Kmh3212

I bought the Phase Linear 400 back in 1983. I am the second owner. It will never be sold. It is one of my favorite pieces. I have the filter caps for it but I keep taking on new projects. I picked up the preamp from flea bay several years ago. I have been looking for the one with SH. I see them bid on them and the prices keep going out of site. I WILL own one! I guess I need to get off that back pocket. I have been working on a Dynaco kit stuff. Restoring and upgrading. The tube stuff is nice. I have their first solid state preamp which bone stock is extremely unimpressive. I have yanked all the boards out and putting in some mods from updatemydynaco.com which is supposed to kick it up 10 notches. Brand new Power Supply is finished and in and the preamp boards have been heavily modified. Almost all components changed and modded. It is about 95% done. I love the smell of solder flux in the morning!

VINYL the way music was meant to me listened to. A few pops and a hiss every now and then but it is pure and unadulterated. Maybe compressed a little bit but you can get that decompressed. Really opens up the music. Find the sweet spot turn on the magic button that Bob put in there to make you reach out and touch the guitars and drums. You know what it is. Kmh3212 kevin

Blues power I like late sixties and seventies rock. Beatles, Buffet, Little River Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin not much head banging stuff. Pin drop You have been looking in my closet! and basement...

The Phase Linear System, I hope that counts!

I have a Phase Linear 400 Series II with a 2000 Preamp.

Repaired Sansui SX 636 turntable I have another Kenwood the one with the concrete plinth and another parts unit in the basement on my to do list. I bought a couple of the Audio Technica AT LP120's. I was a little disappointed in the sound. Too much wow and flutter. The first thing I did on them was change the stock cartridge out to a better ones with elliptical styli. The vintage belt drive turntables are hard to beat. Although the Sansui 636 direct drive is very quiet. I have a couple of belt drive JVCs that are nice sounding as well.

Reply to dci, I have bought at least a dozen or so turntables off ebay. At least half have come in poorly packed and broken and ruined. All required a complete going through cleaning off the old solidified grease and re lubed. I love to buy the belt drive turntables most just need a belt and lube of course. That is if the idiot packed it right and didn't just throw it in a box with some wadded up newspaper. I have seen it too many times. The Carver 500t with the C1 preamp and Carver tx-11tuner has a nice Sansui model SR 636 direct drive turntable. Interesting story on that one. It was another ebay find. It was delivered by UPS and I picked up the box and all I heard was rattles in a box with NO packing material. Opened the box and could have cried. It was a box of broken dust cover and turntable parts every where. I took pictures and got my money back. However I went ahead and tried to fix the motor which would run badly. I took the motor out and disassembled it. It used a very thin wheel with 120 or so slits it in that ran through a optical sensor to constant adjust the speed against a quartz reference. The wheel was bent and a couple of the slits broken. I carefully straightened the wheel by had and put it back in the motor and put the motor back together and crossed my fingers. I turned the table on and bam it was showing the right speed on the strobe. Now I went to to realign the cartridge, balance the tone arm and set the anti skating and stylus pressure. I put and album on and it sounded great! I did have to take all the pieces of the dustcover got some plastic cement and after a ton of work glued it back together. No the dust cover is not pretty but the piano black turntable and shiny tone arm make it much better! Picture to follow.

Living room system Carver 1.5T, Luxman Preamp and tuner I built this VTA 120 My lab shop on the kitchen table

I was asked to show a couple of my systems by another member. Here they go! This setup powers a pair of Yamaha outdoor speakers on my deck. MX-40 Yamaha amp and C-80 Preamp plus Kenwood 900 tuner