Had an education that involved tons of live musical experiences. My interest for HiFi was spawned when I tweaked my first turntable at the age of 12 or 13. Had to make it less susceptible to vibrations, so I made my own floating suspension using rubber bands. At 14, did I got my first "real" amp. A set of Luxman C12 and M12. The source came to be a STD 305M turntable, which I still have. The arm then, was a SME 3009 Series II. Today it has a Series III arm instead with an Ortofon MC20II. The amp drove a set of Kef Carlton for some years, but a kit of Trapez speakers invaded the house. In between experiences has included Linsley Hood class A DIY amps, and Apogee DIY's. The first CD was a Philips CD200. They lived until the foam selfdestructed due to age. I used a fridge size SUB containing a 15" JBL driver until my son killed the driver. The Trapez were replaced by a set of Bowers & Wilkins CD1's. The old Luxman became a frequent guest at the kitchen table trying to clean pot's and switches until replacing it with Holfi Pre8/Power8 amp set. The CD200 was replaced by a Musical Fidelity X-Ray 8 years ago, and has now been replaced by SB3,X-DACv3,X-PSUv3. Speakers were replaced by a set of Martin Logan Aerius i's about 6 years ago.
Cables has been a mix of DIY's and stuff. Currently, the interconnects is Supra ISL's, and the speakercables are MIT's. The room is about 4.30 cm wide and 6.30 cm long. Speakers are positioned just about 1m from sidewalls and about 90 cm's from the wall behind them. Behind speakers are some homemade absorbers. My hope for the future is a new pair of ML Vantage, driven by an integrated amp of some sort. I focus on clarity and presence in sound. I feel the ML's delivers that in spades, and I really can't see nothing but another set of ML's replacing my Aerius's. My Slimserver is an old IBM Intellistation M Pro, with a 500 GB drive. It needs some more RAM, but works fine. To be replaced by something with lower power consumption and more RAM. -- golfdane ------------------------------------------------------------------------ golfdane's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13420 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30141 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
