Show me your ****(embly), and let me get in your guts baby!

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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,404
    edited March 2005
    Front
    Dodd - Battery Preamp
    Monarchy Audio SE100 Delux - mono power amps
    Sony DVP-NS999ES - SACD player
    ADS 1230 - Polk SDA 2B
    DIY Stereo Subwoofer towers w/(4) 12 drivers each
    Crown K1 - Subwoofer amp
    Outlaw ICBM - crossover
    Beringher BFD - sub eq

    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

    "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,404
    edited March 2005
    rear
    Dodd - Battery Preamp
    Monarchy Audio SE100 Delux - mono power amps
    Sony DVP-NS999ES - SACD player
    ADS 1230 - Polk SDA 2B
    DIY Stereo Subwoofer towers w/(4) 12 drivers each
    Crown K1 - Subwoofer amp
    Outlaw ICBM - crossover
    Beringher BFD - sub eq

    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

    "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
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  • hoosier21
    hoosier21 Posts: 4,404
    edited March 2005
    Guts
    Dodd - Battery Preamp
    Monarchy Audio SE100 Delux - mono power amps
    Sony DVP-NS999ES - SACD player
    ADS 1230 - Polk SDA 2B
    DIY Stereo Subwoofer towers w/(4) 12 drivers each
    Crown K1 - Subwoofer amp
    Outlaw ICBM - crossover
    Beringher BFD - sub eq

    Where is the remote? Where is the $%#$% remote!

    "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us have...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited March 2005
    NICE! :D
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,531
    edited March 2005
    Looking good Russ....I bet Bruce is lurking and drooling :)
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited March 2005
    I could take some pics of my Myryad amp... and maybe the Denon 3805 if anyone is interested.
    Never kick a fresh **** on a hot day.

    Home Setup: Sony VPL-VW85 Projo, 92" Stewart Firehawk, Pioneer Elite SC-65, PS3, RTi12 fronts, CSi5, FXi6 rears, RTi6 surround backs, RTi4 height, MFW-15 Subwoofer.

    Car Setup: OEM Radio, RF 360.2v2, Polk SR6500 quad amped off 4 Xtant 1.1 100w mono amps, Xtant 6.1 to run an eD 13av.2, all Stinger wiring and Raammat deadener.
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,531
    edited March 2005
    PJ - I use those same dampers....did you notice an changes? I didn't really bother listening for them as the purpose of them alone made me feel better about using them. They look cool huh? :)

    Tryrrthg - The McCormack looks nice, thanks for the picture.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited March 2005
    what the heck, heres mine... not alot inside..

    Just received my Mullard 6x4 rectifier, and a tri of telefunken 12ax7's
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited March 2005
    and the front panel
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,502
    edited March 2005
    This audio **** is giving me wood.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • pjdami
    pjdami Posts: 1,894
    edited March 2005
    Originally posted by dorokusai
    PJ - I use those same dampers....did you notice an changes? I didn't really bother listening for them as the purpose of them alone made me feel better about using them. They look cool huh? :)

    Doro,
    Well I swapped out tubes at the same time and then put all the screws back on the lid. It certainly didn't degrade the sound any that I can tell.

    I also use the tube damping HAL-Os on the Jolida cdp. The rings in combination with the "blue ball" isolation rack I made has yielded some nice gains as a cumulative effect on pinpoint placement / focus and separation in the sound. I feel that these small tweaks alone may be hard to recognize but when you start adding a few together and then you take them all away then one may notice a difference. Here too though, no harm done by the tweaks and it leaves one with some peace of mind that you've done everything you can at a small and very reasonable cost. Systems certainly sound good that's for sure.

    I was going to go with the Pearl Tube Coolers, but after reading posts by others who had owned both, the general consensus was that the Herbie product was superior.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Old School Posts: 10,177
    edited March 2005
    Originally posted by dorokusai
    Looking good Russ....I bet Bruce is lurking and drooling :)
    Not any more than usual... but I have been trying to call Russ....
    More later,
    Tour...
    Vox Copuli
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb

    "Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
    "It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
    "There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2005
    Parasound HALO A-23 amp. :)

    Speakers
    Carver Amazing Fronts
    CS400i Center
    RT800i's Rears
    Sub Paradigm Servo 15

    Electronics
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 pre-amp
    Parasound Halo A23
    Pioneer 84TXSi AVR
    Pioneer 79Avi DVD
    Sony CX400 CD changer
    Panasonic 42-PX60U Plasma
    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2005
    .

