a passion of looking for workable solutions within the presentation of recorded music.
For now, my next big step is finalizing the building-up of the MS SX-8000 and getting a chance to listen to the Fidelity Research combo. I do have a couple of additional tonearms that will be arriving in the next month or two that will help host a couple of additional cartridges to the mix. That and cooking the cables...I hear that it is magical!
I am really kind of eclectic with my listening preferences...man, I just love listening to the music!
Hello Jfrech, thank you for your kind comments. I believe that the Rockport is closer to you and Albert than you realize :-)
Like yourself, I do enjoy matching the Wilsons with the Transparent Cable. You are a very sensible man to have matched-up the Wilsons with the marvelous and additionally Texas-friendly Ayre MXR amplifiers...and you live in Austin to boot!
Hi T Bone, nice to hear from you. You do have a wonderful collection of spinners along with a really nice assortment of cartridges!
It appears, outside of both of us having one of Mike's previous TT's, that we do have a few additional shared listening preferences. BTW, which of the Dobbins masterpieces did you end up with getting from Mike?
There have been a few feeble excuses, on my end, of little consequence that have been getting in my way with building-up my MS SX-8000; it is the same hammer-tone blue color as your MS SX-8000. For now, it is sitting at the top of the my list of audio items to hop on getting completed...soon! I kept changing my mind on how I would like to move forward; fortunately, I have finally made the remaining decisions. There are a few modifications being done in Bavaria for the SX-8000 and the inertia unit. I am hoping to be able to get a chance soon to fire it up with the FR-66s and FR-7f combination. I also am going to be adding a minus-k isolation base for the turntable and the inertia unit.
unoear on Ever Evolving