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| Todd Krieger's Hundred dB Club System | |
| IP Address: 68.104.247.26 | Last Update: July 24, 2020 at 06:20:05 |
| Amplifier: | Don Allen 8417 Single-Ended Monoblock Amplifiers (8 wpc) Alternate amplifiers: Don Allen 6W6 Push-Pull Stereo Amplifier (12 wpc) Don Allen 6V6 Push-Pull Stereo Amplifier (10 wpc) Don Allen 10 Single-Ended Triode Amplifier w James Output Transformers(3 wpc) Don Allen 45 Single-Ended Triode Amplifier with James Output Transformers (2 wpc) Jeff Larson 6384 Single-Ended Tetrode Amplifier (6 wpc) |
| Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): | Don Allen Gen III Four-Tube Line Stage |
| Speakers: | 15-Inch Eminence Coax (Seismic Audio T-Driver 16 ohm compression tweeter) with custom cabinet. Crossover re-built by Don Allen. 100 dB/w/m efficient. |
| Sources: | |
| CD Player/DAC: | Don Allen-modified Philips CDC-935 (tube) 5-Disc CD Changer. With 1976 Voskhod 6N23P (Russian 6922) output tube. |
| Turntable/Phono Stage: | Music Hall MMF-9 Turntable (stock) VAS Refurbished Denon 103 phono cartridge with elliptical stylus. *Turntable mat made with Home Depot vinyl tile (loose 12" x 12" x 3/16" stock, cut to mat size), covered with GEM-Dandy cork record mat. 115-gram record weight. Ryan Sound Lab RSL phono stage with aftermarket Silk Audio step-up transformer, custom 1:10 with 100 ohm input impedance. |
| Other Source(s): | Yamaha T-85 AM/FM tuner. Tascam 122 MkII cassette deck (recording), Nakamichi CR-5A (playback). |
| Other Accessories/Room/Misc.: | |
| Speaker Cables/Interconnects: | #6 AWG Telco Flex IV/L4 Flex speaker cables. Grover Huffman Empress, Dyson/Cardas coax, Morrow Audio V (new version), and Atlas Equator interconnect cables. Audio Envy phono cables between turntable and step-up. |
| Other (Power Conditioner, Racks etc.): | Zero Surge surge protection, Tripp-Lite voltage regulation, and OneAC CP1110 line conditioners. Volex 17604, Pangea, and CablesAndKits C5040072-BL (blue "stock") power cords. Topaz Line 2 Ferromagnetic Line Condition for CD player. |
| Tweaks: | 3/4" Granite slabs atop speaker boxes, to damp top box vibrations. (Speakers themselves are internally braced at the side walls.) |
| Room Size (LxWxH): | 15' x 18' x Inclined |
| Room Comments/Treatments: | Behind the listening sofa, Home Depot 1" PVC pipe frame at 6' x 6', draped with Highland Feather Sussex Down king size blanket. (Knocks down slap echo in room, does not need wall mounts, and costs under $100.) |
| Music Preferences and Comments: | |
| Music Used (Genre/Selections): | Everything, from Vivaldi to Aleks Syntek. |
| System Goals/Comments: | A low-powered high-efficiency system that recreates the live music experience. |
| System Strengths: | Effortless dynamics with the "gestalt" of the real thing. Superior linearity. "Spooky" realism and dynamic scale. Seismic Audio T-Driver tweeter upgrade improves transparency, image specificity, and 3-D soundstage. Enjoyable from multiple sources. Whole system costs less than $5000. |
| System Weaknesses: | Won't fix bad recordings. |
| Video/HT System: None | |
| TV/Projector: | Flat screen, perhaps. Maybe 10 years from now. |
| URL Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxisCJHC9tY&fmt=22 | |
| Other Interests/Hobbies/Occupation: | Sports- Tennis anyone?? |
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