Post Your Audio Front-End Gear

[blair]

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Most recent:

Denon 2900 CDP
Emotiva UPA-2
DIY remote controlled OPA2134 preamp
Acer AspireRevo 1600 with upgraded RAM (It realy is only in my system)

Five months ago:

Denon 2900
155w KT88 Monoblocks
Battery operated 6DJ8 preamp

Blair

[blair]

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Here is a hazy image from my phone.

Blair

[mgrabow]

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Audio Research L3 Pre-Amp
Threshold S200 amp
Parasound Transport/Player
Creek Phonostage
Onkyo Integra Turntable
Antique Sound Tube Amp (Kit)

[andykriech]

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Main HT:
Yamaha RX-V2400 receiver
Yamaha CDC-685 5-disc CD player (2nd source to run zone 2 out on the deck)
Oppo DV-983H DVD
Cable HD DVR

Game room HT:
Onkyo TX-SR606 receiver
Oppo DV-980H DVD
Wii
Cable HD

Master bedroom system:
Sony STR-DA1000ES receiver
Sony DVP-NS3100ES DVD/SACD
Yamaha CDC-697 5-Disc CD player
Cable HD

Study stereo system:
Marantz 2250B receiver
Sony CDP-209ES CD player

Garage stereo system:
Onkyo TX-800 receiver
Sony DVP-NS57P DVD player (so I can play CDs and MP3 discs)

[maynardg]

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Squeezebox 3
MHDT Labs Constantine DAC with PIO caps
Aikido preamp 6N1P-7044 tubes
1976 vintage Accuphase P300 beefy boy amp

[kurt6325]

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Onkyo TX-SR875
Oppo DV-980H
Samsung HLT6187S
Dish Network

[DoubleTap]

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My audio room is dedicated for 2-channel playback ... and thus is very simple. My amps have plenty of gain so that a pre-amp isn't needed.

Amp - D-Sonic Magnum 1000, 1000ASP based IcePower amp with heavy mods
Source - XP laptop using ASIO and Foobar2000
Alt Source - Linn Sondek LP12 Valhalla made in mid-80's
Digitial Conversion - Emperical Audio Off-Ramp 3 USB convertor into a modded Xindak DAC-5
Power Center - BPT CPC with lots of upgrades

That's it. Laptop into USB convertor into DAC and straight into the amps. Volume control is done through Foobar.

Here's a pic that shows the gear as used in our RMAF 2008 room. In this case we used a Tact 2.2 Mini as a DAC and pre so that we could switch to spinning discs for people that bring their own demo disc.

[chad1376]

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Main system:

Scratch-Built single ended 300B w/ passive pre-amp. No surround sound for me - no sir!





Scratch-Built single ended 2A3 amp has been religated to PC speaker service:



Kenwood 100 WPC reciever in the garage for when I need LOUD (the S/W plate amp is long since dead):

[fbov]

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Only one room of HT stuff...

Pioneer surround receiver (c. 1999, on it's last days, because a ...)
Onkyo TX-SR707 (... arrived yesterday, but still in box)
Oppo DV-980H DVD/SACD
SA 8300HDC cable/DVR
PS/3 (my son's...)
Wii (his parents')
Sony DVD (don't recall model)
Sony 34XBR970 HD CRT TV
... and a bunch of HDMI cables.

I will note that the 707 will greatly curtail my speaker building for a while as I can't afford to buy drivers, even as I now need to build more speakers and sub for the jump to 7.2....

Have fun,
Frank

[sgbassett]

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Toshiba NB205 Netbook with Rhapsody
SMC SMCWAA-G EZ-Stream
Sirius Streamer GT Radio
Insignia HD Radio
Marantz CD-63SE CD Player
Pioneer PL-L1000 tangentially tracking turntable
BSR McDonald 310 record changer

(As you can see, I like to choose from many sources)

All fed into a MCM 50-772 Preamp (w phono input) which in turn feeds in to a Dayton DTA-100 T-Amp (driving Klipsch KG 4.2 speakers in a very large room).

