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I tre faggi se ne stanno alla sommità di un crinale prealpino che guarda i vastissimi e fumosi orizzonti della Pianura Veneta. Se ne stanno il silenzio, dialogando soltanto con il vento e interpretando sè stessi, la loro missione di vita. Ma un fremito speciale scuote le loro fronde quando i venti di Tramontana ripuliscono l'aria e, all'orizzonte, appare la lama di luce della Laguna di Venezia ..... ..
I don't use this as often as I'd like, but when I do, I really enjoy it.
A relatively recent replacement for a turntable I had since high school. It didn't break the bank but easily could have; little did I know a new turntable can require a second mortgage. And that's just for the turntable! Then there's the cartridge, the preamp, and while you're at it . . .
Musical note: I much prefer Blue Train to Kind of Blue, but the latter made for a better title. Either way, jazz is sexier in vinyl.
Technical note: This was the first time I used live view to manually focus. It's the bomb!
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All acoustic, no backing tracks, all live.
Gibson J200 acoustic guitar with top of the line Neumann vocal microphone through warm tube preamps with professional studio sound quality and mix.
Turntables: Sony TTS2500 + Grace G565 tonearm + Denon DL103 and Realistic MK8 + Alfred Bokrand AS309 + Ortofon SPU#1s
MC step up: Altec 4722 + 15095A
CD transport + DAC: Magnavox CDB650 to JE Labs nosTDA1541tube
Tuner: NAD 4300
Preamp : JE Labs Loctal
Amps: JE Labs Simple 45, JE Labs Simple 46 and Radiotron SE2A3
Speakers: Altec 755C in Silbatone cabs
1975
The dream preamplifier of every hi-fi friend (and me) from the 70s and for many certainly still today.
"Aiming for the highest level of control amplifier, this control amplifier is equipped with excellent basic performance and extensive adjustment functions" is the comment of the "Audio Database" on the CA-3000 from the Sansui "Definition" series.
The structure and the technical design of the heavy preamp (14kg) is uncompromising and built for eternity.
So this is the rig run down : Fender Style neck with locking tuners, a Tune-o-Matic bridge with roller saddles & built in Piezo tranducer with a SEB3P preamp from Guitar Fuel 2 Filtron style Humbuckers that sound awesome, from Mr Fabulous.
A 5 way switch so I can split the humbuckers, 500K pots with a push-push tone pot so I can have a .022 capacitor and .047 cap for different tone options, a DPDT 3 way switch switch to choose to run the buckers through the pre amp or not.
A bigsby style tremolo for bling, 2 springs that add body resonance. all running through a slab of Aussie hard wood, covered with Poly satin finish.
I hope you like it. sound clip coming soon.
From middle right: 19.5vdc power connector from laptop power brick, power distribution on project board, 1st EMI filter to Class D Amp board (top with heatsink) preamp board (red,) another EMI filter board to Bluetooth / DAC board.
This will all go into a soon-to-be repurposed jewelry box with a pair of speakers on front.
1975
The dream preamplifier of every hi-fi friend (and me) from the 70s and for many certainly still today.
"Aiming for the highest level of control amplifier, this control amplifier is equipped with excellent basic performance and extensive adjustment functions" is the comment of the "Audio Database" on the CA-3000 from the Sansui "Definition" series.
The structure and the technical design of the heavy preamp (14kg) is uncompromising and built for eternity.
1975
The dream preamplifier of every hi-fi friend (and me) from the 70s and for many certainly still today.
"Aiming for the highest level of control amplifier, this control amplifier is equipped with excellent basic performance and extensive adjustment functions" is the comment of the "Audio Database" on the CA-3000 from the Sansui "Definition" series.
The structure and the technical design of the heavy preamp (14kg) is uncompromising and built for eternity.
This is a picture of my Nikon D3000 with my new telephoto lens attached. When i got the lens in the mail, the lens cap was jammed into the front part of the lens but i was able to get it out without damaging the front element of the lens. The zoom ring was also very stiff when i first used it. Other than that it is a very good lens for the $160 that it cost. I was actually surprised that it came with a lens hood because the more expensive Canon EF-S 55-250mm lens i bought (for the Canon EOS Rebel XTi of course) didn't have a lens hood. I wish Sigma had better quality control though... (I took this picture with the Kodak Z1275 in case anyone was wondering)
Bush deck (built-in preamp) connected to Griffin iMic line-in port via adapter, thence to USB port on MacBook Air. Recording via Amadeus Pro software, while Airfoil software streams the sound to AirPort Express-connected stereo.
