Hi all,
After lurking on the high-eff forum here for a while (some great builds and a really helpful and constructive atmosphere – respect!), I thought I’d finally say hello and introduce myself.
I’m an Aussie based in Dublin and, cough, a bit of a vinyl junkie with a side habit of collecting miscellaneous audio paraphernalia with the intention of giving DIY a bit of a go.
I mostly listen to 50’s/60’s jazz (think pepper, desmond, sims, baker, evans, miles davis quintet etc), easy listening and classical, which I’ve subjected my wife and little girls to over the years.
Current system is used for both hifi and AV and a mix of both, and modern and vintage bits: 301/fr64s/decca iv carts, emt 930st/929/ofd25&65, puresound phono, arcam sr250 receiver and pmc mb2 monitors. It's a bit of a mashup that’s evolved over the years, but works well to my ears for both. It’s also nice to be able to readily switch between some vinyl to netflix to xbox without having to unplug anything and xbox1/movies on the PMCs is quite an experience!
Of course, nothing stays forever – will be moving house in the near future and have been kindly asked to sell off the PMCs (but not the records thankfully!) to make way for a more domesticated/visually-appealing system.. I think I even heard the word “bookshelf” mentioned…
I could complain but am instead looking at this as an opportunity to finally get cracking on DIYing some speakers (for starters) and using some of the bits I’ve accumulated over the years, some of which will be familiar to the high-eff crowd. E.g. various renkus heinz, emilar and jensen comp drivers and horns, and altec and jensen woofers etc.
God only knows how this stuff will be finally lashed up (and whether it actually will survive my DIY attempts) but at least it should look pretty… I’ll be sure to start a thread detailing the rookie mistakes err..build and most likely bugging ye all for thoughts and advice along the way!
Cheers
Adrian
After lurking on the high-eff forum here for a while (some great builds and a really helpful and constructive atmosphere – respect!), I thought I’d finally say hello and introduce myself.
I’m an Aussie based in Dublin and, cough, a bit of a vinyl junkie with a side habit of collecting miscellaneous audio paraphernalia with the intention of giving DIY a bit of a go.
I mostly listen to 50’s/60’s jazz (think pepper, desmond, sims, baker, evans, miles davis quintet etc), easy listening and classical, which I’ve subjected my wife and little girls to over the years.
Current system is used for both hifi and AV and a mix of both, and modern and vintage bits: 301/fr64s/decca iv carts, emt 930st/929/ofd25&65, puresound phono, arcam sr250 receiver and pmc mb2 monitors. It's a bit of a mashup that’s evolved over the years, but works well to my ears for both. It’s also nice to be able to readily switch between some vinyl to netflix to xbox without having to unplug anything and xbox1/movies on the PMCs is quite an experience!
Of course, nothing stays forever – will be moving house in the near future and have been kindly asked to sell off the PMCs (but not the records thankfully!) to make way for a more domesticated/visually-appealing system.. I think I even heard the word “bookshelf” mentioned…
I could complain but am instead looking at this as an opportunity to finally get cracking on DIYing some speakers (for starters) and using some of the bits I’ve accumulated over the years, some of which will be familiar to the high-eff crowd. E.g. various renkus heinz, emilar and jensen comp drivers and horns, and altec and jensen woofers etc.
God only knows how this stuff will be finally lashed up (and whether it actually will survive my DIY attempts) but at least it should look pretty… I’ll be sure to start a thread detailing the rookie mistakes err..build and most likely bugging ye all for thoughts and advice along the way!
Cheers
Adrian