sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Posted new pics of the Vandersteens in-room and the rack with the VAC preamp. Still need fresh pics of the Ayre DAC and Ekorness Stressless chairs that replaced the sofa.

posted 10 months ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Moving on from my Denafrips Pontus II. Awaiting arrival of an Ayre Acoustics QB-9 DSD TWENTY. A step towards well known synergies between Vandersteen/Audioquest/Ayre/Audio Research.

posted 11 months ago

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Music Room - Could be…. Anywhere…

@noromance This rig sounds so natural! The analog setup unflappable, heard mostly w/ the Kuzma cart. No aspect of the sonics jump out as overly prominent, #goldi...

posted about 1 year ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Finally found new speakers. A mint pair of Vandersteen 5As will be arriving soon from Ultra Fidelis. I'm excited.

posted over 1 year ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

New VAC preamp with phono pics added.

posted about 2 years ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Recently added a VAC Renaissance Mark V preamp with phono stage and external power supply. Enjoying it, especially the benefits of a good tube phono stage. I've run into issues with RFI with p...

posted about 2 years ago

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Tannoy & VAC in an old-world loft

Love your rig and your nuanced observations that feed it! How's the power amp ss-power/tube-pre thinking evolving? When we chatted about my entry into VAC world, we never discussed that, but I...

posted about 2 years ago

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jl1ny's System

Hey, if you're serious about the BAT, let me know. Cheers,Spencer

posted about 2 years ago

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j_husker's System

Beautiful room, Jamie! Let's see some pics of the new table...I've got an Audiomods arm too; mine's a Series V. If you've the 6, love to hear about it especially.

posted about 2 years ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

My wife handmade the "tiny VPI" copying the one I had. Platter spins, arm moves too, haha.

posted about 2 years ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@bslon the VPI has been gone for over over 8 years. I upgraded to a Technics SP10mkII that I ran for 3-4yrs. Sold the hole analog rig to a friend as I embarked o...

posted about 2 years ago

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bslon's System

Well done, Bill! I used to own Aerial 7s, so I can only imagine how great the 7Ts are. Dying to hear the 9.0X some day. That's on my short wishlist. Love t...

posted about 2 years ago

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SpiritofRadio Analogue

I've got The Sota spikes sitting on Walker Audio lead/brass discs to accept the sharp points. Just using the Walkers because I had them. Those are on a DIY maple inlaid slab that was made as an amp...

posted about 2 years ago

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SpiritofRadio Analogue

Time for those photos, James, including the LPs!

posted about 2 years ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

@edsel95 Thank you. More wood now...just built some DIY cable lifters. Adding pics soon. Some will debate the merits of such a project, but at a ...

posted about 2 years ago

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Deja Vu all over again!

A system worthy of a great audiogoner! Genius choices for a smaller room. Cheer, Jon.Spencer

posted about 2 years ago

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Slaw...

Love it, Steve!We gotta talk vinyl cleaning one day. It looks like a vinylstack is used with your US machine...that's what I use...followed by some DIY hacked rinses/vacuum. 

posted about 2 years ago

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edsel95's Music Room System

Very nice rig and beautiful room, enjoy @edsel95 Cheers,Spencer

posted over 2 years ago

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Main System

Hi @no_regrets, popped over here after reading your post about the Wavestream. Did that replace the Artemis? I have heard so little about Wavestream in the last ...

posted over 2 years ago

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jjss49's System

Boy, I bet you have a lot of fun in there! Well done. Cheers,Spencer

posted over 2 years ago

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tomic601's Vintage System

@tomic601 Jim, is this where the B&O is going?

posted over 2 years ago

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sbank's Austin City Within Limits

Added NOS Tel Wire HC Cord power cable on the Krell amp, Cord PCs on preamp and DAC and Connect XLRs from phono stage to preamp.

posted over 2 years ago

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jl1ny's System

Wonderful system! Enjoying your networking thread which led me here. Cheers!

posted over 2 years ago

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Music Room - Could be…. Anywhere…

@tomic601 I recall you selling that one to your buddy. For some reason, I was thinking you have another with a 4Point arm.

posted almost 3 years ago

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Music Room - Could be…. Anywhere…

@tomic601 Among the loveliest of rigs in the loveliest of rooms. Is that the Kuzma in the VTA pic?

posted almost 3 years ago

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