my system

My system.

A Contan Pre-amp locally made in Melbourne using a double valve with power regulated at every stage. No negative feedback. Amazing sonics. Brass instruments never sounded so good. Hocol and caddock resistors through-out kimber caps humungus power supply transformer. The pre-amp has undergone more modifications at the hands of Bruno Kasum and now smarts a TDK attenuator and beefed up power supply capacitance and regulation. And now fitted with TC-9 and TC-14 TomCats^TM An Audionix Power amp the BA-150 with M13MkV Monopoles® with FM3 spades on the left channel and M14's with FM2 spades on the right. ( I’m the mechanic I’m allowed to do this! ).using TomCats^TM at the input stage.

A Micro-Seiki table with outputs to the phono-stage fit into TomCats^TM with an AudioQuest arm and Denon DL 160 cartridge all siting on a 2 inch thick vesicular basalt slab supported with Mecado's. The CD player with TC-3 TomCats^TM for outputs also sitting atop 2 isolated vesicular basalt slabs with a thinner vesicular basalt slab on top. All decoupled with Mecado's.

My speakers are the Panda Model 10 a design that I have been working on since 1988. The design is a D'Appolito alignment 2-way design. The woofers now wired with 25mm x 0.3mm Silver plated Pure Copper to Monopoles®. ( The production version has M13MkV Monopoles® ).

The tweeter is wired with OCOS to Monopoles®.

Crossover is 6db with with a zoebel on the bass and 18db with equalisation on the top; a single crossover frequency at 2600 Hz.

Each box weighs over 240Kg ( 1600h x 400w x 703d ) and sit on Mecado's.

In using firmly clamped unsoldered bare wire all the way from the signal source then from the amplifier to the loudspeaker transducer, with minimal componentry in the signal path, the quality of reproduction is as close to live as modern technology allows .

Welcome to the ‘private space’ of the original performance.

Ideal System: ( subject to revision and much argument ).

Pre-Amp:

Bruno Kasum pre-amp fitted with TomCats^TM

Power Amp:

2 x Cawsey Modular amplification system Power Amps fitted with Monopoles® and TomCats^TM

The Cawsey amps come standard with M16 Monopoles®

Loudspeaker:

Panda Model 10 .

CD Transport:

CEC TL-1 or the TL-O and CD5100Z or any belt drive CD player fitted with TomCats^TM

The distinct advantage of a belt drive CD platter is the minimisation of the drive motors vibrations into the signal being read by the laser.

The wavelength of the laser is minute and the vertical oscillations of the motor influences on the stability of the drive mechanism are enormous compared to the laser oscillations.

Audition a belt drive CD transport // player ( Forsell also make one ) and you will soon notice an enormous difference in performance quality.

DAC:

Audio Synthesis DAX-3 with provision for HDCD® TomCats^TM.

TurnTable:

ELP

Uses lasers instead of a needle to read the music off the record.

Mikro-Seiki Air-Bearing and Vacuum Suction turntable / or Forsell, Walker proscenium or other high quality Turntable, output fitted with TomCats^TM

Any Turntable that has RCA output sockets that has its brass output sockets to TomCats^TM pure Copper Sockets will deliver a superior performance to the Brass sockets it presently has.

ToneArm:

Wheaton Tri-Planar; forever debatable!

Cartridge:

DL-S1 MC phono cartridge and matching AU-S1 step-up transformer.

Denon DL-160!

DynaVector Karat MC

Cables & Interconnects:

All Brenda^TM// Morning Glory

Speaker Cable:

Silver B.A.S.S. Straight^TM Speaker Cable

Power Conditioner:

Epsilon 3.5KVA or 5KVA.

( Coming soon is B.A.I.T. a 5KVA isolation transformer for audio )

B.A.I.T. : Bocchino Audio Isolation Transformer ).

Mechanical Isolation Platform:

Fitted with Bocchino Audio isolation platform.

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Note 1.: HDCD® is a registered trademark belonging to Pacific Micro-Systems USA.

Note2: Monopoles® is a registered trademark belonging to Carmine Bocchino, Australia.