Geoffkait: you are waaaaay too emotionally involved in defending expensive cable. Either you are a cable rep, or you need some therapeutic assistance.
JPerry: the system is as follows:
CARTRIDGES: Koetsu Onyx; Koetsu Redwood Sugnature; Benz Micro; Grado (for my 78s)
ARM: Sumiko MMT
TURNTABLE: VPI HW MK IV with SAM
PREAMP: Beard P505, rebuilt by Jon Specter (formerly of NY Audio Labs, a blues guitarist and cousin of Al Cooper of BS&T and Highway 61 fame) with Jensen foil caps and phono stage adjusted for MC cartridges.
AMPS: NY Audiolab version of the Julius Futterman output-transformer-less Monoblocks, the OTL3. Jon Specter converted them from pentode to triode, replaced all the caps with Jensen foils.
CROSSOVERS: Mastering Lab, caps replaced with Jensens.
SPEAKERS: Altec Lansing 694Cs, with accordion surround, cone, spider, voice coil and dome (in other words, all moving parts) all very recently replaced by Gabriel Sound with manufacturer specified parts provided by Great Plains Audio.
Also:
CD PLAYER: Rega Planet
TUNER: Kenwood KT8300
RUGS: Moroccan, on the wood floor, to keep sound from splashing. The rugs are way more important than...
CABLES: standard, no name cables between table/preamp/amps, Monster to the speakers but Geoffkait is inspiring me to get off my butt, run down to the local hardware store, buy some lamp wire and stick it in there for Ss&Ks, just to annoy him.
DOG: a Spitz named Mitsy. She's an audiophile too. A) She better be if she wants her food. B) she knows where the sweet spot is. Good Mitsy! Here's your treat! C) she howls when I play the overture to The Who's Tommy, and some other records too, but that one especially. Adds to the mood somehow. John Specter says that's because she hears things captured by the recording that the recording engineers couldn't hear - and that you or I can't hear - and that my system is able to reveal.
JPerry: the system is as follows:
CARTRIDGES: Koetsu Onyx; Koetsu Redwood Sugnature; Benz Micro; Grado (for my 78s)
ARM: Sumiko MMT
TURNTABLE: VPI HW MK IV with SAM
PREAMP: Beard P505, rebuilt by Jon Specter (formerly of NY Audio Labs, a blues guitarist and cousin of Al Cooper of BS&T and Highway 61 fame) with Jensen foil caps and phono stage adjusted for MC cartridges.
AMPS: NY Audiolab version of the Julius Futterman output-transformer-less Monoblocks, the OTL3. Jon Specter converted them from pentode to triode, replaced all the caps with Jensen foils.
CROSSOVERS: Mastering Lab, caps replaced with Jensens.
SPEAKERS: Altec Lansing 694Cs, with accordion surround, cone, spider, voice coil and dome (in other words, all moving parts) all very recently replaced by Gabriel Sound with manufacturer specified parts provided by Great Plains Audio.
Also:
CD PLAYER: Rega Planet
TUNER: Kenwood KT8300
RUGS: Moroccan, on the wood floor, to keep sound from splashing. The rugs are way more important than...
CABLES: standard, no name cables between table/preamp/amps, Monster to the speakers but Geoffkait is inspiring me to get off my butt, run down to the local hardware store, buy some lamp wire and stick it in there for Ss&Ks, just to annoy him.
DOG: a Spitz named Mitsy. She's an audiophile too. A) She better be if she wants her food. B) she knows where the sweet spot is. Good Mitsy! Here's your treat! C) she howls when I play the overture to The Who's Tommy, and some other records too, but that one especially. Adds to the mood somehow. John Specter says that's because she hears things captured by the recording that the recording engineers couldn't hear - and that you or I can't hear - and that my system is able to reveal.