TC-377
Dump find. Works well (except the counter belt needs to be replaced)
Decent sounding basic mechanical transport, single motor, three-head deck. Good for auditioning found tapes.
If I had a nickel for everytime I saw that pic I'd be a gazillionaire...
If didn't have all that junk, maybe I would be too.
Are you calling my Bryston DAC junk?
Did you ever use it?
ahem, sorry
I use it daily, that's why it is sitting there.
Everything else. Everything else is junk.
Well - except the Amp Camp Amp @ALL212 built.
Oh, and the Bottlehead Reduction of @mrbiron which is still being held hostage.
Anyone have a finished V2 of the ACA? Board layout looks different.
I know you'll all be shocked but I've built the Frugal Horns (a tad harsh with the cones I chose and I don't remember which cones I chose). I've built both the Bottlehead S.E.X (V2) and Stereomour (V1).
The S.E.X can do both headphones and speakers (although very low power, 2W), sounds great but box is crowded - doable - but not a lot of room to play with. Get the impedance switch's with it and you can match it to your cans or speakers.
Stereomour is more expensive but there's room under the hood. Also sounds great and has a bit more power (3.5w). No headphone.
Either of them can become your life long friend with the right speakers.
TC-377
Dump find. Works well (except the counter belt needs to be replaced)
Decent sounding basic mechanical transport, single motor, three-head deck. Good for auditioning found tapes.
Hey! I had one of those until about 2 years ago. Must have bought it in the late 1970's (?). Used it so much that the tape guides had to rotated periodically due to wear, but the heads seemed to hold up quite well. Finally tossed it out when the motor failed.
Does Polk have any offerings that would pair nicely with a lower powered (Bottlehead Sex, et, al) amp?
A good question!
No not really. The Monitor Series Model 9A was pretty sensitive and works pretty well with low-powered vacuum tube amplifiers; I don't think I've ever tried them with fleapower, though.
Be fun to get a pair and run them as 20 wpc mono's.
"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass
Pass Aleph 30 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Plus DAC | MIT Shotgun S3 | MIT Z P/C's | updated SDA 1C| SQ Box Touch/Welbourne Labs P/S-Tubes add soul!
I am resisting only because I don't have a pre-amp to pair with this. I want it just for the build experience, but it appears to sound very good to excellent as well.
H9
"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass
Pass Aleph 30 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Plus DAC | MIT Shotgun S3 | MIT Z P/C's | updated SDA 1C| SQ Box Touch/Welbourne Labs P/S-Tubes add soul!
"Electronic music is human sound adapting to indulge technology, and for some, it feels like the signature sound of energy. New and abstract sounds over hypnotic rhythms can conjure vast soundscapes for escape, pleasure, and transcendence."
It is important (essential) to have cannon fodder speakers for test purposes -- especially with direct coupled solid state equipment. Don't ask me how I learned this.
I'm lucky I still have good hearing although ringing started a year or more ago and it has nothing to do with that explosion years ago. I only blew one tweeter. That's all.
Polk Audio made a TOUGH speaker system with those RT3000Ps. To take a direct short and only have one tweeter blow, that's impressive.
I thought I blew every speaker in all 4 units. My wife jumped up and came into the room to see if I was alright what the heck just happened. It sounded like a truck backfired in the room. I almost soiled myself!
Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
I don't want no stink'n Dayens, I want to sling solder!
You barely have time to listen to your Zu's..... solder is a pipe dream lol....
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
They haven't whispered to me in a good long while. Though they should like where they are heading in t-minus 7 months
I'm very excited for you man! I'm also very jealous lol....
"....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
Comments
TC-377
Dump find. Works well (except the counter belt needs to be replaced)
Decent sounding basic mechanical transport, single motor, three-head deck. Good for auditioning found tapes.
ahem, sorry
I use it daily, that's why it is sitting there.
Everything else. Everything else is junk.
Well - except the Amp Camp Amp @ALL212 built.
Oh, and the Bottlehead Reduction of @mrbiron which is still being held hostage.
And anything else I got from you guys here!
I know you'll all be shocked but I've built the Frugal Horns (a tad harsh with the cones I chose and I don't remember which cones I chose). I've built both the Bottlehead S.E.X (V2) and Stereomour (V1).
