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These love tubes. A Bottlehead Crack is a high-impedance Senn’s best friend.

Hi all, I've been away from here for some time... fell down the Head-Fi rabbit hole. I've would up with a Burson Timekeeper 3ir - an all-in-one streaming integrated amp - which I got to drive some hard-to-drive headphones (Hifiman Susvara and Hifiman HE6SEv2). I'm going to start playing around...

Vintage AKGs are awesome. I listen to my Sextetts almost as much as my crazy expensive ZMFs. They run about $150 secondhand. I like them so much I’ve started an unhealthy collection of AKGs from that era - the late production K240 Sextetts, a pair of K240DFs and now a pair of K340s. No single...

ZMF Verité Closed - 2nd run of stabilized, named "Neptunia" ZMF Auteurs in Indian Almond

Bottlehead Crack w/Speedball + 20k DACT-style stepped attenuator (I hate the knob. Others are coming.)

Hi all, my Dual 1019 is now my main headphone turntable, and it sounds great (I mean, I can hear the idler wheel rumble between tracks, but that's not an issue). Only problem I'm running into is that whenever the automatic functions cycle, there's a bit of what sounds like a ground hum. I also...

I’ve had a bunch so far and right now my top dog is a pair of ZMF Auteurs. That may change when my Verite Closed arrives. They love tubes and play really well with my heavily modified Darkvoice and my Liquid Platinum.

I’ve read that it’s possible for a cap to go wonky and kill the little computer that controls the arm, which is unobtanium. Keeping an eye on it at all times though.

I think I shall. I love it.

Yeah I love this Sony. It's amazingly easy to use and dead silent noise floor. As long as that Biotracer arm doesn't crap out on me it might be un-upgradeable.

At some point I may try to add a similar-era Luxman CD player (D-105u maybe?) to the stack rather than the Teac, but for now it's slick from top to bottom.

Just finished this weekend getting this all set up - recently acquired the preamp and did some repairs on the amp (speaker relay replacements). Receiver: Luxman R-117 Preamp: Luxman TP-117 Turntable: Sony PS-X600 CD player: Teac CD P650 Speakers: KEF 103.2 Streaming: Apple...

Oh, and here's the final full stack I'm playing with:

Thought I'd toss a few pictures up here as it's kinda hard to find a step-by-step of replacing the notoriously fail-prone speaker relays in the R-117. PLEASE NOTE: I am not an expert in anything. Try this at your own risk. MAKE SURE YOU UNPLUG THE UNIT and leave it unplugged for, like, a...

Fine fine, the other relays arrived and I put them in. Not terribly hard once you figure out the way to get to them.

This is correct

Hi all, I just replaced the Speaker A relays on my R-117. While I was in there, I took out the Speaker B relays, but I only had 2 relays to install - so right now, the whole thing is back together with fresh relays in A, and no relays in B. I do have two more coming in a week or so, but I'm not...

Crud. The R has an input on the back for a remote sensor or remote input. Wonder if that’s how they’re meant to pair up, with something of a wired remote going from pre to receiver that just carries a power on/off signal.

That’s a fantastic idea, for whatever reason I’ve never considered plugging a receiver into the switched power on something else. Guess I was stuck on the “you plug things into the receiver, not the other way around” mentality.

Hi all, I recently got a Luxman TP-117 to pair with my R-117, and it came with the remote - RTP-117, specifically. Is there a way for this remote to also control the R-117, at least to power on and off? thanks!

That’s not what I’m doing. I’m running the pre out of the TP to the pre in of the R. The TP has a signal processor option on the back where you can add an equalizer. If you don’t have an equalizer you need to jump the TP signal processor out to the TP signal processor in. The signal processor...

Yes, but there are signal processor in/out ports on the TP117 that are typically bridged unless you have an equalizer in between. Those bridges are what was missing.

Figured it out, no jumpers in the signal processor in/out connections.

Hi all, I just got one of these to serve as a preamp for my R117. It sounds amazing, but only in CD Straight mode. When that’s off it’s extremely quiet and only outputs to one channel. I’m sure it’s a simple enough settings thing, but I’m not really in a frame of mind to figure it out. Any help...

I have a pair of LP Sextetts that I really, really adore. Problem is I messed them up a little bit... they were my "test" headphones for removable cable mods, and long story short, I carved out a bit too much of the plastic cap on the right side trying to get a Mini XLR jack to fit in there...