its very different to using valves as a pre, very clean sound and very detailed. also its silent, even with the phono stage and step up selected and the volume wanged all the way up with no music playing, its deathly silent.

lol, if i do decide to toss it all out, i'll let you know

cheers
very happy with it, plays all music brilliantly to my ears. the 834p on its own is an excellent phono stage, but adding the mc3 has brought it up another notch, and the 40 ohm loading is ideal for the 304.

That's what my wife said when I put up one wall of shelving and another of pallet rack in the garage for her to store stuff.

Don't bet on it!

(Nice setup, by the way!!!)

Ok, the word C rap was a little harsh, well real harsh, but will still pay shipping

elroy

'twasnt harsh at all, i knew your only messin'!!

latest update, the tvc has gone, as did the rank mono's to be replaced with a tube technology prophet pre with power supply, and a pair of tube technology genesis 100w el34 mono's. differences are a lot more slam and more power than i'll ever need from the genesis. i looked long and hard for 2 years for these baby's to come up, and boy, do they not disappoint!
also added a stax earspeaker system for the late night listening sesh:-

tube tech prophet pre:-

wow, it looks fricken awesome, I bet it sounds as good as it looks. thanks for the picts.

elroy

been adding to and it now has its own room, added an audio note io cart, another lp12 with ittok and lyra dorian, an audio origami pu7, a hadcock gh228 with a grado platinum reference, a pioneer pds703 to use as a transport along with another audio synthesis dac/power supply.

thats a bit of an understatement.

fantastic additions, and a dedicated room must make a huge difference. congrats!

I'm speechless mate......... Fantastic pieces of audio engineering and great pics also.
Many tanx for sharing.

I'm with clint on this

cheers guys

it sounds superb. i had a few bass issues at first when it first went in to its own room, but after playing around with speaker placement and finishing furnishing the room, its spot on extreamly open and detailed sound, huge soundstage and mindblowing imaging i cant ask for a better sound really, chuffed to bits with it

Two full systems set up side by side its not very commun to see these days....
Any preferences in choosing one or the other for any particular musical style?
BTW, that Lyra Dorian is just gorgeous.