Incoming! The New Equipment Thread

Ended up redoing basically the whole setup. Haven’t switched rooms yet as my wife wanted to wait until after the holidays and since I’m not in the mood to move the vinyl right now I’m good with that.

I ended up deciding that saving space was not the hugest of issues, but I wanted to decrease my footprint a bit. Ended up cutting 2 boxes and a sub.

Out: MoFi PrecisionDeck, Luxman M700u, PL EVO300 pre, Luxman D03x, Pass XP15 phono, REL Classic 98 sub, Sennheiser HDVA 600.

In: see signature.

Even after ordering 8 KT120’s, I also cleared some nice coin.

Been listening to the Pontus with the headphones and love the way it sounds. Tons of detail but not overly done. 20/20 is here but the turntable isn’t shipping until first week of January.

I’m looking forward to creating the new space upstairs and giving this setup a run for a while. I don’t feel like I’m going to miss out on much… other than the Luxman meters. Still have the Brimar tubes I was using in the EVO300 pre which I’ll use in the 400.

My listening is still going to need to lean to mostly headphones and my understanding is that the headphone section of the EVO 400 is very nice.

We’ll see where this goes.
 
Slimwhit33 said:
Ended up redoing basically the whole setup. Haven’t switched rooms yet as my wife wanted to wait until after the holidays and since I’m not in the mood to move the vinyl right now I’m good with that.

I ended up deciding that saving space was not the hugest of issues, but I wanted to decrease my footprint a bit. Ended up cutting 2 boxes and a sub.

Out: MoFi PrecisionDeck, Luxman M700u, PL EVO300 pre, Luxman D03x, Pass XP15 phono, REL Classic 98 sub, Sennheiser HDVA 600.

In: see signature.

Even after ordering 8 KT120’s, I also cleared some nice coin.

Been listening to the Pontus with the headphones and love the way it sounds. Tons of detail but not overly done. 20/20 is here but the turntable isn’t shipping until first week of January.

I’m looking forward to creating the new space upstairs and giving this setup a run for a while. I don’t feel like I’m going to miss out on much… other than the Luxman meters. Still have the Brimar tubes I was using in the EVO300 pre which I’ll use in the 400.

My listening is still going to need to lean to mostly headphones and my understanding is that the headphone section of the EVO 400 is very nice.

We’ll see where this goes.
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You went with the 400, nice! That is a lot of tubes though, not wanting to spring for 8 is totally why I have the 300 power amp!
 
Joe Mac said:
You went with the 400, nice! That is a lot of tubes though, not wanting to spring for 8 is totally why I have the 300 power amp!
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It’s a lot of tubes for sure. It’s coming with 2 yr old stock set of tubes. I will use my Brimar CV4003’s and I ordered 8 KT-120’s and will save the EL34’s and 12au7’s as backups.

Hoping that the KT120’s are reliable..
 
Just bought these bad boys

Zu DWX Supreme - Walnut

Did a bunch of research and it seems these are getting high praise from all the people I trust in HiFi so decided to pull the trigger before they see a price increase in January.

Even better is that they had this specific pair in their ready to ship section so they apparently ship within 2 days. Ordering this specific upgrade tier and finish through the general product listing page cites a 8 to 10 week wait. So I’m glad I can get my hands on these in the next few weeks.

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Ghost said:
Just bought these bad boys

Zu DWX Supreme - Walnut

Did a bunch of research and it seems these are getting high praise from all the people I trust in HiFi so decided to pull the trigger before they see a price increase in January.

Even better is that they had this specific pair in their ready to ship section so they apparently ship within 2 days. Ordering this specific upgrade tier and finish through the general product listing page cites a 8 to 10 week wait. So I’m glad I can get my hands on these in the next few weeks.

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Nothing beats instant gratification. 👍
 
Ghost said:
Just bought these bad boys

Zu DWX Supreme - Walnut

Did a bunch of research and it seems these are getting high praise from all the people I trust in HiFi so decided to pull the trigger before they see a price increase in January.

Even better is that they had this specific pair in their ready to ship section so they apparently ship within 2 days. Ordering this specific upgrade tier and finish through the general product listing page cites a 8 to 10 week wait. So I’m glad I can get my hands on these in the next few weeks.

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I look forward to the review. It’ll be good to hear how they pair with the Kinki.
 
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mindhead1 said:
I look forward to the review. It’ll be good to hear how they pair with the Kinki.
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Yessss! I’m very excited to give them a whirl. Maybe I can start a DWX train and reduce Linton dominance hahaha.

The pic I shared can be deceiving but that’s a 10 inch driver on the front, this bookshelf speaker is essentially the same size as the Linton! It’s a big boy
 
Ghost said:
Already got a shipping notification! Next stop:

The Brooklyn Zu!!
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There's a soccer bar in Portland, ME called "The Portland Zoo" and I wear a shirt from them periodically. The amount of times I've had to explain to folks that it's not an actual zoo is mildly annoying.

Anyways, on the incoming equipment front, currently mulling over a change along the lines of:

Out: OC9XML, KAB Fluid damper
In: Sumiko Blue Point No. 3

Waiting on my Herbies mat to get here (well, it's in Maine, just sitting...fucking holidays.....) and a replacement VTF scale to test out some life without the damper before I get too in the weeds.
 
ngower said:
There's a soccer bar in Portland, ME called "The Portland Zoo" and I wear a shirt from them periodically. The amount of times I've had to explain to folks that it's not an actual zoo is mildly annoying.

Anyways, on the incoming equipment front, currently mulling over a change along the lines of:

Out: OC9XML, KAB Fluid damper
In: Sumiko Blue Point No. 3

Waiting on my Herbies mat to get here (well, it's in Maine, just sitting...fucking holidays.....) and a replacement VTF scale to test out some life without the damper before I get too in the weeds.
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Which Herbie’s mat did you go for?
 
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