Brandy with your tunes

System edited: TD124 added to the idler collection, which for me is now complete. The 124 is a 1958 model and is very smooth sounding.

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The Summit

Dan, your new plinth is very nice indeed. The copper matt looks very striking with the wood. I've been looking for a copper matt, but still no luck. One day my timing will be right. How do you like...

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Brandy with your tunes

thanks Dan, it's just a hobby, (woodwork) and I have the benefit of being in the motorcycle painting business, so have access to all the nice clears, and colours.

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The Summit

very nice system Dan, I especially like your 401, very very nice!

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Brandy with your tunes

Thanks Zephyr, the amps are very well built, but in stock form looked a little boring to me. Everything was flat silver. But being 845 tube amps, sound quite nice. The preamp however is built like ...

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Brandy with your tunes

sorry, that's 2" platter

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Brandy with your tunes

System edited: New @" solid aluminum platter, built today and weighs in at 26 lbs. Sound seems to be more dynamic and deeper bass.

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Brandy with your tunes

System edited: newly finished Lenco L70 turntable just added to my stable of tables. It features a Padauk wood open plinth design with an SME 3014 arm and Ortofon SPU GM Mono cartridge.

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Brandy with your tunes

Thanks Dan, I really enjoy the DIY stuff. It makes the equipment seem a little more personal rather than generic. :)

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Brandy with your tunes

Thanks Dan, the Morel drivers are very nice. The speakers are really surprising for their size. The bass is unreal from these, and I actually returned them after I first bought them because they we...

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Brandy with your tunes

thanks Cymbop. The diffuser is built using 2 x 2"'s cut at random lengths from 1" to 4" long. I framed a piece of 3'8" plywood with 1x3" and laid the random pieces in on th...

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Brandy with your tunes

The ShengYa V518's have been sold and replaced with the GF RBS-1's. Not as efficient but sound a little more accurate to my ears.

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Brandy with your tunes

System edited: Extra turntables removed from system, as the 301 was the only one getting used and the IC's have been switched to Morrow's MA3's w/Eichman copper connectors. The cables made a big di...

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Brandy with your tunes

Thanks Jetrexpro, My son Dan works for me but doesn't have any interest in my audio hobby, so I'm left to build my plinths myself. I kind of like it that way. :)

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Brandy with your tunes

System edited: System setup revised to have my main tables all together.

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Brandy with your tunes

The AR/XA is now my dedicated mono table with an Ortofon SPU GM mono cartridge. Now I can understand what the mono fuss was about. I read in a forum some time ago, about how good a mono lp can soun...

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Brandy with your tunes

System edited: more changes! the Garrard 301 now has 2 arms, an Opera ST600 and a Clearaudio Satisfy. The Black Widow is back on the Opera table. (it sounds better on that one)

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Brandy with your tunes

Thanks very much Jond. Lol, the brandy is the color. Yes, I built the stands, it's my hobby, the upright are steel pipe with threaded rods inside. Then the pipes are filled with sand. The brass kno...

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Brandy with your tunes

System edited: pics of Garrard 301 updated. Finally finished the plinth. This is an open skeletal plinth. I will be building a mass loaded plinth as in order to do proper comparisons.

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Fairly simple, but pretty dialed in.

very nice clean system.

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Brandy with your tunes

thanks for that info. I actually made 2 leather mats today. A thin and thicker leather. The thin really brings out detail, but find I loose a bit of the "Garrard" sound. The thicker seems...

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Brandy with your tunes

Thanks Dan, the higher end Chinese gear is very well built, and the prices are on the affordable side. I've been very impressed with sound quality, as have others who have come for a listen. H...

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Brandy with your tunes

Black Widow arm moved to the Garrard 301 along with my Boheme high compliance cartridge.

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Brandy with your tunes

System edited: stand has been changed to allow for better space. Main turntable has had the Infinity Black widow arm added on.

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Brandy with your tunes

Thanks Glenhifi, You have a nice collection yourself. I spend a lot of time in this room as I'm not much for television. For a small room, it works quite nicely. The acoustics are surprisingly good...

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