Rolexers with a Hifi Addiction?

[limetime]

Just wanted to share a few Audio Components that I am listening to on this wonderful friday night. Drinking Absinthe and listening to my tubed Audio Research Preamp....Running vinyl too...

That was dinner. lol

[meloncap78]

Harmon Kardon AVR-7300 here with a set of vintage 901's, Paradigm triple port 12" powered sub, and Paradigm center with satellites.......... all packed away in the attic cause my daughter moved back in temporarily and I lost my man cave

[limetime]

NICE. Glad to see people here with a taste in fine audio equipment.

[Oyster Junkie]

I like Nakamichi and McIntosh.

[limetime]

Yeah, I need to sell the Adcom GFA5800 in pursuit of a tubed amp. The gain on the preamp is too high for CD players because the preamp was made before cds were invented so I need to get a different amp with less output gain. And eventually upgrade the turntable....Rolex or Turntable upgrade??? I think a Rolex..

[cyglee]

Vintage gear from 1989/90... Audio Research Classic 60 amp, Audio Research SP 9 preamp, Vandersteen 2Cs, Systemdek IIX turntable with Audioquest cartridge. Just ordered an Emotiv 2C cd player to replace an aging Denon.

[MoBe]

Sold my Thiel speakers and my turntable but I still have a pair Lazarus hybrid amps and a couple of pre amps,things are quieter these days,oh well,at least I know what time it is.

[padi56]

My own system quite old and most of the best HI-FI units used to be British, or British designed.
I have two very old now Mission Cyrus 11 amps,plus two seperate PSX power supplies makeing them into mono amps one for left channel same for right Arcam CD.Now they push now around 200 watts and high current both into my 8 ohm British TTL studio 10 speakers,they are rated at 70w. But I never have to put the volume above 3-4,and thats quite loud.Now if I turned the volume right up ,into distortion then I would expect the high current clip to the speaker to blow or harm the drivers units but a great sound but today get very little use.I used to have both a Pink Triangle Tarantella record deck with a decca LG cartridge that was superb sound.And IMO the LP still has the edge on all digital music its a more warm feeeling sound.My cd player is a Arcam Alpha 8SE,later had new module put in, to upgrade it to Alpha 9 its well past its sell by date, but still a fine sounding player.But not as good as the Pink Triangle record deck,the most important thing with the mission amps, now they have been mono-ed is the high current output, thats what drives the speakers not so much watts.One of the best sounds I have ever heard was 15 watt valve amp, cannot remember the name,linked up to the Pink Triangle and my speakers.But the sound was unbelievable,totally the best sound I have ever heard.Now the sound difference between the transistor,and valve amp well hard to explain, so I will say difference between chalk and a good cheese.

[dsio]

I'm more a headphone guy,

FLAC -> Xonar D2X with Burr-Brown DACs -> Woo Audio WA3 single ended OTL tube amp -> Sennheiser HD650

None of the music I listen to was out in the vinyl era so digital with some tube warmth thrown in suits me well.

[eman1200]

ok, WTF is wrong with me?!??! am I becoming domesticated?? why did I notice how dusty ur shelves were over the awesome audio equipment you have?! ugh, somebody please smack me!! seriously, nice stuff you got there

[jpgreenwood]

Roksan kandy amp, Shanling CD, Sony DAB tuner, Rega Planar 3 record deck, Acoustic Energy Neo 3 floorstander speakers.

[imono]

I am into old.

[Route 66]

Counterpoint tube preamp

Adcom power amp

Rega Planet CD player

Sonus Faber loudspeakers

I consider myself a recovering audiophile now.

I am for the most part, pleased with my current system...just don't ask me next week.

[joeychitwood]

Amplifier: PS Audio HCA-2 amplifier.
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): Nakamichi CA-7A preamplifier
Speakers: Spendor S9e in Rosenut finish.
Sources:
CD Player/DAC: Rega Apollo CD player
Turntable/Phono Stage: Rega Planar 25, Rega RB-300 arm, Origin Live counterweight and stub, Denon DL-103R MC cartridge, Iron Audio acrylic platter, Wayne Gretsky autographed hockey puck record clamp. All sitting on a 18' X 18' X 1.5' granite slab on Isonodes.
Other Source(s): A Clearaudio Aurum Beta Wood cartridge is now on a Techics SL-1200 in my home theater room.
Other Accessories/Room/Misc.:
Speaker Cables/Interconnects: Goertz Audio Micro Purl Copper IC, Signal speaker cables
Other (Power Conditioner, Racks etc.): Alesis Masterlink 9600 Master Disk Recorder, Goertz Audio Micro Purl Copper interconnects. Stackable hardwood LP boxes from Tony's Woodshop. Audioquest record brush.
Room Size (LxWxH): 15 ft x 15 ft x 8 ft
Room Comments/Treatments: Echo Buster Corner Busters at each room corner.

[sea-dweller]

I am guilty of this, mainly NAD components.

[bayerische]

Guilty.

I have the Bang & Olufsen Beolab 5 speakers. A Beosound 9000 (just for control) feeding my speakers with my Mac Mini.

The speakers are indeed awesome. 2500 watts of active amplification in each. Let's just say, nothing is really too difficult to handle for them. Having amps that are running on "idle" and not close to their maximum output at normal to high sound pressure levels has it's advantages.

I have more invested in Audio equipment than in Watches.

