[singular]

You're all to blame! One month of head-fi membership and it's come to this...

My office analogue set-up

Marantz 2215B receiver
Pro-ject 1.2 turntable
Mapletree Audio Ear+ Purist HD2 headphone amp from Audiogon - seller may well be on head-fi as well
Grado RS-2 headphones - thanks to Aura in the classifieds

Ok, I do also hook in the computer with iBasso D3 as DAC so it's not fully analogue. I wouldn't get anything done if I spent the whole day spinning records...

Had the amp running for about an hour and it's just getting nicely warmed up!

Around £600 spent (not including the Zappa) and to me it sounds as good or better than many speaker set-ups I've heard for 000's.

Thanks for all the tips and pointers I've picked up either directly or indirectly along the way.

Sam

 

[insyte]

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[insyte]

WOW nice setup

How do you avoid the ticks and pops with your analogue setup?

 

[CDBacklash]

The different woods look great together

 

[Bojamijams]

Congrats! Just don't get fired now from all the work you won't be doing

 

[singular]

Avoid ticks and pops by keeping records as clean as possible! I'm also steeling myself to try the ''wood glue peel' cleaning method with a few discs I have that are a bit more gunked up.

Will have to get pretty bad to fire myself

 

[Currawong]

Damn I wish I had space for vinyl. I am running out of space as it is.

 

[AmanGeorge]

Man, that's a nice aggressive month of membership. Congrats on what looks to be a beautiful system.

 

[Ashirgo]

600 pounds? It would be enough to provide thirty poor children with a dinner for each for 30 days! Shame on you!

 

[paaj]

that's a good way to start head-fiing

 

[moogoob]

Very nice.

If I didn't have a nice vintage TT, I'd pick up a Pro-ject one. They look very simple and minimalist. I am, however, using a Pro-ject phono box, which is a nice little component that fits in well with the rest of my system and isn't too high-end for my source.

I avoid clicks and pops by... using HD650s rather than my Grados. Seriously, the slightly ramped-down highs make the Senns a tad better (more forgiving

) for most vinyl recordings on my system.

 

[krmathis]

Congratulations!
Only been here a month and already understood what its all about.

 

[BigTony]

Did I read Zappa in there? You can never have too much Frank!

 

[Downer]

Good thing, you didn't find out about head-fi before... or is it a bad thing

 

[D_4_Dog]

consider yourself lucky that you weren't here when the orpheus or sony mdr-r10 were still available from vendors!