Please tell us about yourself and your hi-fi system and/or musical tastes.
Hi from UglyMusic, named after my notorious (in some circles) music collection.
Yep. I'm 100% streaming digital and 100% CD before that.
Hi ,my name is Keith Cooper, ( coops) I own Purite Audio ,I am a dealer but I would like to think I still have my integrity!
I hope Audio Chews has a bright future.
Forgot to mention my system, horns are always here ( to big to move ) a small 10 watt class A single ended amp and at the moment a Trinnov room correction box which is my preamp I use a MacBook Pro as source.
Music taste is very wide, pretty much anything. I've a particular penchant for jazz, blues and folk (preferably acoustic) and much less rock than it used to be.
Far too much kit to list it all I'm afraid.
Also for convenience a Linux laptop running into a DAC Magic II.
My musical tastes: Funk, jazz, good hip-hop, female vox, indie, electro and ambient.
I work as a teacher in a pupil referral centre (school for excluded kids).
My music tastes are under-developed & limited, but I appreciate most things. Dad left me with a taste for stomping Big Bands of Basie's ilk - to this day my desert island disc is Sinatra & Basie live at the sands. I have a love for blues & most folky-type music, particularly bluegrass. At the moment I am going through a Lyle Lovett phase, as I love the way he tells a story with wit & charm. His records are musically superb also, with great production. I also remain a bit of a rock monster, and a lover of all things New Orleans.
Beresford Caiman DAC with Gator (on borrowed time?) - DACs have been in flux for the past year.
Belkin PF-40 mains thingy for everything but the amp.
My system plays music pretty nicely - that's all there is to it really. I hope it gives some of the best of both the flat & the round earth - I have heard examples of both genres that are one-trick ponies. I want it all...within reason. and budget.
Compression drivers, nice. And the wooden horns look fantastic.
Yes ,not helped by the collapse of Sterling, there are a few posters on HiFi Wigwam who have made their own and they appear to be getting decent results, so it doesn't have to cost fortune.
Does that mean the design is available or is a kit for sale?
I'm half a horn person. I love the impact and drive they give but having used OBs for so long now I can't abide the colouration particularly across the mid band.
I've never heard compression drivers, never had the opportunity. But I've heard many front horns which suffer distortion much less than folded back horns.
proper horns are just extremely dynamic and IMHO just more real than any other design.
Hi all and thanks to Ben for the invitation to join.
Macbook Pro/Audiosmile DEQ DAC/ADC for streaming and committing A to D.
This Macbook is fitted with a 1TB HD and contains around 1300 albums stored in Apple Lossless.
Quad 34/405-2 amplification. I've completely rebuilt these with great results.
Wires - I built my own from good quality stuff designed for pro use.
Hello Rob, great to have you here. I hope we can make something good here.
Ixos speaker cables - the ones that beat my MIT AVtS1 cables at the London Bake-Off Show!
HiFace Evo asynchronous interface, fed from a Zotac mini-PC. Both these are powered by Paul Hynes Design PSUs.
Mains stuff that some of you may have seen at the bake-off show includes a PS Audio Power Plant Premier and quite a lot of Vertex AQ mains leads.
I do like tinkering with vinyl, but I'm very keen to get a good sound out of the Zotac mini-PC and HiFace Evo, so it's good to see Uglymusic here, as he's ahead of me in computer audio. The Evo is brand new so needs bedding in, so I'm going to let it sit and run in for a few weeks before getting serious.
Hello Hugo - great you could join in. You have a lot of interesting gear there - have you been playing at this hooby for long?
Hi Hugo. Glad you could join.
What an amazing list of kit!
Someone had better explain that to me someday :-"
Actually, I'm itching to hear your system, as your Garrard seemed to be doing some great things rhythm-wise at the show.
hello guys , my name's sergio i wrote from milan , italy , ciao a tutti !
Hi. My name is Jerry.. I am a classical music fan, mainly, and an unashamed hifi box-swapper.
Alan invited me to join, so you can blame him.
You are very welcome, and we'll help you through this in any way we can!
Hello from Macnugget, named after my our two lovely (Mac is no longer with us) welsh springers. Thanks Alan for inviting me to this new forum.
I hope you're enjoying Christmas!
I listen to all sorts of music in particular good female vocals with decent recordings, also likes a lot of the 80's stuff.
Just got rid of my beloved CD player and moving towards digital streaming route as soon as the new dac arrive.
Have had 30 plus pairs of speakers over the last three four years due to a very understanding wife.
I now realised this is a very subjective hobby and still believe there is a type of system's sound that would please 75% of audophiles out there. The warmish sound that I was familiar with in the 80's.
My real name's Richard, and I've been a hifi nut/bodger/wrecker/geek since I was about 5 years old when my dad got his first system. I got my own rig in about 1978 consisting of hand-me-downs from the old man. I've been a professional clarinettist for the last 27 years and do a bit of teaching now and again...plus I'm a reasonably incompetent pianist and conductor.
The rig's somewhat in a state of flux - I totally upset its balance about 9 months ago and whilst the digital side of things is going well, I really need to get my *rse in gear and sort the turntable. Bottom line is a miss direct drive....next year's going to be fun, I hope.
Welcome on board. I was quite keen to try out the Inca amp myself and never had a chance to listen to them before, so what are they like? What amps did you tried before you settle on the Inca? I know they were designed to better the Nait at the time.
Hi Jon - welcome to this most pleasant little corner of the www.
MacNugget - the Claymore's a little bit of a find to be honest. I can remember a certain Mr Frankland going ga-ga over it many years ago in that erstwhile publication 'The Flat Response' and whilst always taking his (very narrow minded) view of the hifi world with a pinch of salt, I often wondered how good this amp would be.
I've owned a fair few Farlow-era Exposure amps and a few Naims over the years, and to own another amp from the mid-80's school of the British Black Box would be a bit of fun. I haven't regretted buying it - it's got a reasonable amount of power (50w/ch) and can summon a fair head of steam. It hasn't got the grip or control of my previous set up (Exposure XXIRC/Super XVIII monos) but it's sweeter, quite lyrical but with excellent bass - full, but with good pitch definition; a very important factor for me. For 200 quid (and this one's in nigh on mint condition) it's been a very good buy.
Glad you could come along.
I'm assuming you have a bundle of Avondale kit... Or do you?
I've set one up for you.
monos and REV1 speakers ..the rest of the kit is HYperspace TT/Ekos/ArkivB into a TE groove.
No probs. I'm interested to see what you'll post there. I'm not really a DIYer.
The Inca is the one in my wanted list at the moment along side with Lentek Integrated, Exposure X, NVA Integrated and pre power combo, Naim 72/140.
How is the Inca compare to the Naim stuff?