    Speakers
    Carver Amazing Fronts
    CS400i Center
    RT800i's Rears
    Sub Paradigm Servo 15

    Electronics
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 pre-amp
    Parasound Halo A23
    Pioneer 84TXSi AVR
    Pioneer 79Avi DVD
    Sony CX400 CD changer
    Panasonic 42-PX60U Plasma
    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2005
    Guts

    Speakers
    Carver Amazing Fronts
    CS400i Center
    RT800i's Rears
    Sub Paradigm Servo 15

    Electronics
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 pre-amp
    Parasound Halo A23
    Pioneer 84TXSi AVR
    Pioneer 79Avi DVD
    Sony CX400 CD changer
    Panasonic 42-PX60U Plasma
    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,531
    edited March 2005
    You gotta' love a Makers Mark colored toroid.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited March 2005
    Doro,

    I love everything about that amp, Great Design, Great Build, Nice front LED's, Sound neutral from nothing to everything 0% to 100% never changes sound, never colors music.

    Thanks again Doro for talking me into that brand, I'm sold. Can't afford everything about that company, but what I own is sweet.

    Speakers
    Carver Amazing Fronts
    CS400i Center
    RT800i's Rears
    Sub Paradigm Servo 15

    Electronics
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 pre-amp
    Parasound Halo A23
    Pioneer 84TXSi AVR
    Pioneer 79Avi DVD
    Sony CX400 CD changer
    Panasonic 42-PX60U Plasma
    WMC Win7 32bit HD DVR


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  • tryrrthg
    tryrrthg Posts: 1,896
    edited March 2005
    Originally posted by dorokusai
    Tryrrthg - The McCormack looks nice, thanks for the picture.
    Not quite as flashy as the rest of these pieces but she sure does sing!
    Sony KDL-40V2500 HDTV, Rotel RSX-1067 Receiver, Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray, Slim Devices Squeezebox, Polk RTi6, CSi3 & R15, DIY sub with Atlas 15
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited March 2005
    figured I'm sitting here bored and sick so might as well do something.

    The back of the Denon 3805...
    denon-back.jpg

    The guts...
    denon-guts.jpg

    The face of the Myryad MA-500...
    myryad-face.jpg

    The ****...
    myryad-back.jpg

    The guts...
    myryad-guts1.jpg

    myryad-guts2.jpg

    I was definitely impressed the Myryad. Looks to be VERY well built. Weighs in at 43lbs and the Denon weighs 37lbs. Not to shabby!
    Never kick a fresh **** on a hot day.

    Home Setup: Sony VPL-VW85 Projo, 92" Stewart Firehawk, Pioneer Elite SC-65, PS3, RTi12 fronts, CSi5, FXi6 rears, RTi6 surround backs, RTi4 height, MFW-15 Subwoofer.

    Car Setup: OEM Radio, RF 360.2v2, Polk SR6500 quad amped off 4 Xtant 1.1 100w mono amps, Xtant 6.1 to run an eD 13av.2, all Stinger wiring and Raammat deadener.
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited April 2005
    Ah! 4000 before upsampler install
    Cary SLP-98L F1 DC Pre Amp (Jag Blue)
    Parasound HCA-3500
    Cary Audio V12 amp (Jag Red)
    Polk Audio Xm Reciever (Autographed by THE MAN Himself) :cool:
    Magnum Dynalab MD-102 Analog Tuna
    Jolida JD-100 CDP
    Polk Audio LSi9 Speaks (ebony)
    SVS PC-Ultra Sub
    AQ Bedrock Speaker Cables (Bi-Wired)
    MIT Shotgun S1 I/C`s
    AQ Black Thunder Sub Cables
    PS Audio Plus Power Cords
    Magnum Dynalab ST-2 FM Antenna
    Sanus Cherry wood Speak Stands
    Adona AV45CS3 / 3 Tier Rack (Black /Gold)

    :cool:
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 26,233
    edited April 2005
    B&K ST125.2

    125x2 8 ohms

    BK2.jpg
    - Front Faceplate, kind of hard to take a picture of the faceplate, it is silver and it 'shines'...only way to do it is take a dark pic...sucks...but ya know! Awesome looking amp!

    BK.jpg
    Here is the rear of the unit, has XLR and RCA hook ups, and nice big speaker terminals which annoy me to death... not so bad now that I have nanners

    BKInternals1.jpg
    Here is where everything seems to run to, must be the mastermind... also kind of explains why the left side of the amp is so hot while the right side is cold as an icecube...NICE big heat sinks...I like it!

