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Mr Squeegs's a 20 year old's DIY audiohillia passion System |
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| Last Update: October 27, 2003 at 06:30:01 | IP Address: 203.61.71.216 |
| Amplifier: | Tweaked yamaha ca-710 and cq-810 all with completely upgraded powersupply, ac cabling rectification and caps, bypassed preamp, rca imput straight to alps pot to poweramp section, speaker protection bypassed, diy internal speaker cable, solid core ofc copper, gold speaker binders, buffered vu dials with opamps 30 watt lm1875 gainclone monoblocks, using dual rectification powersupply, inverted operation, with custom aluminium cases and cabling |
| Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): | 12 step passive attenuator built for gainclone |
| Speakers: | DIY unfolded voight Pipes, tweaked, with redback fullrange driver, mahogany finish Jamo cornet 145k with modified box, crossover and internal wiring |
| Sources: | |
| CD Player/DAC: | Phillips cd210 - converted to zero oversampling, uses a tda1543. converted to top loading with machined cd puck and upgraded powersupply and rca jacks, and once i can find a certain op amp i will build a kwack clock |
| Turntable/Phono Stage: | DIY glass tuntable connstructed with main bearing motor and ac regualtor out of my oldproject 2.1 turntable urntable, Grado black cartridge,The yamaha ca810 has a very good phonostage in it, adjustable imedence and gain Turntable constructed with main bearing motor and ac regualtor out of my oldproject 2.1 turntable |
| Other Source(s): | Teac x-7 open reel, Akai 400ds mk2 open reel, |
| Other Accessories/Room/Misc.: | |
| Speaker Cables/Interconnects: | Jaycar OFC monitor speaker cable, and DIY flavour of the month stuff. DIY twin ground 30awg copper interconnects gold rca plugs |
| Other (Power Conditioner, Racks etc.): | components are all on the floor sitting on flat polished granite slabs, i have a high quality solid copper core cable running from a 20 amp connection at the powerbox all the way to a brass wallplug in my soundroom, all gear is connected through that |
| Tweaks: | straws in the jamo bass ports, blue tack on cd player clock, i burn all my cd'd on a dedicatd audio computer with linear powersupply running in safe mode on to black cd's at 1x speed using exact audio copy and a richo drive then they are put in the fridge overnight and then cd starts to sound like it should :), all my components are on the granite slabs on the floor and require minimal isolation |
| Room Size (LxWxH): | 6.1m x 3.2m x 2.4m |
| Room Comments/Treatments: | bookcases in all wall provide excelent sound dispersion i am using the audio pysics method of speaker placement with the speaker chair centered right against the back wall and speakers halway in the room and almost an equalateral triangle with a nice amount of toe in |
| Music Preferences and Comments: | |
| Music Used (Genre/Selections): | progressive rock, synthpop, vocals, anything that is well produced Depeche mode ! Pink floyd, alan parsons project, mike oldfield, the beatles, earl klugh, led zeplin, dire straits, radiohead, endorphin, delerium, madonna, kate bush, tori amos, film soundtracks, |
| System Goals/Comments: | I am young, basically no one my age is interested in this side of audio, but i love it all, great music and great systems can have a profound impact on ones life. It is my goal to make a great entirely DIY system that reflects my own personality and design goals and which offers startling performance for the price. i love having girls in my soundroom, turning off the lights and pressing play on a good cd. then minutes later turning the lights back on and seeing the look on their face :) |
| System Strengths: | Soundstaging, Soundstaging, Soundstaging what can i say except nothing gets this system going like some q sound recording great high end thanks to gaincloine and zero os player, transparent midrange and a sound i place in between cd and solidestate and vinyl and tubes, im having my cake and eating it, not for much $$$ thanks to diy and this forum |
| System Weaknesses: | well thanks to bookselfs and the TQWP the bass isnt anything special in the lower octaves but hey i can live without it :)Because of my system and my love for hifi all my friends and parents think im crazy |
| Video/HT System: None | |
| Other Interests/Hobbies/Occupation: | Bicycle trials, i own the only onza 26inch in australia and i love driving and playing with euroupean and jap imports |