Updating the image for posterity, as in the original long-shot I didn't have the new pickguard hand-cut (my first attempt) and installed yet- it really puts the icing on this beauty. The prior shot didn't really convey the painfully-exacting refinishing work on the body, either. This is still my primary stage/session bass (as it has been for damn near 17 years now), but now it can cover any tonal range you want it to - including the requisite Jazz tones - with grace and ease. Doesn't hurt that the neck has always nearly played itself, either. ;-)
(complete list 'o mods: Duncan Bass Lines 'Classic Stack' double-coil pickups, Bartolini preamp - volume + killswitch/pickup blend/concentric bass & treble EQ knob, Badass II bridge, Hipshot D-Tuner, full neck/fret rebuild and body refinish/repaint job w/pearloid pickguard.)
An important part of a vinyl record player, the tonearm holds the cartridge on one end and keeps it at the right "azimuth" which is the left to right tilt the stylus must be adjusted to in order to track the vinyl record grooves. Cartridge cables run through the inside of the tone arm to transmit music to the preamp. On the opposite end of the tonearm is a counter weight which helps determine the correct vertical tracking force (VTF) the stylus manufacturer recommends.
ODC: Mechanical
For my fellow audio nerds, the heart of a my covid era audio setup.
On the lower shelf sit current production (as of 2020) components by Schiit Audio... no, that's not a typo. DAC, equalizer, preamp and power amps are fully differential. The two monoblock power amps operate in Class A mode up to about 40 watts, and heat the loft nicely during the winter. With the pre-amp tubes and equalizer bypassed the sound is as close to the proverbial "straight wire with gain" as my budget permits. It's really some nice Schiit.
On the upper shelf is Bob Carver's 1980-ish effort to throw everything you need, plus several things you didn't know you want, into one package--the C-4000 Control Center. By standards of the day, this was an impressive piece of kit. Bob did things with op amps I haven't seen before or since. In this system the C-4000 is used as phono pre-amp (there are two) and processor for vinyl surface noise reduction and dynamic expansion. It is also capable of some less-than-perfect phase trickery to enhance stereo imaging.
The common factors among these components (other than being way more than one really needs to enjoy music) are beautiful industrial design and product innovation.
BTW, the four vacuum tubes visible on the pre-amp are the same ones shown lit up in the previous photo.
System components (shown):
Carver C-4000 Audio Control Center
Schiit Freya pre-amplifier
Schiit Modius DAC
Schiit Lokius Equalizer
Schiit Aegir power amplifiers
System components (not shown:
Zu Omen DW (Dirty Weekend) speakers
Project Classic turntable
Dynavector 17D2 "Karat" phono cartridge
Wiim Mini streamer
Adcom power conditioner/sequencer
Hand-built XLR interconnect cables
Hand-built speaker cables
For anyone tempted to try this sort of audio foolishness, a simple system consisting of a Wiim Ultra streamer/pre-amp and a decent set of powered monitors will provide nearly the same listening experience with a small investment of time and money and far fewer wires to hide.
(cell phone snapshot)
One of our premium pre amplifiers series, using the very rare UX210 / CX310 tubes. Rectifier tubes is AZ1 mesh-plate. This preamp is amazing for vocal reproduction, simply the best! Dedicated for for you who prefer mellow music and relax presentation. (FOR SALE, Rp. 12.000.000,-)
Garrard 401 + Bokrand AB309 tonearm
Ortofon SPU GM(E) re-tipped by VAS Audio
JE Labs SE2A3 amp with Tamura 7002 nickel output transformers - coming soon
rack update: Rupert Neve Designs Portico 511 pre's, now there's just 4 more slots to fill!
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here's my review of them: www.electrichotelstudios.com/rnd511review/
If you know me, you know that I frequent the local Electronics Recycling dump. Sometimes I find some pretty amazing stuff there. I'm always on the lookout for vintage audio items and sometimes I get lucky. Back in May of this year I was looking for that next Marantz amp & preamp pair, or perhaps some discarded Altec Lansing 19s that someone just didn't want anymore (LOL)... I saw 2 camera bags on the floor, and was ready to ignore them both but something told me to unzip one and look inside. That bag had the Mamiya M645 with a prism finder, waist-level finder, stabilizer grip, 2 Vivitar Auto Thyristor flashes (master / slave) and about a dozen rolls of 120 film, both exposed and unexposed. The film rolls had expiration dates between 1998 and 2000.
The other bag contained, among other things, a Nikon FE (black), a Minolta X-700, some type of Canon P&S, a set of Cokin filters, and various cables for the flashes. Oh and MORE FILM... rolls and rolls of 35MM, all really old, some exposed, some not. The Minolta and the Canon had unfinished rolls in them, the Nikon needs work.
Needless to say both bags came home with me. The spent film has been donated to the Rescued Film Project . I cannot wait to see what, if anything, is on those rolls! My imagination is going crazy, but I've got to be patient. I highly recommend that you take a spin around the Rescued Film website, it's an amazing collection of lost images, I can't tell you how much I love their mission! I signed an agreement with the donation form stating that I would not publish anything that they give me, so sadly I won't be able to share them here. You could always come over for a beer and look on my computer screen with me though, I'll let you know when they're ready (it may take a year or more).
