Comnoz
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Some people go for cars, others for girls.
Me, I have a great wife, so I built an insane stereo system for my shop. Nothing high dollar here. Just many years of accumulation.
Here we go with show and tell.
Here is the main amp and speakers that is in my avitar
Now back to the source.
It is a dual motherboard industrial pc. One board is devoted to J River and the other is devoted to VinylStudio. The PC renders it's music from an 8 Tb server that is tucked away where I can't hear it.
There is a scratch built tube DAC on top of the PC.
For A to D I use an ADL- GT40
Next is the turntable I built a few years back. The table and all the main parts are milled from glass re-enforced virgin Teflon.
It mounts a Grace arm and the drive motor is salvaged from an old tape machine. The box to the right of the GT40 is the motor speed control.
Vacuum is applied through the spindle from a pump that is in a little doghouse outside the building.
There is a prox sensor for arm position and a vacuum over hydraulic tonearm lifter.
The little blue button below the deck is a motion sensor. When I get my hand within an inch it will raise or lower the tonearm.
I use either a Shure v15/IV or a Empire 2000/3 cartridge
A Pioneer DVD player handles the digital media.
Next comes the preamp. It uses 4-6H1N tubes and an autotransformer volume control.
It uses a vacuum florescent level meter from an old Russian tape deck.
The remote power supply uses a 6X4 rectifier and a tube pass element.
It is built in an old sweep generator housing.
I use a BBE 482I for a dynamic tone control when needed and use a reworked BSS active crossover to separate the sub channel from the main channels.
Next post I will go to the main amp.
Me, I have a great wife, so I built an insane stereo system for my shop. Nothing high dollar here. Just many years of accumulation.
Here we go with show and tell.
Here is the main amp and speakers that is in my avitar
Now back to the source.
It is a dual motherboard industrial pc. One board is devoted to J River and the other is devoted to VinylStudio. The PC renders it's music from an 8 Tb server that is tucked away where I can't hear it.
There is a scratch built tube DAC on top of the PC.
For A to D I use an ADL- GT40
Next is the turntable I built a few years back. The table and all the main parts are milled from glass re-enforced virgin Teflon.
It mounts a Grace arm and the drive motor is salvaged from an old tape machine. The box to the right of the GT40 is the motor speed control.
Vacuum is applied through the spindle from a pump that is in a little doghouse outside the building.
There is a prox sensor for arm position and a vacuum over hydraulic tonearm lifter.
The little blue button below the deck is a motion sensor. When I get my hand within an inch it will raise or lower the tonearm.
I use either a Shure v15/IV or a Empire 2000/3 cartridge
A Pioneer DVD player handles the digital media.
Next comes the preamp. It uses 4-6H1N tubes and an autotransformer volume control.
It uses a vacuum florescent level meter from an old Russian tape deck.
The remote power supply uses a 6X4 rectifier and a tube pass element.
It is built in an old sweep generator housing.
I use a BBE 482I for a dynamic tone control when needed and use a reworked BSS active crossover to separate the sub channel from the main channels.
Next post I will go to the main amp.
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