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Post by pete on Feb 8, 2022 10:06:45 GMT
Great post Pete, Jukebox, any chance of a pic  Can't fault your vinyl purchases, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull. It is the model on my profile picture, I will post a couple of others up on here later  Gotta love a bit of Tull!! |
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Post by pete on Feb 8, 2022 17:30:16 GMT
Here are some pictures of the jukebox. Starting with the amp, and then the rest of the beast. All this to play 40 singles, both sides of course!!   |
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Post by electronumpty on Feb 8, 2022 17:38:56 GMT
Thats fantastic!
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Post by stevew on Feb 8, 2022 18:26:53 GMT
D9 please
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Post by antonio on Feb 9, 2022 0:26:56 GMT
D9!!! That's the theme to the Magic Roundabout.
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Post by Bigman80 on Feb 9, 2022 6:33:59 GMT
WOW!!!! That is epic lol
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Post by stevew on Feb 9, 2022 10:07:04 GMT
Actually, now I’ve realised that you can actually see the numbers and singles titles.. it’s gotta be Silver Machine at no. 75
Loons and the smell of patchouli man.
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Post by pete on Feb 9, 2022 11:57:29 GMT
Actually, now I’ve realised that you can actually see the numbers and singles titles.. it’s gotta be Silver Machine at no. 75 Loons and the smell of patchouli man. Good choice, still have the loons |
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Post by pete on Mar 24, 2022 18:52:24 GMT
Been a while since i added to my audio adventure.
I am more focussed on my current, real time adventure, which I will get to write about very soon, so much is happening.
But, let me go back, further back.....
There was quite a time when I was happily enjoying my system, time was passing, with Naim amps and speakers and LP12. Pressures of work and life meant that I was not listening as much as I would like, but I kept buying LPs.
The addition of my Salience phono amp was an eye opener. I just wanted something different and better to the inbuilt phono cards. So I spent a little time on ebay to see what was around, cross referencing to online reviews. I wanted something good, if not great, and getting away from the mainstream would be good. Up popped the Salience - rare in the UK.
It was a second hand unit that was luxurious and high end, for not high end money. From the first moment plugging in it was WOW. Massive soundstage, toe tapping rhythms and real engagement and love of the sounds that it generated to feed my amps. Great fun, and real engagement with the music. As I listened to more, as time available increased, I loved it more and more, which got me appreciating what components I had and how I may make them better. As I had Naim stuff I thought of just making it better. Over the years I looked to make the sound better and better with well chosen, second hand kit. At the time bargains were there to be had. Eventually I ended up with a real high end Naim system, mono block 135s and all the associated kit that a Naim fan would wet themselves over. I uprated the LP12 a bit too. The Naim sound had reached new top levels of 'Naiminess'.
Don't know why, but I looked to the phono stage, that I had for a few years, at this point, and thought, it must be able to be bettered. It was then I found the BB3.
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Post by pete on Mar 27, 2022 10:12:36 GMT
Just looking through some notes I made and realised that I wrote a review of my BB3 after 50 hours:
I have been loving my BB3 for 3 months now, life has been busy so I have only got about 50 hours on it, but thought I would like to put down my thoughts on my journey with it to this point.
Firstly, my other phono stage is a Salience, also sold as a Jasmine. It is made by a manufacturer in China that specialises in valve amps, it is a 2 box solid state design. It is a thing of beauty, both to look at and to listen too, far better that I had realised, but more of that later. The real positives of the Salience is a massive sound stage and a real engagement with the music. It just makes listening great.
So, onto the BB3. As others have said before, out of the box it looks amazing and oozes real quality. It is beautifully put together with an amazing attention to detail. My first listen though was a bit disappointing. The sound was very engaging, but it was a bit ‘shouty’ in higher frequencies and lower frequencies were a bit muddled, what have I done, I thought!! I couldn’t understand it as everyone loves the BB3, something must not be right.
I had talked with Oliver about how I felt my current interconnect could do with improving, he had put one of his Phantom cables in the box, so to be fair to the BB3, and the cable I swapped back to the Salience with the new cable to see how it improved the old phono stage. Out of the box it was amazing. The Salience with the Phantom seemed to be the biggest upgrade I had done in a long time, the increase in soundstage, depth of sound, the beauty in the way notes started and decayed, the cables were amazing, I started playing LPs I hadn’t heard for a while and the enjoyment I was getting from the music was incredible. I thought the upgrade in sound I was hoping for had been delivered without even connecting up the BB3. I contacted Oliver and told hm the sound stage was so great that if I shift the balance to just one speaker you would swear the other one is still playing. I had to go right up to the speaker to check it wasn’t!
Then I connected the BB3, things were really sounding interesting. I was getting everything I was getting from the Salience, but more of it. Beautiful definition in the higher frequencies, lower frequencies were just getting better and better, mid frequencies were a little muddled though, and the sound stage was limited. After about 20hrs the BB3 it was really opening up and I was starting to get the increased soundstage, left and right. I mentioned before about the single speaker thing with the Salience. I got the same with the BB3, but weirdly, only from the left speaker. Balance just to the left appeared RH speaker still playing, to the right definitely just the right. A couple more hours in and it was happening to both sides, it was amazing hearing the changes,
I am now up to 50 hours and it is just wow. Mega soundstage, fantastic bass extension, and that mid range has completely opened up and instruments just flow. Even vocals which appeared muddled previously are completely clear and I can follow every word. Records which have poor sound quality suddenly have loads more to offer. Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, a brilliant album, but with the BB3 there is so much more there in the mix, the music just flows over you, and through you, the LP is a thing of genius, Hawkwind live at the BBC, you are there in the audience, Lemmy’s bass playing is a revelation, I could go on and on and know it is only going to get better. I am using stock valves while everything is settling down and opening up, but looking out for some different ones to try after another 50 hours or so.
The BB3 is bloody brilliant.
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