Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Anyone interested in my Fonken floor standers with Alpair CHP-70 full ranger drivers?

Solid English sycamore baffle, birch ply cabinet, gold plated binding posts. Drivers have been broken in. The cavity at the bottom is full of kiln dried sand. Closeup pic is with Fostex drivers, not the Alpair.

£160 to a good home.

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They look great. Sadly no room for more speakers myself otherwise I would be all over them.

I’m thinking of building a Tubelab SSE single-ended class A valve amp. I’ve already got some EL34 valves in the loft and sort-of accidentally not accidentally won a suitably-sized vintage mains transformer on eBay. SSE board is already on its way from the US. Just deciding whether to commit to the whole hog, which will mean blowing some ££££ on output transformers. Anyone done anything similar?

Mains transformer. Packet of butter and loaf of bread for scale.

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Not diy valve amps. Built some synths and phono amps. Not done any high voltage projects. I

have a single ended guitar cab built by Dennis at Cornell. Went to his workshop to buy it and there were quite a few people hand wiring amps on the premises. He has incredible knowledge of valve amps, I asked him for a modification to reduce the output a little more on one setting and he took 5 minutes to change the circuit.

Are you planning a mono setup for a 50's jazz system?

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Are you planning a mono setup for a 50's jazz system?

Lol, no, will be a stereo pair.

Any recommendations for hifi separate wall mounted solutions? I have CA amp & CD player that I want to get onto the wall somehow

Edit --> Moved to the wider thread

On the wallmount topic, just read a Hi-Fi Choice review praising this active set: https://system-audio.com/product/sa-legend-7-silverback/

Did I answer there? Vitsoe. You can have a single shelf mounted on pretty much any wall or more shelves if you like.

Not sure why I assumed it would be 1 transformer per channel. I guess the voltage sag is less important in a stereo pair as likely both channels are demanding roughly equal voltage for the bass at volume peaks.

Yes you did :-)

Just wanted to get a post in the wider hifi thread. Thanks

But you already have the best answer 🙂

All of the JBL L** series are on sale here in the U.S. right now. The temptation, based on aesthetics alone, is incredibly high! I love my Totems but they stick out like a sore thumb in my apartment....

Good info! Cheers!

Currently they are sat under a large work bench, tweets pointing up toward a piece of bracing, the best sounding place to hear these is sat in my scrap metal pile, its a workshop setup.

Beefy piano type hinge + chain at the top is a neat idea, simple. I Have no budget, a welder and some scrap angle iron, drill and some hilti bolts

Do it!

Can you do mine next please?

Na. It's a nice idea but my Totem's are one of the most expensive things I've ever purchased - if I sold them to fund something else I'd lose so much cash that it just wouldn't be worth it. And I really do love pretty much everything about the way they sound.

They look even better in the flesh than I thought they would. Cannot wait to pair them with CXA81 when it turns up.

I just wish i had space for 82's/100's.

Fair enough :)

That setup should work well for a workshop.

Would anyone recommend saving a NAD 533 turntable from the bin? They're a budget Rega planar I gather... The flywheel thing that drives the band is slipping on the spindle it lives on, seems to be a simple interference fit that has finally worn the plastic flywheel so it's not gripping.

I suppose a dab of superglue would fix this ... is there any reason why this wouldn't be fine?

well it has a rega arm so not worth binning. you could possibly get a 24v motor upgrade kit that would solve the spindle thing at the same time?

you could possibly get a 24v motor upgrade kit

This is not something I could do. However glueing a slipping plastic/metal interference fit is about my level.

Wrapping ptfe tape on the spindle or similar tape might have the desired effect. Superglue seems like a decent plan but there's the potential that you can't reposition it if needed.