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  4. Your audio equipment?

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    On 9/28/2023 at 9:01 AM, jazzbo said:

    You're going to love that amp more and more each day. I do mine!

    Lon,

     

    YOU are correct in so many ways. At only maybe 17 of these out and about I am glad I went with my audio gut and moved mountains to get this amplifier. My audio life has and will never be the same again in the best possible ways imaginable.  I've been meaning to reach out and I will through an email soon to possibly exchanges numbers if you'd like. 

     

    Charlie

  6. Your audio equipment?

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    Posted · Edited by charlieboy

    GPA 604-8H-III
    GPA N604-8C Crossover
    John Anderson Stonhenge 5 Cabinets in American Walnut
    James Burgess 45 tube amp
    Audio-GD HE-1 MKII
    Schitt Loki Maxx
    HiFi Rose RS150B DAC
    Technics SP-10, ATP arm, Denon carts
    Teac A-3340 S Reel to Reel
    SVS subwoofers

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  8. Your audio equipment?

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    Posted · Edited by charlieboy

    On 3/12/2022 at 10:48 AM, JSngry said:

    Do you ever play them all at once, just to see what strange mysterious results would happen?

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    No I doubt it would be very pleasant. One mono, and one stereo is all. :)

    On 3/25/2022 at 0:05 AM, mjazzg said:

    You think he/she actually plays them?

    I/he do/does.

     

  13. Your audio equipment?

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    All done and setup... I have wanted to do one of these correctly for a long time. A Technics SP10 MKII that has received the Krebs treatment, DAS dual arm plinth, Fidelity Research FR24 MKII 9", Jelco TK-950L MKII 12", Sph copper mat and record stabilizer. Ortofon and Audio Technica carts. Time for a listen tonight hopefully.

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  14. Your audio equipment?

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    A few pics of late including new restored Thornes TD124 TT. STS serviced with upgrades including a rewired and serviced Ortofon RMG-212 tonearm. A new idler wheel from AudioSilente of Italy. A WoodSong Audio thrust bearing kit with an 8mm thick bronze cap, a 6mm thick Torlon thrust pad, and a Grade 5 sapphire ball bearing. An MK2 conversion kit with the Hanze Hi-Fi Motor Spring Suspension kit is also installed. In this conversion, the 3 motor suspension mount studs of the MK1 motor, are replaced with longer motor suspension studs to give more motor suspension travel as well as allowing installation of the Hanze HiFi motor spring suspension system which reduces motor noise into the chassis by -16db over the standard double polymer bushing design which is still installed on most TD124’s. SPH copper mat copper record stabilizer, and Waynes outer ring round things out.

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  18. Your audio equipment?

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    Greg Metz STS modified Thorens TD124 MKII in custom plinth, with an Alfred Bokrand Custom Ortofon Tonearm mounted on a black sourced armboard, with a beloved brand new NOS Ortofon SPU Royal A cartridge, topped off with Nordost Quattro-fil phono cable.

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  21. Your audio equipment?

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    The tubes are EL84/6BQ5.

     

    I lost track if my dear friend Eddie Vaughn about 13 years ago and after several attempts over the years I could never make contact with him. I saw an obituary in 2015 for an Eddie Vaughn in Arkansas where he was from. It’s been on my mind for some time and I recently was able to acquire an original Carina amp he had built as I always wanted one. That's why I put up with the shipping mishap and will be keeping it even though up close it has seen many many better days, but as it now just has another chapter to the story of me trying to track one down it will remain here with me.

  22. Your audio equipment?

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    After over 10 years this happened. Someone reached out to me with a Carina. I was very happy until it arrived and it was the worst packing job I have ever seem (From the UPS store mind you). The seller wasn't comfortable packing it but UPS was not the answer in this case. After going through it the last two days I have it as presentable as it's going to get. From far away it's okay but up close it's a mess on the sides and front and one of the tranny bells is dented ever so slightly but I am keeping it. It sounds really great so far but will get a good going through soon. 

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  25. Your audio equipment?

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    1 hour ago, bresna said:

    Are you arguing semantics now? You're using alternate terms for the same item. Belt drive = turntable. Idler drive = turntable. Direct drive = turntable. Same thing with all those tube names. No matter the tube, they're all just "amps".

    I have been at this a long time and I have heard many of these variants, both in turntable technology as well as amp technology. I have had and used a belt drive and a direct drive turntable. I chose to stick with one (direct drive). I have used solid state & tube amplification and when I was using tubes, I tried EL34, KT88 & 6L6 output tubes with a wide variety of input tubes. I now have a solid state. I have sat and listened at length to someone's 300B tube amp as well (not worth the money in to my ears).

    I see no reason to keep around every variation of audio reproduction nor would I see any benefit doing this since I already decided which one was the best for me.

    The way I see it, you're just continuing to muddy the waters for yourself. Next thing you know, you'll have to set up this decoder ring... lets see, to listen to this Music Matters LP of Soul Station, I need to use the belt drive turntable with the carbon fiber tonearm and the high-output moving coil cartridge, played back through the tube phono preamp to the solid state preamplifier to the EL84B tube amplifier, but I have to swap the Bugle Boy 12AX7's with RCA greyplate 12AX7s, and oh wait, this only sounds good with the handmade speakers in the other room but those require those Shinyata wires. Oh wait, I forgot that I have to swap those preamp to amp interconnects to those Audioquest silver ones.

    The permutations go on & on... why do that to yourself?

    Thank you for sharing your opinions. It’s what makes this all interesting and fun (for me at least). Being “at this” for a bit as you have been is great but I’m not sure what it means. BTW I’m not “arguing” as you referred about anything. Just conversing. 

    43 minutes ago, Dmitry said:

    Yes. Tis any impressive set-up that probably requires a part-time technician/curator to keep up and going. By far not the most expensive collection of components I've ever seen, but I applaud the effort. I have a decent stereo, and probably a couple of thousand LPs and CDs. Some people are gearheads, others enjoy and understand music, rarely the two are joined in perfect equilibrium.  Maybe charleyboy's got a lot of albums too...I hope.

    My only constructive critique is the blue lighting underneath the listening chairs...c'mon, man. 

    The theater chairs are no longer there so no blue lights but they did make nice lighting for movie watching which I almost never do anymore. :). BTW Roughly 10,000 lp’s mostly jazz, blues and classical. 

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