DLudington
Active Member
I finally was able to pull my stereo back out now that the kids are old enough. With a lot of advice from the AK group here, I was able to get the TT up and running and pick out a new set of speakers since I have my old Paradigm Studio/20's to my brother in law.
I use this as my only 2-channel stereo and it gets heavy use and is on most of the time I'm at home. It sounds so sweet and smooth. Non-fatiguing with a punchy and dynamic sound between the Scott amp and Boston A70 speakers.
Amp: HH Scott LK-48: Purchased when I was in college about 13 years ago and all recapped with SoniCaps. Sounds awesome with the full collection of NOS tubes I've accumulated over the years.
Tuner: HH Scott LT-110: Doesn't get much use, but still can pull in stations easily. I need to get a better antenna for better station selection.
Turntable: Lenco L75: I traded someone at work a Dyna FM-3 for this 4 or so years ago. Didn't know what I had on hand until a year or 2 ago. It has a Stanton 681 with a 4606-DEX stylus and sounds great! At some point in the future, I'd like to go down the rabbit hole and put together a PTP-based plinth and upgrade the tonearm.
Headphone Amp: Bottlehead Crack: Fully modded with film output caps, choke, Cree rectifier, stepped attenuator. Sounds amazing with my Sennheiser HD-580's (not pictured)
Speakers: Boston Acoustics A70: I found these on Craigslist a few months ago, and they're the original model with the SEAS tweeters. Unfortunately the woofers were replaced with Realistic models but I was able to find an OEM pair of refoamed woofers, which brought the speaker back to its original state. I added 5 way binding posts and put in a 1% matched Dayton film cap to replace the old electrolytic in the crossover.
Digital: Schiit Modi 2 Uber DAC (behind the TT) being fed from an Airport Express.
Cables: AntiCables for speaker wire and Silver Sonic DH-1 interconnects.
I use this as my only 2-channel stereo and it gets heavy use and is on most of the time I'm at home. It sounds so sweet and smooth. Non-fatiguing with a punchy and dynamic sound between the Scott amp and Boston A70 speakers.
Amp: HH Scott LK-48: Purchased when I was in college about 13 years ago and all recapped with SoniCaps. Sounds awesome with the full collection of NOS tubes I've accumulated over the years.
Tuner: HH Scott LT-110: Doesn't get much use, but still can pull in stations easily. I need to get a better antenna for better station selection.
Turntable: Lenco L75: I traded someone at work a Dyna FM-3 for this 4 or so years ago. Didn't know what I had on hand until a year or 2 ago. It has a Stanton 681 with a 4606-DEX stylus and sounds great! At some point in the future, I'd like to go down the rabbit hole and put together a PTP-based plinth and upgrade the tonearm.
Headphone Amp: Bottlehead Crack: Fully modded with film output caps, choke, Cree rectifier, stepped attenuator. Sounds amazing with my Sennheiser HD-580's (not pictured)
Speakers: Boston Acoustics A70: I found these on Craigslist a few months ago, and they're the original model with the SEAS tweeters. Unfortunately the woofers were replaced with Realistic models but I was able to find an OEM pair of refoamed woofers, which brought the speaker back to its original state. I added 5 way binding posts and put in a 1% matched Dayton film cap to replace the old electrolytic in the crossover.
Digital: Schiit Modi 2 Uber DAC (behind the TT) being fed from an Airport Express.
Cables: AntiCables for speaker wire and Silver Sonic DH-1 interconnects.
