Chimera-se
100+ Head-Fier
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I reloaded some of the pics that I had posted earlier. See my post above.. I think it worked, except for a couple. Must have been ugly ones! Haha!
Please feel free to add comments, especially if it's your gear in the pic.
-Dogwan
OK,
#2 is, L to R, Bottlehead S.E.X. amp with MagneQuest iron upgrade, Bottlehead Crack with Speedball, with a custom FPE top plate, and a Bottlehead Quickie battery powered tube preamp converted to headphone use. That would be PB's Beyer 880s and HD800s and my HD202 bench dogs and HD600s with Bottlehead/Cardas cable by DIYCable.
#3 the thing in the foreground is a prototype Bottlehead active loaded hybrid shunt regulated line stage built on a Crack chassis. Behind that is a pair of Bottlehead Paramount 300B amps that were driving my AKG K1000s. The little black box is my distribution box that lets us run four amps at once from the tape source. The great big knob on it is the level control for the K1000 amps.
#4 that would be my modified Nagra T Audio tape deck, apparently laying on its side...
#5shows the custom Bottlehead Tube Repro tape head preamp in the Nagra T doghouse. This one has an additional EQ setting for Nagra's own Nagramaster playback EQ.
#6 shows our new Bottlehead Tube Phono, a pretty much all-out assault on LP playback with adjustable bass shelf, bass turnover and treble rollover for pre-RIAA eq LPs.. It will be showing along with my Nagra T at RMAF in the Audio Salon/Marutani Consulting/Magico room.
The stacker and liquid gold amps both sounded great with the orthos. I heard that the liquid fire pairs even better. Hopefully I will get a chance to listen to it someday.