The (slightly modded) Sansui turntable has since been replaced. In this photo, you can see my Russco Cuemaster and Hagerman Bugle phono pre, stock with 9V batteries:
Moving down, Bottlehead Foreplay with a LM3875 inverted gainclone power amp, also an old Kenwood tuner I picked up at a thrift:
The speakers are 1.6 cu ft top-vented boxes, with 6-1/2" drivers, but Fostex FE207Es (arriving Monday) will be replacing them soon. I think fullrange works well for apartment life, but when I graduate, move out, and get a real job, I'll need to have 15" woofers with horn-loaded mids and highs. :)
Wayne Parham Messages: 18722 Registered: January 2001
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That must be a great little system! I really like the Fostex 206e, and I expect the 207e must be very nice too. I think that even if you get a larger system later, you'll probably want to keep that one too.
Thanks for the nice comments. Yes, I think it sounds quite nice. I built the cabinets with Diatones in the mind -- the current drivers (SOM-FR65) are underdamped and really want bigger cabinets --> lumpy bass. I went looking around for fullrangers that would work better, vintage and new, and saw that the FE207E with 3 ohm in series to bump up Q was ideal alignment. Those SOM drivers, though, excel in mids and highs: piano, vocals, saxophones, trumpets, guitars sound great, I really hope I don't miss that by moving to the Fostex drivers.
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