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Saffier's hi-end audio system

My audio system is completely home made and/or tweaked. *** Speakers: Poly Natalia (design Dick Olsher, with the most exotic PIO capacitors, Allen Bradley resistors NEW to be exchanges by Duelund Coherent Audio carbon resistors and custom wound aircoils. *** Turn Table: Teres Audio incl. battery power supply, SME 3009R tonearm, upgraded with bronze metal bearing and finewire C37 rewiring, ZYX R1000 Airy X Cosmos SB (replacing: Yatra H MC) (Sumiko Blue Point HOMC). new: base made out of 30 pcs medical steel grade cones, custom made. note also the base of the motor. NEW: 100KG African Granite base. *** Multi standard digital player: Philips 963SA, tweaked with Black Gate caps, netfilter and Bybee filtering, output capacitors are Black Gates N's in Super E-Cap configuration, exchanged opamp AD8032 for AD8066 (more dynamic and more inner detail). Separate battery power supply for the analog stages and the digital stages. NEW: upgraded with Burson AUdio super regulators to get rid of the last bit of noise generated by the stock 7808 and 7908 regulators. NEW: Stillpoints ERS nano carbon fibre paper for eliminating EMI/RFI. Inside player, screening SMPS and digital and analogue circuits. (pictures will follow). **** Amps: Ladyday+ 300B with CCS for the driverstage, D3a, with Yamamoto tube sockets, teflon/silver, S&B GRIDCHOKES, and Bybee slipstream purifiers at the input signal (very revealing!!). NEW: Machmat VCCS for 300B heater supply and for D3a heater supply. New recifiers, new design for eliminating HF distortion. New extra transformer dedicated for heater supplies. NEW: Allnic audio tube sockets with gel damping on D3a tubes (9 pins). NEW: V-Cap TFTF coupling caps, best tweak ever!! It's like listening to new amps. Much more depth and tone color. I could not have imagined such a big improvement. Pictures will follow soon. *** Phono Preamp: Cole MM/MC all tube preamp, upgraded with Allen Bradly carbon composite resistors, silver wiring, PIO vitamin Q caps, silver mica capacitors and with separate PSU. New rectifier and VCCS for tube heaters supply. Allnic audio tube sockets with gel damping for the E288CC and ECC83 tubes. Tribute Cobalt Amorph step-up transformers (10X / 20X). *** TVC: Transformer Volume Controle, Django, S&B pure silver wiring througout. All interconnect, internal wiring and speaker wiring and cables are Audio Consulting pure silver with cotton. RCA's: Eichmann Bullit Plugs. *** All power cables are made by AH! Netfilter: AH! offset killer. NEW: 50kg African Granite base for the netfilter. (pictures will follow soon). Audio Rack: New Audio rack is home made in RAL 9006 after design of Russ Andrews. New pictures comming soon!

Music: CD: 1000 Classical CD: 750 Pop/rock CD: 150 Jazz LP: 150 Classical LP: 100 Jazz LP: 50 Pop/rock SACD: 25 Classical/Jazz/Pop/Rock