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Equipment line-up CD Transport - Proceed CDD Digital cable - NBS Pro AES/EBU D/A converter - DAX-2 Gold Screw version D/A to Preamp - Decade Preamp - Marantz 7 (re-issue) preamp to Power amp - Diamond 2 or MIT 350 Reference Power amp - Marantz 8b and CRD Woodham 300B Spk cable - Decade Biwire Speaker - Tannoy canterbury 15HE Others - Orbe turntable with SME V tone arm with shure V15V (Still on the floor and will be set up again soon) Favourite Tubes NOS TFK 12AX7 smooth and ribbed plate. NOS Mullard EL34 large brown base. NOS WE 300B made before 1957. None in hand. Has yet to find a pairs of good matched. Favourite Music Classical - Strings, piano, and aria. Modern music - Female vocal (slow and sentimental songs) My HiFi Journey I have been playing or being played by Hi Fi non-stop since around 1968. I started with a tube amp which I bought from my friend for $60- in or about 1968. My friend promised to garantee it for one month. However, it was out of order in the fifth week, just over the garantee period. I was very upset. Eventually I dismantled it and used some of the parts to rebuild another one. I obtained the necessary electronic knowledge from a physis teacher of my school. I built several tube amps in the following few years until I graduated in 1971 and started to work. My first LP player was a 2-pole motor "Lucky" turntable. It costed me $51- plus $5- for the base. I bought it from Aplius Street. Thereafter I had changed about 20 turntables. The last one was Kenwood 600 (?), direct drive installed with a SME 3009 plus Shure V15 III (?). I sold all my LPs and the turntable in 1983 and bought a Philips CD300 for $4,750 (?). Since then I have changed about 15 - 20 sets of CD players/components. I started to collect LPs and bought back LP equipments again in 1995. |
