Hi Chris,
As you get more DIY confidence in you you'll find you can make any cheap CD player (or a good soundcard or any DAC) give stunning results 🙂
You'll hear what is possible from 2-3+ different chipsets/players at the meet.
Simon
As you get more DIY confidence in you you'll find you can make any cheap CD player (or a good soundcard or any DAC) give stunning results 🙂
You'll hear what is possible from 2-3+ different chipsets/players at the meet.
Simon
Hi Simon
Will you be taking your open baffles?
I heard my first OBs recently and was stunned how they sound. I want to hear more!
John
Will you be taking your open baffles?
I heard my first OBs recently and was stunned how they sound. I want to hear more!
John
Simon, I'll bring my little dac which is stunning now. What about speakers? I should have new tweeters in the Jamo's soon enough, but also have the battered old Tannoy HPD's.
Just let me know.
Cheers, Lee.
edit: John asked a good question there, will you have em ready?
Just let me know.
Cheers, Lee.
edit: John asked a good question there, will you have em ready?
Guys,
Yes, the new ones will be ready by then easily. I can only really do one thing at a time and recently its been my damn Mondeo, which after a DIY top end rebuild for blown head gaskets failed its MOT today! It now wants 2 new tyres, wishbones and hand brake cables which I'll get cracking with tomorrow lol
Soon enough it'll be 100% effort on those new open baffles, they will be done and they will sound to my taste by then ie. warm and smooth with the instantness of OB.
Simon
Yes, the new ones will be ready by then easily. I can only really do one thing at a time and recently its been my damn Mondeo, which after a DIY top end rebuild for blown head gaskets failed its MOT today! It now wants 2 new tyres, wishbones and hand brake cables which I'll get cracking with tomorrow lol
Soon enough it'll be 100% effort on those new open baffles, they will be done and they will sound to my taste by then ie. warm and smooth with the instantness of OB.
Simon
Attachments
A single ended triode? Sounds good to me, as long as there's at least one set of speakers it can push. Or for fun it could bi-amp with some speaker like mine where the mid and tweeter are efficient and probably quite an easy load... I'd like to hear that!
Hi
It's a cheap one from CPC - discontinued now. I bought one, liked it, so I got another, just because. I can't find them on their website now....
Chris
PS - after a bit more of a look-around
--|AV17497|AUDIO CAPTURE, XLR/JACK INPUT | CPC
They do some other similar ones with varying numbers of inputs and outputs.
Here they are...
--|AV17495|AUDIO CAPTURE, XLR TO USB | CPC
--|AV17496|AUDIO CAPTURE, 6.35MM JACK TO | CPC
--|AV17498|AUDIO CAPTURE, 2X XLR/JACK INPUT | CPC
Edit - my speakers do well on the end of valve stuff. Looks like there'll be queues to try everyone's speakers.
Last edited:
I like it !!
I used to have an MG engine in the cupboard under the kitchen sink !!!
Andy
.(That was, of course, before I met my future wife !!!)
I might be interested in this, I am in Sheffield as well (Simon, I bought some cheap drivers off you a couple of months back if you remember, I keep meaning to email you back but haven't got round to it yet). I don't post on here much at all but do on PFM.
Power amps and turntables are what I have been spending most of my time on building so far. I have 2 x Avondale NCC200 DIY dual mono power amps (these drive my KEF reference 2's at home, bi-amped), one NCC200 ebay clone in a Cryus shoebox with a 500VA transformer (which was a bit of a squeeze), and am currently knee-deep in building my 2nd re-plinthed Lenco L75 (with a choice of Rega RB250, Hadcock GH228 or Pro-ject carbon fibre arms). Next on the list is a Pass Labs B1 pre-amp.
Power amps and turntables are what I have been spending most of my time on building so far. I have 2 x Avondale NCC200 DIY dual mono power amps (these drive my KEF reference 2's at home, bi-amped), one NCC200 ebay clone in a Cryus shoebox with a 500VA transformer (which was a bit of a squeeze), and am currently knee-deep in building my 2nd re-plinthed Lenco L75 (with a choice of Rega RB250, Hadcock GH228 or Pro-ject carbon fibre arms). Next on the list is a Pass Labs B1 pre-amp.
df_genius,
Good to see you on here! Yeh, hit me back on the e-mails, didn't know you were on the forum 🙂
Pass B1 should be good, it's said by Pedja Rogic to be a copy of his buffer stage, which is very good sounding indeed! I'd love to do a full Pass power amp, they're wonderful things.
Simon
Good to see you on here! Yeh, hit me back on the e-mails, didn't know you were on the forum 🙂
Pass B1 should be good, it's said by Pedja Rogic to be a copy of his buffer stage, which is very good sounding indeed! I'd love to do a full Pass power amp, they're wonderful things.
Simon
I recently bought some 1970s 6x9"s, which sound quite nice when used OB. They need eq in the bass though. I can bring them, if you like.
- Status
- Not open for further replies.