The S.E.X can do both headphones and speakers (although very low power, 2W), sounds great but box is crowded - doable - but not a lot of room to play with. Get the impedance switch's with it and you can match it to your cans or speakers.
Stereomour is more expensive but there's room under the hood. Also sounds great and has a bit more power (3.5w). No headphone.
Either of them can become your life long friend with the right speakers.
Enabler Extraordinaire
Hey! I had one of those until about 2 years ago. Must have bought it in the late 1970's (?). Used it so much that the tape guides had to rotated periodically due to wear, but the heads seemed to hold up quite well. Finally tossed it out when the motor failed.
Cheers, Jim
Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, PASS ACA Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
Spare Room: , Antique Sound Labs Wave AV-8 Monoblocks, Tisbury Mini Passive Pre, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
A good question!
No not really. The Monitor Series Model 9A was pretty sensitive and works pretty well with low-powered vacuum tube amplifiers; I don't think I've ever tried them with fleapower, though.
It is a testable hypothesis
Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, PASS ACA Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
Spare Room: , Antique Sound Labs Wave AV-8 Monoblocks, Tisbury Mini Passive Pre, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
Too bad you don't live closer...
Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, PASS ACA Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
Spare Room: , Antique Sound Labs Wave AV-8 Monoblocks, Tisbury Mini Passive Pre, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
Amp Camp Kits are back in stock. Err, for Pre-Order.
https://diyaudiostore.com/collections/frontpage/products/amp-camp-amp-kit
http://www.hifihaven.org/index.php?threads/back-on-the-wait-list.3540
Living Room Music parallel system-2.0 Klipsch RP600-M | PASS ACA Class A Balanced Monoblocks fed by C47 XLR Out 2
Family Room Home Theater-7.2.2 (Atmos) Polk LSi25, Martin Logan Motion 50xt, Dual DSW microPRO 3000, fx500, T15, RC65i | Marantz SR7009 | McIntosh MA5200 HT-passthrough & independent 2.0 | Sony UBP-X800 4K | Xbox One S 4K | AppleTV | HTPC | Sony 75” XBR X850D 4K
Office Home Theater-5.1 Polk RT55, CS400, PSW450, T15 | Onkyo TX-SR705 | Xbox 360 MCE | AppleTV | Samsung 55”
Office Music-2.0 KEF Q100 | Sansui AU-6900 | Sansui FR-1080
Master Bedroom Music-2.0 Totem Hawk | Rotel RA-1570
Patio Music-2.0 Polk Atrium8 | AMC 2445 bridged
Airplay zones: Family Room (HDMI), Master Bedroom (Optical), Office (HDMI), Living Room (Optical), MA5200 (Optical), SR7009 (AVR direct) and Patio (analog). MacMini iTunes multi-stream to any, combo or all.
Spares: Polk LSiC, CS300, T15, Martin Logan Motion 40, Dynamo 500, Rotel RB-1590, Denon AVR-4802R, Onkyo DX-C540, Sony CDP-491, STR DE715, DVP-S500D, PS HX-500
Maintenance: Pro-Ject VC-S Record Cleaning Machine
Pass Aleph 30 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Plus DAC | MIT Shotgun S3 | MIT Z P/C's | updated SDA 1C| SQ Box Touch/Welbourne Labs P/S- Tubes add soul!
Office: PC, EAR Acute CD Player, EAR 834L Pre, PASS ACA Monoblocks, Denon UDR-F10 Cassette, Acoustic Technologies Classic FR Speakers, SVS SB12 Plus sub, MIT AVt2 speaker cables, IFI Purifier2, AQ Cinnamon USB cable, Groneberg Quatro Reference IC's
Spare Room: , Antique Sound Labs Wave AV-8 Monoblocks, Tisbury Mini Passive Pre, Tjoeb 99 tube CD player (modified Marantz CD-38), Analysis Plus Oval 9's, Zu Jumpers, AudioEngine B1 Streamer, Klipsch RB-61 v2, SVS PB1000 sub, Blue Jeans RCA IC's
Living Room: Peachtree Nova Integrated, Cambridge CXN v2 Streamer, Furman 15PFi Power Conditioner, Polk RT265 In Wall Speakers, Polk DSW Pro 660wi sub
H9
Pass Aleph 30 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Plus DAC | MIT Shotgun S3 | MIT Z P/C's | updated SDA 1C| SQ Box Touch/Welbourne Labs P/S- Tubes add soul!
