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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #50 - 01/08/21 at 12:23:48 Custom Bottlehead Kaiju 300B amp with DC filament upgrade and Shuguang Audio Treasure Series 300B's.
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Lon Seasoned Member Offline "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 28775 Munson Township, OH	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #51 - 01/08/21 at 14:24:30 Looks as if it sounds very interesting.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #52 - 01/22/21 at 02:35:51 James Burgess 2a3
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #53 - 02/02/21 at 17:20:59 Cleaning up the main room (moved three sets of huge speakers and tons of gear into the office room 2nd system area) in anticipation of my one of a kind Jon Anderson Shindo 604 builds which are almost done. It is very exciting times around here for sure. Tease photo: [image no longer available]
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #54 - 02/03/21 at 18:43:22 diytube stereo35
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #55 - 02/08/21 at 23:55:33 Greg Metz STS modified Thorens TD124 MKII in custom plinth, with an Alfred Bokrand Custom Ortofon Tonearm mounted on a black sourced armboard, with a beloved brand new NOS Ortofon SPU Royal A cartridge, topped off with Nordost Quattro-fil phono cable.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #56 - 02/09/21 at 13:51:42
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #57 - 02/10/21 at 21:36:11 Jon Anderson Custom 604's
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Lon Seasoned Member Offline "Love without guts is worthless!" Philip K. Dick Posts: 28775 Munson Township, OH	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #58 - 02/10/21 at 21:41:38 Mr. Hidalgo, you are an audio prince!
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HockessinKid Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 1365 Delaware	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #59 - 02/10/21 at 23:32:47 Beautiful Charles. Bet they sound magnificent. HK
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Tommy Freefall Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 433 Somewhere in Texas	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #60 - 02/11/21 at 23:36:16 Charles, you have an amazing collection!
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Geno Seasoned Member Offline Without music, life would be a mistake. Posts: 2328 Pearl, MS	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #61 - 02/12/21 at 00:27:22 Charlie, you constantly amaze me. Would love a tour if you weren’t on the other side of the country.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #62 - 02/12/21 at 19:09:29 Kind words everyone thanks. Things have been running now 48 hours non stop and they are sounding better and better and I think by next week they will really be impressive though they sound amazing now. I moved them back closer to the front wall corners also. Damn impressive bass.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #63 - 02/16/21 at 02:05:48 Lenco PTP build... 65 pounds of analog goodness. She’s in the room now and will be fitted with a Fidelity Research arm this week. Three extra arm boards also for easy change out of tonearms.
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Geno Seasoned Member Offline Without music, life would be a mistake. Posts: 2328 Pearl, MS	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #64 - 02/16/21 at 02:11:21 Wow! That is an absolute work of art!!!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #65 - 02/20/21 at 20:02:06 Fidelity Research FR-24 MKII tonearm is setup with an Audio Technica cartridge for starters. I'll be trying several different cartridges in the coming time.
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piezoman Ex Member	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #66 - 02/21/21 at 01:43:34 a lab technician's paradise. incredible!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #67 - 04/11/21 at 05:17:39 Tascam BR20T wireless control hack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_g8Vi59MOcc
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piezoman Ex Member	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #68 - 04/11/21 at 13:48:48 my draw drops to the ground with drool. you are an obviously very dedicated audiophile. amazing. my hat is off to you.
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Reply #69 - 05/14/21 at 21:38:04

STS serviced with upgrades including a rewired and serviced Ortofon RMG-212 tonearm. A new idler wheel from AudioSilente, A WoodSong Audio thrust bearing kit with an 8mm thick bronze cap, a 6mm thick Torlon thrust pad, and a Grade 5 sapphire ball bearing. An MK2 conversion kit with the Hanze Hi-Fi Motor Spring Suspension kit is also installed. In this conversion, the 3 motor suspension mount studs of the MK1 motor, are replaced with longer motor suspension studs to give more motor suspension travel as well as allowing installation of the Hanze HiFi motor spring suspension system which reduces motor noise into the chassis by -16db over the standard double polymer bushing design which is still installed on most TD124’s. SPH copper mat copper record stabilizer, and Waynes outer ring round things out.

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #70 - 06/09/21 at 22:39:00 I have wanted to do one of these correctly for a long time. Krebs Upgraded Technics SP10 MKII, DAS dual arm plinth, Fidelity Research FR24 MKII 9", Jelco TK-950L MKII 12", Sph copper mat and record stabilizer. Ortofon and Audio Technica carts.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #71 - 06/09/21 at 22:40:14 ....
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Archie Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 2735	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #72 - 06/10/21 at 16:10:18 I've often wondered, why two arms? Is it only so you can have two carts mounted? I've been under the impression that a 12" arm is superior to a 9". If so, why one of each?
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Reply #73 - 06/11/21 at 17:03:20

Personal preferences over 25 years of searching for arm/cart matches that suite my taste for different types of music. 12" is amazing but it can be easier for a 12" to sound amazingly bad if all things are not right. Some surprisingly very inexpensive carts sound amazing with my FR24 MKII arm on less than great rock recording from the 70's and 80's. There are just soooo many factors involved from the source media to what makes it to my ears and these arms, carts, and tables represent years of experimentation. It's still fun, and interesting after all these years.

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #74 - 06/16/21 at 21:36:24
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Donnie Seasoned Member Offline Why does it hurt when I pee? Posts: 2589 Central Illinois.	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #75 - 06/16/21 at 22:13:23 All of that and yet not a 8-track player in sight. Sigh....
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Reply #76 - 06/18/21 at 03:55:38

Thank you John at Lynwardwoodworks.com/ for helping make my project a very beautiful and special one!

