psf4972's System

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Decca SC4E Aquilar Tonearm
Decca SC4E Aquilar Tonearm
Aquilar Tonearm Platine Verdier Teres Reference II DC motor, battery mylar tape drive
TD 124 MKI Permali wood plinth unfinished bronze armboard Alfred Bokrand tonearm
painted Permali plinth - excavated (!) with pillar drill
Abbas Audio RIAA Phono stage (x2)EL84's (x2)EF86 (x1)EZ80
Audion TVC preamplifier from underneath
Yamamoto A 06 3 SET 4w +4w
Yamamoto A 06 3 underside
Loth X Troubadour full range single driver folded horn (Rehdeko 115 at R)
Loth X Troubadour full range single driver folded horn (same Stephan Stamm (Berlin) driver as for larger Polaris model); (painted same colour as room)
Abbas DAC 2.4SE
Abbas DAC 2.4SE
Abbas DAC 2.4SE
Abbas DAC 2.4SE
Abbas DAC 2.4SE
Abbas DAC 2.4SE
Marantz 10b FM tuner
Sparkler Audio S 507 CD transport
Sparkler Audio S 507 CD transport
Fidelity Audio CD transport modifications: PRO 2 V2 P/S, C5 Signature Clock v1.2 & X2 clock regulator
Abbas Hephaestus dual mono RIAA

Description

Verdier La Platine (Manuf: A 23) Teres Ref DC motor, battery & tape drive, Decca SC4E w/ Paratrace. Aquilar tonearm.  

Thorens TD124 (rebuilt by Woodsong)

Abbas Audio RIAA Phono stage  (x2)EL84 (x2)EF86 (x1)EZ80

Abbas Audio DAC 2.4SE

Audion TVC Preamp copper transformers silver wired

Yamamoto A 06-3 SET.

Marantz 10b tuner

Sparkler Audio S507 CD transport with Fidelity Audio (UK) CD transport modifications:

PRO 2 V2 Power supply, C5 Signature Clock v1.2 & X2 clock regulator (sounds like analogue device, rich deep huge sound, no digital edge)



Ocellia silver IC's and tonearm cable / Auditorium 23 IC & SC.

Loth X Troubadour full-range single driver horn loudspeakers (driver as for Polaris).

KEF KC62 sub


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Room Details

Dimensions: 16’ × 13’  Medium
Ceiling: 10’

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    @vsrrr. I replied on yr. system page w/ message re: Abbas DAC

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    honeyooi thank you. your system must sound sweet. Robert Flack LP "First Take" is special !

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    jond Thank you. After ten years, the Yamamoto is staying, forever!  It presents wide open sweet and dynamic music. I just tried an Enleum 23r and Pass Labs XA25. Not sure what all the fuss is over a (beautiful physically small) headphone amp for loudspeakers. Its small compressed sound didn't work for me. The XA25 has great bass, information and dynamics, but in my system, insufficient sparkle of life in music.

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    Owner
    The DAC produces beautiful rich music with proper dynamics and no digital artefacts. I have his RIAA which seems beyond compare. Enjoy.

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    Owner
    Jeff, I replaced the original output caps with AN copper mylar of same value. Immediately more transparent, open, less veiled and musically right. A friend with your amp replaced O/P and other caps, in the power supply, but Duelunds not AN's. He thought the differences were subtle. In my system the modification worked well and I am happy with the result. good luck.

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    Owner
    ......Audio Note copper mylar caps transferred to output stage of SET. Wow!

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    Owner
    Separate RIAA stage gives a little more, and TVC lowers noise floor by degrees, (cant count the number !) so more detail and air. (Croft w/ stepped attenuator (Takman carbons & 2W Audio Note Tantalums) blows sound cleanly wide open compared w/ Alps RK50. So the Croft delivers nearly as much as present units, perhaps a little more scale and impact. Being short of space, I am in downsize mode. I'm satisfied with present balance of system: delighted by LP's I previously thought dull.

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    Thank you. Just one; a Nelson Pass First Watt J2 (solid state) loaned by a composer friend. The J2 sounds VVG, it separated and layered information, and eased the sharp burrs of the SET, yet in doing this, it held back a little too much life, air and inter-resonation of instruments. In my set up, my SET conveys notably more of the open, natural, dynamic energy of music. I read there may be more of a "Triode quality" in the First Watt SIT3 or F8, that might give me more of a balance of the qualities I enjoy but I have yet to try.

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    Owner
    Favourite? - full range single driver horn loudspeakers for purity of tone and startling transparency, with straight wire connection from SET to drivers (removed internal speaker wire and gold plated brass binding posts from both enclosure rears and drivers) and for a different time of day; ESL57's for magical surround sound sonority at low volumes.

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