My daughter and I have been shooting all of the unexposed rolls and loving the results. Some of this expired film has held up amazingly well! I'll post some here on my flickr stream and also on my Instagram (johnfromtheradio). As a general rule we halved the ISO for every decade since it expired and processed it normally. There's interesting color shifts and some really cool splotches and flares. Fun stuff. I shot what was left of the 120 film in the Mamiya, she's going through the 35MM stuff.
Incidentally, the bags contained several business cards of the (presumed) previous owner. He was an IT guy (so he must be pretty awesome) and the cards included his SKY pager number, so that shows how long it's been since he worked at the company listed. I tried the main number, it is disconnected. I'm hesitant to page him LOL.
Turntable: Realistic Mk7
Tonearm: Musicmaster Model 12
Preamp: JE Labs Variable EQ monophonic phono preamp
Amp: JE Labs SE2A3
Speakers: JE Labs mini 757
Listening to American John Fogerty's (Creedence Clearwater Revival) "Cosmos Factory" from a 180gm virgin vinyl album, a wooden Swiss phono-cartridge on a Scottish turntable, through an American phono-preamp, a New Zealand preamp, a Canadian power amplifier, American subwoofer and British speakers.
THIS is diversity!
Things are very dialed in right now! Shure m91ed cart in the dual cs5000, shure m65 preamp with 1963 vintage telefunken 12ax7s, into the phase linear 2000 (glorified volume control) into the AMC CVT2030 (class a el34s) driving the mirage frx7s.
Speakers: Altec 753C
Amps: JEL SE300B mono blocks
Preamp: JEL octal + 76
Turntables: Garrard 301 + Garrard 401
I don't own a fully fledged vacuum tube amp as they were always too expensive for me when I was younger and still a beginner with electric guitars.
I then reached a dark period where I never touched my electric guitars, tried writing music, or simply practice new techniques.
Some time last year, it all came rushing back to me. My love of guitars... which was a hobby long before I wanted to take up digital photography as a hobby.
However, even taking into account my dark years, my skills are not directly proportional to the number of years playing (lol...), and with the latter statement, I still think an amp with a tube preamp and power amp, is still too much for my current skills (and yeah, well money, too lol). But I found a happy medium and got a tube hybrid amp (tube preamp and solid state power amp) in the Orange Micro Terror and the Orange Micro Dark last year.
So here we are, I wanted to get that subtle glow that vacuum tubes have when they warm up.
Will I ever get a fully fledged tube amp in the future? As I continue to rediscover my love for playing the guitar, and writing more and more songs, trying new techniques, but still not really that great of guitar player as I wish to be, I will admit, I am slowly getting my confidence and I already have a full tube amp in my wish list.
Shooting Information:
•Nikon D7200 with MB-D15 Battery Grip
•Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM
•Manual Mode
•15 seconds @ 50mm zoom, f/8
•ISO 200
•Flash Not Fired
Post Processing Information:
•Phase One Capture One Pro
•Not Cropped
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Muffsy MM Phono Preamp board made from the open source version of the PP-3.
See: www.muffsy.com/blogs/post/Make-Your-Own-Muffsy-PCBs
See also: www.muffsy.com/muffsy-pp4
PCB made here: jlcpcb.com
Nikon D610, adapted Helios 44-2 58mm 1:2, 14mm extension.
Just getting everything in place after a major living room remodel. Soooo glad to get it back.. Just a quick shot with the doors open. Going clockwise from the top left.. Rega P3-24 with great old Audio Technica cartridge and several upgrades - Rega TT-PSU speed control - Graham Slee V Era Gold phono preamp - Bluesound Node 2022 - VPI Scout II - Rega Exact II cartridge - Apple TV - Parasound P6 preamplifier - Parasound HCA-1500A amplifier - Rega Apollo CD player - Sony blue-ray player - hidden behind the right door is a TiVo antenna only unit. All that equipment is powering a pair of KEF R3s fed with Kimber 8VS cables, with a pair of REL HT-1205 subwoofers. TV is wall mounted above it all.
I have since added my Schiit Jotunheim headphone amp and Schiit Bifrost II DAC to the top of the cabinet.
Playing this amazing Track via CD on my 20 Year old KEF XQ-1 with Tube PreAmp and 2 Monoblocks
Sorry for Iphone Audio Quality
with polarisation switching and SHF Electronics preamps, these are controlled using a Yaesu G-5500 rotator and connected to the PC via a ERC-M interface which allows automatic tracking of satellites using SatPC32.
Any Mazzy Star fans out there tonight?
Curious to know what's in that stack? Here you go:
• Fiio K11 R2R DAC and Headphone Amp (I like it)
• WiiM Ultra Music Streamer & Digital Preamp (very nice)
• SMSL AO300 MA5332MS Class D Power Amp (jury's still out).
• TABAK Robusto Negra cigar box (improves sound quality ;- )
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