    BKInternals3.jpg
    Here is the layout of the amp, two big blue bad arse caps and a nice big toridial transformer! AWESOME! I also like how this amp looks easy to repair, infact...it would be extremely easy to replace some of thise internal wiring...*ponders*

    BKInternals2.jpg
    Yall shoulda known I couldnt go without including a big picture of the BIG BLUE BAD ARSE caps didnt ya?? Well here it is! BIG AND BLUE...

    Thats my B&K, have fun :p :cool:
    - Not Tom

    "No, that's silly talk. Dude, you can't possibly be this audio dumb so quit the act." - Doro
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  • Kevinvb11
    Kevinvb11 Posts: 105
    edited April 2005
    Regarding the AMC, cost aside, were you disapointed when you first opened it up? I mean, it looks like very little to expect good performance or value. Not to imply that bigger is better and that more IS better.

    These AMC's are known as entry level seperates and have a bit of a following for being better/higher quality than pioneer and denon when it comes to certain products, players, amps etc. etc.

    From that picture I see little to indicate and anything more than a cool case and a zenith inside. Not trying to offend or anything just my simple opinion.

    Kevin
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,502
    edited April 2005
    Looks like a clean, simple layout--which is exactly what you want in a preamp. I bet that sucker sounds pretty smooth.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited April 2005
    ZERO,

    I agree..

    I have a carver m200t and a parasound P/HP, and they are what also showed me what I was missing with just a Yamaha AVR on my RT2000i`s...

    they were the inexspensive beginnings of what has become my
    love/obsession with mid/upper audio...

    It`s been downhill ever since...!!!:D
    Cary SLP-98L F1 DC Pre Amp (Jag Blue)
    Parasound HCA-3500
    Cary Audio V12 amp (Jag Red)
    Polk Audio Xm Reciever (Autographed by THE MAN Himself) :cool:
    Magnum Dynalab MD-102 Analog Tuna
    Jolida JD-100 CDP
    Polk Audio LSi9 Speaks (ebony)
    SVS PC-Ultra Sub
    AQ Bedrock Speaker Cables (Bi-Wired)
    MIT Shotgun S1 I/C`s
    AQ Black Thunder Sub Cables
    PS Audio Plus Power Cords
    Magnum Dynalab ST-2 FM Antenna
    Sanus Cherry wood Speak Stands
    Adona AV45CS3 / 3 Tier Rack (Black /Gold)

    :cool:
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,502
    edited April 2005
    Ain't that the truth. The more you know, the less you want to know...LOL
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • beardog03
    beardog03 Posts: 5,550
    edited April 2005
    agreed..

    Ill second that..!!




    but ....
    Thanks to this forum and the guys on it( you know who you are), I have really come up...

    and my back account has really gone down..!!







    way down....
    Cary SLP-98L F1 DC Pre Amp (Jag Blue)
    Parasound HCA-3500
    Cary Audio V12 amp (Jag Red)
    Polk Audio Xm Reciever (Autographed by THE MAN Himself) :cool:
    Magnum Dynalab MD-102 Analog Tuna
    Jolida JD-100 CDP
    Polk Audio LSi9 Speaks (ebony)
    SVS PC-Ultra Sub
    AQ Bedrock Speaker Cables (Bi-Wired)
    MIT Shotgun S1 I/C`s
    AQ Black Thunder Sub Cables
    PS Audio Plus Power Cords
    Magnum Dynalab ST-2 FM Antenna
    Sanus Cherry wood Speak Stands
    Adona AV45CS3 / 3 Tier Rack (Black /Gold)

    :cool:
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,048
    edited April 2005
    JBL Lancer 44.

    If you ever want to part with those please give me a heads up first.
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,048
    edited April 2005
    Upon 2nd look I'd say Lancer 77s.

    Edit: Ooops no tweeter. 33s then.
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,531
    edited April 2005
    The first guess was correct Gidrah.....Lancer 44....with a nice nameplate on the back with "John B Lansing's" name proudly displayed.

    Russman commented that the driver complement is a 8" full range and an 8" PR. I have allready given them to Russman otherwise I would certainly have shipped them to you for free also.

    What goodie would you like? I have all kinds of stuff. Let me know something that you need.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,048
    edited April 2005
    DAMN! Those LE8t's and PR8's make for a smooooth combo. With tubes it's even more so.

    I'm set for freebies. Unless you happen to have a spare disco ball laying around. :D
    Make it Funky! :)
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