Audio-Technica LP1240 with bypassed internal phono section and Cardas cable wiring from the tonearm leads directly to the RCA's. An Audio-Technica cartridge on modified stock arm. Black Diamond feet between the TT and neoprene layered MDF internal base with kiln dried domestic hardwood that are at a max of 8% moisture content for the rest of the plinth. This was made from 3/4" curly maple inlayed with curly Claro walnut. Joints are mitered and biscuit joined to add strength. The very bottom and inner base of the the turntable sits on is 3/4" MDF and the base has threaded 1/4 20 inserts for my choice of footers which are currently Mapleshade. Copper platter mat and record stabilizer from Sien at SPH.

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #77 - 07/14/21 at 16:49:57
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #78 - 08/24/21 at 12:23:34 Welcome home..... Jon Anderson vertical 9844's
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #79 - 09/04/21 at 20:33:28 Cain & Cain Supper Abby
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Reply #80 - 11/09/21 at 17:18:28

Charles,
When can we get some comparative reviews on all these amazing speakers? Give us something about what you like about each and why you prefer one over the others or some such. Strengths versus weaknesses and rankings or anything like that as I for one will never hear these amazing speakers and have to live vicariously through you. Are you familiar with Glow In The Dark Audio's web page? http://www.glowinthedarkaudio.com I would love to see something like that from you with whatever you wanted to post and when the DIY projects die down.
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Tony Seasoned Member Offline "Life without...music is inconceivable" A.Einsteln Posts: 865 Berkeley, CA	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #81 - 11/09/21 at 19:18:29 Scott, Thanks for the link. Can you say anything more about the web site? Have you found it useful, and how so? Thanks. BTW, Great playlist on this site.
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Delta 77 Senior Member Offline Posts: 57	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #82 - 03/23/22 at 18:34:22 Wow that last one is Very Interesting..!! Hope your doing Okay Charlie, haven't seen anything from you in a while..
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Tommy Freefall Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 433 Somewhere in Texas	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #83 - 04/21/22 at 15:50:46 Hey Charles, those Jon Anderson speakers are interesting. Can you share any information on your 604s or 9844s?
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piezoman Ex Member	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #84 - 04/21/22 at 21:16:19 don't feed the monster.
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Reply #85 - 04/26/22 at 02:21:44

Hey Charles, those Jon Anderson speakers are interesting.
Can you share any information on your 604s or 9844s?

The "604's" are birch/maple with Rosewood veneered front baffles. The crossovers were built for me by Rick Craig at Selah Audio who recently passed away. The started at 620 cabinets but were built much better and ended up being almost 11cf. They use a PAS audio speaker with Renkus Heinz drivers.

The 9844's were a mint set of speakers/drivers that were pulled from a set of Altec cabinets that were an estate sale purchase. . Jon again built the vertical cabinets to be better than the factory built quality ever was and built new crossovers with very high end parts. The wood Yuichi horns have the Altec drivers on them and sound amazing to me.

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #86 - 04/26/22 at 02:26:38 Wow that last one is Very Interesting..!! Hope your doing Okay Charlie, haven't seen anything from you in a while.. Doing good and thank you. I have not had much new to post and I have sold off a lot of what I accumulated and settled into pretty much one set of speakers as of late.
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #87 - 04/26/22 at 02:34:23 don't feed the monster. ?
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BicycleJoe Lo-Fi Seasoned Member Offline It's all in one note, Just Listen Posts: 534	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #88 - 05/03/22 at 10:14:34 Excelsior!!!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #89 - 01/24/23 at 16:46:51
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Tommy Freefall Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 433 Somewhere in Texas	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #90 - 01/24/23 at 20:44:06 Very nice, Charles! Photos from a couple of years ago showed tube amps all over the place. Have you pared down your equipment inventory?
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #91 - 01/24/23 at 21:17:12 Still plenty tube gear. It has overflowed into an office, but I pull out whatever speakers and pieces as desired when the urges hit.
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Geno Seasoned Member Offline Without music, life would be a mistake. Posts: 2328 Pearl, MS	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #92 - 01/24/23 at 22:32:35 One thing is for sure Charlie boy - you got style... It is always a treat to see your setups! Best, Geno
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #93 - 02/02/23 at 13:57:33 Stonehenge GPA build project is in the final stages and hopefully will be in the main room very soon. :)
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Tony Seasoned Member Offline "Life without...music is inconceivable" A.Einsteln Posts: 865 Berkeley, CA	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #94 - 02/02/23 at 14:23:18 Charles, Great looking setup!
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #95 - 03/06/23 at 01:10:08 Here they are at home now for a few days.
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GroovySauce Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 936 East Tennessee	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #96 - 03/06/23 at 11:16:14 Thanks for sharing. Love seeing peoples setups. Are those super tweeters on top of the speakers? who makes them?
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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #97 - 03/06/23 at 17:01:40 Tweeters yes. They are Aperion Audio and have been great. They are more versatile, more sensitive, and are a 1/3 the price of my Townshend tweeters. The make some nice stuff. https://www.aperionaudio.com/collections/super-tweeter-speaker/products/copy-of-...
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Reply #98 - 03/06/23 at 22:01:39

Beautiful setup, Charles! :D

Are you a big reel-to-reel guy? I'm thinking about purchasing a tape machine. Curious what you'd recommend for a tape noob like myself.

I'm looking to buy some of the tapes Steve and Acoustic Productions sell. I pretty much stick to jazz and classical these days.

I'm chasing Steve's experience here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHvdt8EgEt8&list=FLji1cBfA2yu35roYdVB4lKA&index=...

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charles hidalgo Seasoned Member Offline Posts: 525 Central California	Re: Recent upgrades as of late.. With a few surprises! Reply #99 - 03/15/23 at 06:44:47 I do enjoy tape, and have for some time. I'm not sure about any recommendations as the budget would determine a big part of choices. Charlie C.1970
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