Post photos of your systems/rooms here! (Part 15)

Ah, I see. Great that Spendor was already prepared for this!

Thanks! It was initially very confusing to get my money refunded and not be given any further instruction.

 

Oh heck, I am seeing one area you can make a significent tweek, and here it is, swap these for the ones you have now, I promise you will like it!!!

 

The MoFi, with its solid wood plinth, sounds absolutely amazing. It’s a better sounding deck than the 1210GR no matter what cart I use. It’s just quieter.

But I love the 1210 for the ease of cart switching, which I do monthly or so.

I have a blast with both. If I had to keep only one it would be the MoFi.

 

Paying my tribute this morning as well by playing their albums.

 

yep -- quite a loss. christine wrote so many amazing songs. and she and stevie were quite a team.

 

Not the right thread for this, but my favorite thread.
But maybe with all of the TT knowledge here you can illuminate me.

Going back to my turntable days, '72-'84...
1st was a Dual 1219 w\ Shure cart idler drive
1976 got a B&O belt drive(round white belt)
In 1980 bought a totally new system with a Denon DP-?? direct-drive with a Denon 301 I think, MC.
As I remember, the big debate was belt vs. direct drive with the Rega\Linn folks proclaiming the superiority of belt
& that servo-controlled DDs exhibiting cogging etc.

Seemed to be Japanese European thing

I do remember when the Technics came out & the usual reviewers were meh about it still expounding on belt-drive.
What the hell happened with DD being accepted as equal to BD?

I missed the whole thing probably because I jumped on the CD train fairly early 84.
Thank you!

IME, I found the most significant improvement came with the moving coil Denon cartridge

 

This could have been the last Fleetwood Mac album...Christine and Lindsey with John on bass and Mick drumming. I listened to it again today and it is quite good. I didn't miss Stevie at all.
RIP, Christine. Thanks for sharing your music with the world.

 

This little porcelain owl lamp was my nightlight when I'd sleep at my grandparents' house as a kid, and I inherited it when they sadly both passed this year. I think it gives the Dynacos some 70s cred...

 

there were gold lion kt77's in my sonic frontiers sfs-40 when i got it and i used them for about a year... when i got my preamp upgraded... it came back from the factory with all NOS tubes... and since i didn't have an accurate age of the tubes in my power amp... i decided to get all new tubes for that... it was right smack in the middle of the "tube crisis" that never really was early this spring... i ended up getting some EH fat bottle 6CA7's and i have to say i like them more than the gold lions. personal preference of course... but i find them to be a more versatile tube... the gold lions were amazing with jazz and classical... which i listen to... but i also listen to all manners of rock n roll and the hip hop and dub reggae and i feel like the EH's can handle whatever i throw at them...

i started my tube journey with another EL34 based amp... an anthem AMP 1. that had Svetlana Hard Blue tubes in it and those are not available anymore which is a tragedy b/c of the tubes i have heard those are by far the best EL34's for my $$$$.

 

Empty!

 

Your system looks great through beer goggles!

 

Full moon

 

What amplifier is this?

 

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Stunning view amp and moon both.

 

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

@action pact and @Slimwhit33 you both have gorgeous systems I love Spendors and Fischers and Luxmans and those tables both of you!

 

Looking good! Is that a Specials LP going around?

 

Thank you! The combination of the Fisher X-100 (EL84s) and Spendors works wonderfully. Despite the Fisher’s low powered rating (12wpc or so), it has no problem driving the SP3/1Rs at all.

Good eye!

 

Hi, it’s a 211 set, Kondo Ongaku Japanese clone, just bought second hand very good impressions on my first testings .
OTOMON Laboratory　(音門ラボ) / Audio Note Kondo Ongaku type 211 SE tube amplifier with FW-150-10SR

 

Great looking amp and that's some serious iron in it I bet it sounds fantastic!

 

This is a bit of an odd post but I was reading an article in the NY Time about octagonal houses, fascinating in and of itself and in one of the photos there is a pair of speakers and even more exciting speaker cables! In a real estate glamour shot! I bet this room, being round, would sound good with some furnishings and wall hangings. I'm guessing these are Klipsch Heresy's maybe?