[johnastockman]

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Man, drooling over the Cambridge 840 is perfectly acceptable...as long as none gets into it! I have 3 current systems, but the living room set-up will be changed as soon as I have the appropriate funds saved (pretty soon). Living room:
Yamaha HTR-5240 receiver (only used for 2-channel)
Technics SL-PG100 MASH CD player
Yamaha KX-390 HX Pro cassette deck
Yamaha YP-211 turtable w/Grado cartridge
Audio Control D-11 EQ/analyzer

Family room:
Yamaha CR-420 receiver
Yamaha TC-511S cassette deck
Teac A-4010S reel-to-reel
PS2 for CD's

Garage/shop:
Sherwood receiver (so old the model # is worn off, kind of a cheapie found at a second-hand store).
'Coustic car stereo with 5 amp power supply for all the cassettes I still own.

I'll be upgrading to some Cambridge components for the living room:
340 integrated amp
340 tuner
340 CD player
540 phono pre-amp

The Yammie HTR will go to my sister, the Technics CD will go to the family room CR-420 system, and the Yamaha TC-511S cassette will go to the e-recycler (the motor bearing is shot and can't be replaced). Definitely 2-channel, though. I don't watch hardly any movies, so having the HTR isn't needed. Music is what mostly comes through my speakers, with the occasional astronomy documentary and select anime', so I'm like chad1376: no surround, no sir! The CR-420 was bought in '77, along with the YP-211turntable/Grado cartridge, used with the Speakerlab S2's I built that same year. I got the Technics MASH & Audio Control D-11 in '92. I had that set-up until the late 90's when I got the HTR and the KX cassette deck.

John A.

[jonpike]

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Interesting thread... lotta cool stuff out there!

As I type (hey, it's my lunch hour!)

Work System: (good thing I'm in a separate lab from others!)

PC, Creative USB X-Fi sound card
Modified Reckhorn F1 crossover (for mains HP, sub LP)
Pair of Envisionelec's (Aaron's) EZ-Amps LM3886 monoblocks :D
Zaph's Budget Monitors
Roman's Cerebus sub (W6-1136/PE 70W)

Home Music System:

Sony XDR F1 HD tuner, or
Crappy DVD/CD player but used as a digital out, or
PC running above X-Fi card, used as digital out
Twisted Pear Buffalo I DAC :D
Beringer A500 125W/chan amp
Modula MT's

Not at the moment, but usually also:
Beringer "BFD" (DSP EQ for sub)
RSS315 sealed sub/PE 240W

[mike15]

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Integra DTC 9.8 pro.

Outlaw 7500 amp.

Sony BDP-S550

Sony ES cd player

Forte d/a converter

I was in love with my outlaw 7500 untill I dug my old HK pa 2400 out of a box a few days ago. the HK has a mutch softer sound (almost tube like) than the ouwtlaw. I couldn't enjoy it for very long though as it blew up after about 20 minites of moderate volume, pushing my sunflowers!

[DS-21]

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Main system:

• Oppo BDP-83 for SACD/DVD-A/Blu-Ray/DVD
• Apple AirPort Express for non-surround audio, streaming from nearfield system computer
• Bang and Olufsen RX-2 for vinyl
• Denon AVR-4308ci/A ("A" for feature-upgrade to Audyssey DynamicEQ)
• Velodyne SMS-1
• Plate amps in subs
• Harmony One universal remote

Nearfield system:

• Samsung DVD-HD841 for SACD/DVD-A
• rev. A 17" Apple iMac w/ Intel Core Duo for everything else
• Denon AVR-3808ci/A ("A" for feature-upgrade to Audyssey DynamicEQ)
• Dayton HP-SA1000 sub amp

Bedroom "system": Tannoy i30 iPod dock

[robertclark]

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Main HT System:

• Anthem AVM 30 Pro
• Rotel RMB-1095 Amp
• Oppo DV-983H DVD Player
• Panasonic DMP-BD80 BR Player
• Onkyo Z431 CD Player
• Behringer EP 2500 Sub Amp
• Elemental Designs EQ2 w/Sampson S-Convert