Hello Everyone,
My name is Mark and I am hopelessly addicted to professional sound reinforcement (loud music reproduction). I am mostly old-school with a fascination with tube amps but not afraid of the little cans and plastic things with wires sticking out. My other audio pastime is a failed career as a bassist. I play (play around) with a Gibson EBO-L, Ampeg tube amp, and 4x12" bottom with JBL 2206 drivers. I also play through a 1000W MOSFET amp that I built myself. It makes a lot of noise but not much bass music.
My 5.1 home theater uses a Marantz 2285 through a Marantz DP870 digital processor, a Sound Valves VT-70i (a Dynaco clone) for the rears, and I use a Dynaco Mark IV tube amp for the center channel. I drive four JBL L-36 cabinets for the mains and a 15" Titanic subwoofer on my own box powered by a Crown MicroTech 600.
For fun I refurbish and mod power amps and they have a way of turning into full equipment stacks, which is not a bad thing I guess. I recently completed an upgrade on a Hafler 220 amp (standard stuff - gold connectors, star grounding topology, updated electro caps, bypass caps, and IEC filtered power plug). Then I had to get a Hafler IRIS preamp; this one had none of the IRIS bus cables, so I made up two sets of those. I found a remote in an upstate New York Craigslist and the IRIS CD player and IRIS FM tuner soon followed.
All this goodness gets dumped to a pair of "garage speakers" that I recently built. They look like stage monitors or small DJ speakers. The drivers are a JBL M115 musical instrument speaker and a JBL 2426 horn driver mated to a 2370A dispersion horn. I used an 800hz 3110 passive crossover and they are so loud that I can hear them clearly across the street (they are in the living room).
My current project is a Phase Linear 700B that was abused in a nightclub; I say that because the inside had a layer of goo in it and it smelled like beer. I have the associated Phase Linear 2000 preamp, 5000 tuner, 1000 signal processor, so I just need to get the amp up and running. It has all the original parts including the 20 output transistors with 1974 date codes and they all check good. I was getting ready to get into it recently until I found out from another board member that Joe over at White Oak Audio has come up with a new design for a Phase Linear main board. I am on the list to get one and I can't wait because Joe's stuff is really good.
I'm happy to be here.
Mark
My name is Mark and I am hopelessly addicted to professional sound reinforcement (loud music reproduction). I am mostly old-school with a fascination with tube amps but not afraid of the little cans and plastic things with wires sticking out. My other audio pastime is a failed career as a bassist. I play (play around) with a Gibson EBO-L, Ampeg tube amp, and 4x12" bottom with JBL 2206 drivers. I also play through a 1000W MOSFET amp that I built myself. It makes a lot of noise but not much bass music.
My 5.1 home theater uses a Marantz 2285 through a Marantz DP870 digital processor, a Sound Valves VT-70i (a Dynaco clone) for the rears, and I use a Dynaco Mark IV tube amp for the center channel. I drive four JBL L-36 cabinets for the mains and a 15" Titanic subwoofer on my own box powered by a Crown MicroTech 600.
For fun I refurbish and mod power amps and they have a way of turning into full equipment stacks, which is not a bad thing I guess. I recently completed an upgrade on a Hafler 220 amp (standard stuff - gold connectors, star grounding topology, updated electro caps, bypass caps, and IEC filtered power plug). Then I had to get a Hafler IRIS preamp; this one had none of the IRIS bus cables, so I made up two sets of those. I found a remote in an upstate New York Craigslist and the IRIS CD player and IRIS FM tuner soon followed.
All this goodness gets dumped to a pair of "garage speakers" that I recently built. They look like stage monitors or small DJ speakers. The drivers are a JBL M115 musical instrument speaker and a JBL 2426 horn driver mated to a 2370A dispersion horn. I used an 800hz 3110 passive crossover and they are so loud that I can hear them clearly across the street (they are in the living room).
My current project is a Phase Linear 700B that was abused in a nightclub; I say that because the inside had a layer of goo in it and it smelled like beer. I have the associated Phase Linear 2000 preamp, 5000 tuner, 1000 signal processor, so I just need to get the amp up and running. It has all the original parts including the 20 output transistors with 1974 date codes and they all check good. I was getting ready to get into it recently until I found out from another board member that Joe over at White Oak Audio has come up with a new design for a Phase Linear main board. I am on the list to get one and I can't wait because Joe's stuff is really good.
I'm happy to be here.
Mark
