Another imterest is 2-channel music reproduction. Hi-fi.

View from the listening position...my listening consists of string quartets(mostly Beethoven) almost exclusively.

Cody

Vintage Teac A-3300SX 2-channel 7 1/2" IPS tape recorder, VTL American Deluxe preamplifier w/phono, VTL 75/75 Deluxe amplifier, Monster HPTS 7000 power conditioner.

VTL TL-5 preamplifier, VTL TL-5 preamplifier power supply, VTL ST-85 power amp. Only vintage Telefunken and Siemens tubes are run as current productuion Eastern Block tubes sound dreadfully pinched, muffled, undetailed and grey.

Cody

Teac A-3300SX 15-IPS tape recorder, some early Magnavox CD player, Nakamichi CR-1A cassette recorder, McIntosh MC 2105 solid state power amp.

The McIntosh amp is both one of the most beautiful audio devices ever created and also a back-up should both tube amps simultaneously become DOA. The high speed tape recorder is for the occasional audiophile 'fix' with the CD player and cassette unit as more or less 'de rigeur'.

Project Perspective turntable with Monster Genesis 1000 cartridge and custom machined(by me) counterweight. The turntable in the upper-right of the first post is a total hot-rod consisting of an AR ES-1, plinth and platter hub, Thorens platter, Linn suspension, Rega RB-300 arm w/Incognito wiring, AudioQuest 'sorbothane' platter mat, custom machined(again, by me) counterweight, armboard and record clamp. The hot-rod sounds totally AWESOME and is my default player.

Cody

View to the right of listening position -

Some old and sentimental SS gear is under the table on which rests the record cleaner.

View behind listening position -

Cody, I am in awe! That is some great stuff and I have a few hundred vinyl records as well. I love the warm sound of the tube stuff. I still have my Sony reel to reel from Viet Nam and the radio transmissions recorded over some of my best tunes. It's spooky to be listening to the Temtations and hearing the co-ordinates for a fire mission being called in from a remote fire base.

Mark

Wow, I have not seen electron tubes since 1966 when I got out of the Army. Most of the Nike Hercules radar was electon tube.

I bought a Sony reel-to-reel through the PX in early 66. Threw it in the trash in '80.

Dave