[tattooedfagin]

Michell Gyro SE II / RB 300/OL upgrade arm / Ortofon Kontra B cart'
Mitchell HR PSU
Trichord Delphini Phono / PSU
Musical Fidelity A5
Musical Fidelity KW Transport & DAC
Zingali Overture 2
plus an array of Merlin / Chord / Nordost cables

after a period of serial tweaking i'm now content

[Dr. Robert]

I spent all my money on wine, women, & watches.......for song, ended up w/ my Sony Vaio laptop & an Ipod, a pair of Audioengine self powered desktop speakers, a pair of Grado headphones & Sony earbuds.
Small but powerful......the zen way of music....easily packed when I have to leave in a hurry.

[Watch Professor]

Amp:ADCOM GFA 545II; PreAmp- Adcom GTP 500II; CD player: Denon CDR WI500; Tape: Marantz SD-57; Turntable- MicroSeki; Speakers- Polk 10's.

Old stuff but excellent.

[Lion]

I'm have two Crown DC300A power amps and two IC150A Pre-amps, Marantz 115B tuner, a Nakamichi CD Player2 MusicBank CD player, Phillips 900 Series DCC player, a Beogram4004 turntable and the Chorus2 Klipsch speakers. All in all a nice middle of the road sounding stereo system and I agree vinyl analog records definitely have a warmer fuller sound over digital formats. The only digital format that comes close is DAT players as they do record the full analog sound on tape!!!

[Swearengen]

Linn Axis + Goldring 1022GX
Marantz CD10
Naim 92/140 +SNAPS
Naim Intro Speakers
Nakamichi CR3

[daveathall]

I have a pair of Audeze LCD 2 headphones (also some B&W P5s) a lot of hi def music on my Mac book pro and will be buying an Audiolab M DAC shortly. Other than that I have a Marantz CD receiver, all the music can be streamed to each room in the house using a NAS in conjunction with a Sonus system the works incredibly well.

[clew84]

Definitely my other hobby. I am just now getting into more of the headphone side of things. I like in ear monitors (IEMs) and just ordered a pair of Shure SE535. For my first real pair of cans, I am going with the Sennheiser HD650 as I heard that's a great performer at that price point. Now I just need a desktop/portable amp that will drive both of them, a line out dock from my iPod, and I should be good to go.

As far as my other stuff:

HT room
Dynaudio Contour S3.4 main speakers
Dynaudio Contour SC center
Dynaudio Audience 52SE (surrounds)
SVS PC Ultra Sub
Integra DTC 9.8 preamp/processor
Rotel RMB-1095 power amp
Rotel CD player
Squeezebox Classic

Another hobby that just sucks the money from you.... :)

[Lion]

The B & W P5's are great headphones...everyone should check them out!!!

[joeychitwood]

They weren't expensive, but in my office, I have my iPod loaded with Apple Lossless recordings playing through Audioengine2 powered speakers. I use Audioengine5+ powered speakers in my bedroom with another iPod. The sound is amazing for such small speakers.

[1kw]

Mcinosh MC501x 2 monoamps, Mcintosh C2300 tube pre amp, Mcintosh MCD500 cd/dac, Sonus Faber Elipsa speakers, Michel Gyro SE turntable with SME 309 tone arm. Mcintosh MC207 hometheater amp, JL audio F112 subs. x 2, Magnepan IIIa speakers, Mcintosh rear surround HT-3 speakers, Oppo 95 blu ray player etc. etc.

[daveathall]

Originally Posted by clew84

Definitely my other hobby. I am just now getting into more of the headphone side of things. I like in ear monitors (IEMs) and just ordered a pair of Shure SE535. For my first real pair of cans, I am going with the Sennheiser HD650 as I heard that's a great performer at that price point. Now I just need a desktop/portable amp that will drive both of them, a line out dock from my iPod, and I should be good to go.

Chris, I have listened to the Sennheiser HD650s, you won't be disappointed, wonderful. I have not listened to the Shure IEM but have read good things about them, I opted for the Sennheiser IE8s which I love. I have a LOD for my iPod Classic and feed it into a JustAudio uHA-120 which is excellent.

http://www.justaudio.co.uk/uha-120.html

Fiio also make some brilliant and not expensive portable audio equipment.

[joeychitwood]

Also inexpensive is my HRT Music Streamer+ USB D/A Converter through which I play all of the music files on my computer through my audio system. I highly recommend it if you are interested in a low-cost music server setup.

From Art Dudley's review of the HRT in Stereophile magazine:

"Every now and then, an affordable product comes along that's so good, even wealthy shoppers want it.....Would I spend $299 for access to exponentially more music than I have, played back with good if not great sound? You bet. If there's another way in which so little money can bring so much music to an existing system, I haven't heard it."

[apeogre]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robert

I spent all my money on wine, women, & watches.......for song, ended up w/ my Sony Vaio laptop & an Ipod, a pair of Audioengine self powered desktop speakers, a pair of Grado headphones & Sony earbuds.
Small but powerful......the zen way of music....easily packed when I have to leave in a hurry.

Good choice of priorities...wine and women.

[apeogre]

I'm trying to find a nice and durable set of earbuds. I owned a pair of monster turbine gold, but just the other day on a plane flight they took a dive one me. The only thing that was available at LAX was a pair of beats by dre. they sound pretty good, but I am still looking for something with a bit better sound. I tried a pair of shure 325's and they didn't fit in my ears very well. They sat, for lack of a better word, wonky. I'm rather hard on my stuff, so if anyone has any suggestions it would be appreciated. I don't like large headphones as I wear them underneath my headset when I fly.