Past project: -BTW ignore those speakers, those are RadioShack Optimus, sacrificial set incase my amp project blows up a speaker...
Living Room Music parallel system-2.0 Klipsch RP600-M | PASS ACA Class A Balanced Monoblocks fed by C47 XLR Out 2
Family Room Home Theater-7.2.2 (Atmos) Polk LSi25, Martin Logan Motion 50xt, Dual DSW microPRO 3000, fx500, T15, RC65i | Marantz SR7009 | McIntosh MA5200 HT-passthrough & independent 2.0 | Sony UBP-X800 4K | Xbox One S 4K | AppleTV | HTPC | Sony 75” XBR X850D 4K
Office Home Theater-5.1 Polk RT55, CS400, PSW450, T15 | Onkyo TX-SR705 | Xbox 360 MCE | AppleTV | Samsung 55”
Office Music-2.0 KEF Q100 | Sansui AU-6900 | Sansui FR-1080
Master Bedroom Music-2.0 Totem Hawk | Rotel RA-1570
Patio Music-2.0 Polk Atrium8 | AMC 2445 bridged
Airplay zones: Family Room (HDMI), Master Bedroom (Optical), Office (HDMI), Living Room (Optical), MA5200 (Optical), SR7009 (AVR direct) and Patio (analog). MacMini iTunes multi-stream to any, combo or all.
Spares: Polk LSiC, CS300, T15, Martin Logan Motion 40, Dynamo 500, Rotel RB-1590, Denon AVR-4802R, Onkyo DX-C540, Sony CDP-491, STR DE715, DVP-S500D, PS HX-500
Maintenance: Pro-Ject VC-S Record Cleaning Machine
BAM!
Polk Audio made a TOUGH speaker system with those RT3000Ps. To take a direct short and only have one tweeter blow, that's impressive.
I thought I blew every speaker in all 4 units. My wife jumped up and came into the room to see if I was alright what the heck just happened. It sounded like a truck backfired in the room. I almost soiled myself!
Living Room Music parallel system-2.0 Klipsch RP600-M | PASS ACA Class A Balanced Monoblocks fed by C47 XLR Out 2
Family Room Home Theater-7.2.2 (Atmos) Polk LSi25, Martin Logan Motion 50xt, Dual DSW microPRO 3000, fx500, T15, RC65i | Marantz SR7009 | McIntosh MA5200 HT-passthrough & independent 2.0 | Sony UBP-X800 4K | Xbox One S 4K | AppleTV | HTPC | Sony 75” XBR X850D 4K
Office Home Theater-5.1 Polk RT55, CS400, PSW450, T15 | Onkyo TX-SR705 | Xbox 360 MCE | AppleTV | Samsung 55”
Office Music-2.0 KEF Q100 | Sansui AU-6900 | Sansui FR-1080
Master Bedroom Music-2.0 Totem Hawk | Rotel RA-1570
Patio Music-2.0 Polk Atrium8 | AMC 2445 bridged
Airplay zones: Family Room (HDMI), Master Bedroom (Optical), Office (HDMI), Living Room (Optical), MA5200 (Optical), SR7009 (AVR direct) and Patio (analog). MacMini iTunes multi-stream to any, combo or all.
Spares: Polk LSiC, CS300, T15, Martin Logan Motion 40, Dynamo 500, Rotel RB-1590, Denon AVR-4802R, Onkyo DX-C540, Sony CDP-491, STR DE715, DVP-S500D, PS HX-500
Maintenance: Pro-Ject VC-S Record Cleaning Machine
That Dayens sounds right up your alley!
I don't want no stink'n Dayens, I want to sling solder!
You barely have time to listen to your Zu's..... solder is a pipe dream lol....
They haven't whispered to me in a good long while. Though they should like where they are heading in t-minus 7 months
I'm very excited for you man! I'm also very jealous lol....