Speakers: Altec 604-8G drivers in DIY corner cabinets. 9ft3/40Hz vented boxes, Baltic birch with cherry veneer. Markwart crossovers sit outside boxes, hard wired with single strand 24ga solid core copper wire. This page describes my journey with these
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Amplifiers: DIY scratch built 45/2A3 SET, WE417A driver, RCA 245 globes or RCA blackplate 2A3s, all James iron, Cerafine/BlackGate/Jupiter caps, stainless and SA mahogany chassis. Sometimes, scratch built 300B SET monoblocks - started as Angela91 but since changed to 6SN7 driver stage and DC 300B heaters (Schottky bridge, CLC filtered). Current tube mix is Mullard GZ37 rectifier, Western Electric 300B and Brimar CV1988 (6SN7).
Pre-amp: all tube Joule Electra LA-100 MKIII, modded Sonic Frontiers SFP-1 phono stage.
Turntable: VPI Aries Series 1 table with JMW-10.5 arm, ZYX Airy 3 X SB M/C (copper wire & silver base).
Tuner: Scott 350-D (tube) and Accuphase T-101 (SS) tuners with Dynalab ST-2 antenna.
Digits: Sony SCD-777ES SACD/CD player on Final Labs roller bearings, AudioNote Kit 2.1 non-oversampling DAC with Siemens 7308's.
Wire & stuff: various garden hose looking things and pretty silver hanging around but lately a Coincident PC on the SACD player, Silverstrings PC on DAC, Marinco/Belden DIY PC on amps, mostly Final Labs copper/cotton interconnects and Western-Electric copper/cotton thin ga. Litz braided speaker wire. Monster Cable power conditioner for tuner, everything else into dedicated audio circuits back to the panel. Spiked Lovan modular racking system.
Room: 12.2x22.6 dedicated listening room.
Headphone setup: Antique Sound Labs MG Head with Amperex Bugleboy EL84 and Mullard 12AX7. Sennheiser HD-600 phones.
