Main listening room

MAIN LISTENING ROOM

SIGNAL SOURCES AND COMPONENTS

LP AND 78 RPM PLAYBACK SYSTEM

Garrard 301 grease bearing model on a 24" square heavy plywood laminate plinth. Ortofon RMG309 with SPU-GME in front and Schick 12" with a Orsonic AV101b/Denon DL103C1 at the back.
Thorens TD124II also on a heavy plywood laminate plinth Fidelity Research FR64fx or Excel ES801with Denon DL103s.
Rek-O-Kut B12H in two tiered plywood plinth, Velvet Touch viscous damped tonearm with GE VRII triple play variable reluctance cartridge for 78rpm and mono playback.
Tamura TKS83 for MC step-up, switchable load between 3 ohms and 40 ohms or Altec 4722 from my assorted collection of mic input transformers.

MICROPHONES

Shure SM81 cardioid condensers in shock mounts on an adjustable angle stereo bar on a K&M microphone boom and stand.

ANALOG TAPE DECKS

Revox A77 - 4-track 3.75/7.5 ips. open reel.
Marantz PMD430 - 3 head portable cassette.

DIGITAL SOURCES

Sony DVP-NS500V DVD/SACD/CD player.
Tascam DAP1 portable DAT recorder/player.

FM TUNER

Scott LT110B - tubed FM unit with MPX decoder.

PREAMPS

JE Labs deluxe - 2 x 5691 for phono, 2 x 76 linestage and 2 x 6SN7GTB cathode followers. Outboard 5V4 rectified, choke input power supply.
JEL monophonic preamp with variable EQ for early mono LPs and 78 rpm shellac records. Please visit my new page on mono playback.
DB systems switchbox for selecting line level sources.

AMPS

JEL SE300Bdx monoblocks with Tamura F7002 permalloy OPTs [Altec 755s]
JEL stereo SE2A3dx with Tango NY15s Permalloy OPTs [Altec 2-way]
JEL stereo SE245 with Tamura F475 OPTs.
JEL stereo SE171A with Tango H-5S OPTs.

CABLES

Mogami W2534 shielded microphone cables for low level phono interconnects.
Kimber KCAG and PBJ interconnects for line level.
Kimber 4TC speaker cables.

SPEAKERS

Two-way horn speakers using Altec components - 414Z in 614 bass reflex cabinets crossed over at 900hz [6db slope] to 811 horn lenses with 802D compression drivers and 3000H super tweeters. Click here for more information.

Altec 755As in open baffles. Click here for plans.

MONAURAL SYSTEM

home theatre/listening room 2 and listening room 3

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