A DIY system on a tight budget. I love to do things by myself and by hand, and being a grad student doesn't let me work on my hotrod much (especially since its 400 miles away). A close second is hotrodding stereos, which is a hobby that I was infected with not too long ago.
Seduction phono pre completed with the exception of the Lundahl step-up transformers (1:5) to make the low-output Grado on the Scout a little more user-friendly.
The Straight 8 speakers are in, and the cabs will be completed soon.
I plan to have a buddy of mine pinstripe the 8's and the Seduction to give my system a little personality.
"precision equipment" just as was stated in the stated in the instruction manual
Grado Reference
Made low output especially for the JMW tonearm.
Bottlehead Seduction
A fantastic pre for the money, and the folks at bottlehead are a blast to deal with. If they don't know something--then it can probably be found by those people on the forum. Makes me glad that I put the effort into constructing it.
Pioneer DV-563A-S
Described in reviews as not having much bass--I don't have this problem in my setup. This thing will play anything that is circlualr shaped and has a hole in the middle.
DIY solid silver interconnect
18ga pure silver shielded interconnect. Canare RCA ends. Leave feedback if you know of better RCA's or if different size wire works better for different components
DIY Cat 5 speaker cable
sound a million times better than the monsters that were on there. Will be compared to Kimber 8tc shortly.
VPI HW 16.5
I've got a lot of records, so this cleaner was a no-brainer, especially with the VPI table. Does a wonderful job of taking a lot of pops out of recordings
M-Audio USB
great for playing mp3's and digitizing records
bottlehead foreplay III
an excellent tube preamp, that compliments the tube sound of my system well.
bottlehead straight 8
augmented with version 3 crossover. excellent speakers with lots of audible range
ART di/o
used so far as the dac for my cd player, soon to be replaced with the channel islands dac and supplimental power supply. the di/o will be moved to the m-audio
atari power supply
higher current power supply for the art di/o as well as the m-audio audiophile usb. worked well, especially for the price of 8 bucks a shot
Channel Island vda-1
chanel island dac, and external power supply
Channel Island vmb-1
channel island monoblocks....super sweet...at least until i get my paramounts in
diy venhaus flavor 4
home-made venhaus flavor 4 power cords on pretty much everything.
I dig the bottle head stuff but did you notice there website is basicly a porn site ? Have you ever checked out welborne labs They have nice stuff too but without the porn.
