American electronics with Prestige Tannoy speakers

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Imagen 002

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Finnally my system really works.I tried several electronics with the Tannoys, like Class , Copland, Cary. But the Tannoys really work with SE Class A Amplifiers and tube Preamp.

First I bought one Aleph 30, and it sound incredible, better than many others tube amplifiers. Because it is not expensive I bought another to biamp. And yes, the biamp. works with these speakers. (remember that they have 1.1K crossover frequencie) Better channel separation, less distorsion and a little more power. Sound: big but smooth. very detail and musical. Deep bass but not exaggerated. You will hear the records as they are.

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- Krell KPS-20i
Krell KPS-20i with Delta 9 upgrade. I tested many new CD, DVD and SACD Players, but for CD I still prefer the Krell.
- Sonic Frontiers Line 2SE+
Sonic Frontiers Line 2SE with Chris Jhonson plus upgrade.
Tubes: Amperex 6922PQ White label USA with Herbie´s Halo Dampers
- Pass Aleph 30
Two Pass Aleph 30 SE amplifiers in Passive Vertical Biamplification. One stereo amplifier for each speaker.
- Tannoy Edinburgh HE with ST200
Tannoy Prestige series Edinburgh HE with ST200 Supertweeter.
I modificated the crossovers with Mundorf caps, Mills resistors, Van den Hul SCS cables and WBT connectors.
- Tice Audio Powerblock III Signature HP
220V version with high power option.
- Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II Balanced
Balanced interconnect cable between Krell KPS-20i and preamplifier
- Harmonic Technology Pro Silway MKIII
Two Balanced interconnect cables from Sonic Frontiers and the two Aleph
- LFD Grainfree Signature Biamp
Mr. Richard Bews made this special version with 4 connectors in each cable terminal for biamp.
The cable use pure solid silver conductor for the HF and grainfree cooper for LF.
It is not very expensive but for the Tannoy it works better than expensive Audioquest Volcano and Mont Blanc.
The photo is for the biwire (not biamp.) version.
- JPS Digital AC
Power cable for Krell CD Player
- Synergistic Research AC Master Coupler
For Power amplifiers and pre.
- Silver Audio Jumpers
Pure silver 2 feets jumpers to connect the supertweeters.
- Sennheiser HD600
Sennheiser HD600 headphones with Clou Red Cable. I connect to the Line 2 Headphone amplifier
- Clou Cable Red Jaspis Headphone cable
This cable really upgrade the HD600 perfomance. Highly recomended.
- Pioneer DVL-909
DVD-Laserdisc Player. I use it to hear some old material in Laserdisc.
I also connect it to the KPS-20i Dac.

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Yes, very nice system indeed. I have found my vintage HPD 315's (12" Dual Concentric) really like tubes, using an upgraded 10 WPC Sophia Baby amp. I may get around to biamping some day, but I'll have to change my crossovers to accomodate the change, so I'll hold off on that. Old or new, Tannoy's are hard to beat for their musicality.

Congrats,
Dan

islandmandan February 16, 2010 15:34

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