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Just as I get the main system settled into the new room upstairs, and plan for listening, rather than constant work, the remaining pieces of my "new" vintage system arrive tomorrow.
1. Early SP-10 (not a mk ii or iii) that Bill Thalmann restored, updated with the Krebs mods (not sure, but this may have been the first 'mk 1' he's done), new plinth set up for multiple arms. I plan to have David help me with a 3012r as the primary arm, once I get to that stage.
2. McI- MX 110z- the only piece in this system I bought recently- it was a clean, unmolested unit. (A big old school McI from the early '60s with a very good tuner and preamp-I didn't want to spend the money for a Marantz 7 tube unit and having owned an ARC SP3-a-1 when it was new, wanted something different). Bill Thalmann restored this piece as well.
3. Quad II amps- restored by Thalmann, with NOS GEC KT-66s!
4. my old Quad Loudspeakers, which I've owned since 1973. They were in need of restoration, so when I left NY, I shipped the speakers to Kent McCollum. They are here, waiting to be hooked up.
I will post some photos of this second system once I get it installed. It is intended for casual listening, including during dinner parties or just for background while cooking or reading.
I'm not using fancy cable. I have a spool of 12 gauge copper speaker cable that I will terminate with some crimp on copper lugs. Interconnect will be modest, e.g. Wireworld copper shielded cable.
No provision for digital in this one (yet). I wouldn't mind finding a nice sounding redbook CD player-- i have a few thousand CDs that I accumulated--many given to me by the labels and publishers at the time of release--that I wouldn't mind hearing, since they contain music I don't necessarily have on vinyl.
More to come. Just when you thought you were out....
(I'm really looking forward to hearing the old Quads with the amps, all freshly restored).
1. Early SP-10 (not a mk ii or iii) that Bill Thalmann restored, updated with the Krebs mods (not sure, but this may have been the first 'mk 1' he's done), new plinth set up for multiple arms. I plan to have David help me with a 3012r as the primary arm, once I get to that stage.
2. McI- MX 110z- the only piece in this system I bought recently- it was a clean, unmolested unit. (A big old school McI from the early '60s with a very good tuner and preamp-I didn't want to spend the money for a Marantz 7 tube unit and having owned an ARC SP3-a-1 when it was new, wanted something different). Bill Thalmann restored this piece as well.
3. Quad II amps- restored by Thalmann, with NOS GEC KT-66s!
4. my old Quad Loudspeakers, which I've owned since 1973. They were in need of restoration, so when I left NY, I shipped the speakers to Kent McCollum. They are here, waiting to be hooked up.
I will post some photos of this second system once I get it installed. It is intended for casual listening, including during dinner parties or just for background while cooking or reading.
I'm not using fancy cable. I have a spool of 12 gauge copper speaker cable that I will terminate with some crimp on copper lugs. Interconnect will be modest, e.g. Wireworld copper shielded cable.
No provision for digital in this one (yet). I wouldn't mind finding a nice sounding redbook CD player-- i have a few thousand CDs that I accumulated--many given to me by the labels and publishers at the time of release--that I wouldn't mind hearing, since they contain music I don't necessarily have on vinyl.
More to come. Just when you thought you were out....
(I'm really looking forward to hearing the old Quads with the amps, all freshly restored).
are you going to keep the stock feet on your 57s?
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