Originally Posted by
Mr Mac
Justapax
Hi Fi was one of my vices and I was for ever chasing that Triangle at the back of the performance so to speak.
Currently have B&W 702 S3 / Meridian 818 and 500 transport and DAC and Michell GyroDec with SME arm and Ortofon Cartridge.
However having said all that I have BOSE system both in Munich and Yorkshire with B&W Zepplin in my wife’s study in Yorkshire, and it is the Bose that by far and away gets the most use.
Cheers
Mr Mac
The analogue part of my system is pretty ancient - Thorens TD 166 Mk II with an Audio Technica AT31E moving-coil cartridge feeding a NAD MC phono stage. I buy the record deck a new rubber band about every ten years, and I think the cartridge is coming to the end of its life, but new MC cartridges are as rare as hen's teeth, and priced accordingly. The CD player is just a CD player/recorder, as it gives a digital output to the Cambridge Audio amplifier/receiver the DAC is handled by the amp, the CD player is just a transport. I also have a cassette recorder for when I want to listen to some tape hiss. I rarely listen to anything newer than the end of the 80s. DVDs are handled by an ancient Windows 98SE computer. I have 3 TB of DVDs on a hard disk. So when I'm on a plane, it's difficult to find anything on the IFE that I haven't watched already.
Some of the kit is 40 years old, plus, but I don't think record players have advanced in technology over that period, so the Thorens is good enough for me.