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I had the pleasure of spending Sunday afternoon at Duc's place (an Aladdin's cave of tube components and turntables :D ). Everything (basically) was different to what I have in my system:

  • horn mid with small ribbon tweeter and 2 x 15" woofers in a vented box for bass (vs. my Maggies)
  • idler drive TT (Garrard 301) on a beautiful plinth (made by Duc), with his latest wood-tube arm (vs. my belt drive LP12 / G2.2 with ceramic arm-tube)
  • a Duc-special tube power amp (vs. my AKSA 'Soraya' and 'Lifeforce' ss amps), and
  • Duc's latest tube phono stage (vs. my battery-powered, JFET phono stage).

All I can say is ... wow! What a beautiful sound it delivered. :love Perhaps the best I've ever heard from a hifi system ... so it will be interesting to see (hear!) how much better it is when he has his new Goto horns up and running.

Thank you, Duc. :thumb:

Andy

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I had the pleasure of spending Sunday afternoon at Duc's place (an Aladdin's cave of tube components and turntables :D ). Everything (basically) was different to what I have in my system:

  • horn mid with small ribbon tweeter and 2 x 15" woofers in a vented box for bass (vs. my Maggies)
  • idler drive TT (Garrard 301) on a beautiful plinth (made by Duc), with his latest wood-tube arm (vs. my belt drive LP12 / G2.2 with ceramic arm-tube)
  • a Duc-special tube power amp (vs. my AKSA 'Soraya' and 'Lifeforce' ss amps), and
  • Duc's latest tube phono stage (vs. my battery-powered, JFET phono stage).

All I can say is ... wow! What a beautiful sound it delivered. :love Perhaps the best I've ever heard from a hifi system ... so it will be interesting to see (hear!) how much better it is when he has his new Goto horns up and running.

Thank you, Duc. :thumb:

Andy

Good day Andy.

it was a pleasure to have you over and listen to your wonderful phono stage .I like it very much.

here is some pictures of what we was listen to so every eles can see what we are talking about :D

below is the Garrard 401 in a oz Hardwood plinth arm is the " Univector 12" with Cocobolo arm wand cartridge is ZYX fuji step up is Cotter.

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Cheers

Duc

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Aladdin's cave is very apt!

That table is absolutely lovely :love

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nice gear there. the garrard 401/12" arm looks lovely.

goto horns??! great stuff, up for a treat when they get going :)

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lovetube

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nice gear there. the garrard 401/12" arm looks lovely.

goto horns??! great stuff, up for a treat when they get going :)

the Goto system will be up and running in about month time.

Duc

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I had the pleasure of spending Sunday afternoon at Duc's place (an Aladdin's cave of tube components and turntables :D ). Everything (basically) was different to what I have in my system:

  • horn mid with small ribbon tweeter and 2 x 15" woofers in a vented box for bass (vs. my Maggies)
  • idler drive TT (Garrard 301) on a beautiful plinth (made by Duc), with his latest wood-tube arm (vs. my belt drive LP12 / G2.2 with ceramic arm-tube)
  • a Duc-special tube power amp (vs. my AKSA 'Soraya' and 'Lifeforce' ss amps), and
  • Duc's latest tube phono stage (vs. my battery-powered, JFET phono stage).

All I can say is ... wow! What a beautiful sound it delivered. :love Perhaps the best I've ever heard from a hifi system ... so it will be interesting to see (hear!) how much better it is when he has his new Goto horns up and running.

Thank you, Duc. :thumb:

Andy

One of the melbourne systems that is a work of art still remember my time at duc's it almost made me buy a TT.........for people in the west you must visit duc he knows his Sh1t

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Yes Duc's system is awesome. The speakers are a bit different to when I visited, so I bet it sounds even better. :thumb:

So Andy,do you believe in tubes yet? ;)

andyr Life Member

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Haha ... do I believe in tubes, yet, guys? :P Yes, they can deliver a wonderful musical experience ... but I think you need suitable speakers. If you have them ... then you get a great result - as I heard last Sunday! :thumb:My system - ss though it is - is made more enjoyable by the unity-gain tube output stage that Hugh Dean built into his GK-1 preamp ... that I know (having compared it with the sound I get when I bypass the tube output stage and just take the ss output). :) However, I couldn't run all tube (as i need 6 monoblocs). - my long-suffering wife would divorce me. ;)

Regards,

Andy

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Well done Duc and I'm pleased Andy really enjoyed your system..........a huge compliment too from a man with a sensational system of his own. I'm lucky to get to see Duc and listen to his system on a fairly regular basis and he genuinely does a superb job on his tonearms, turntables, tube amps and he's not bad at putting a pair of loudspeakers together either. :P I've recently bought and installed one of Duc's Univector tonearms and it is just a stunning bit of kit in Black African Ebony and especially matched to a Black African Ebony cartridge..................here it is. Sounds better than it looks too! :thumb:

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Cheers,

Keith

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Haha ... do I believe in tubes, yet, guys? :P Yes, they can deliver a wonderful musical experience ... but I think you need suitable speakers. If you have them ... then you get a great result - as I heard last Sunday! :thumb:My system - ss though it is - is made more enjoyable by the unity-gain tube output stage that Hugh Dean built into his GK-1 preamp ... that I know (having compared it with the sound I get when I bypass the tube output stage and just take the ss output). :) However, I couldn't run all tube (as i need 6 monoblocs). - my long-suffering wife would divorce me. ;)

Regards,

Andy

Duc,

Love the turntable. Mmm....reminds me of another one that you used to own. ; )

Thanks.

yeah I still remenber your 401 . that was a very high perfomance 401 , on that magnetic plinth the sound was very different than any other 401 i have heard in my system , . don't underate the look of it. take your time to carefully balance the plinth and you will see what I means,

Cheers

Duc

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Thanks.

yeah I still remenber your 401 . that was a very high perfomance 401 , on that magnetic plinth the sound was very different than any other 401 i have heard in my system , . don't underate the look of it. take your time to carefully balance the plinth and you will see what I means,

Cheers

Duc

Duc,

It is all about sound quality in my system. Don't worry I will make the effort to get it right.

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the Goto system will be up and running in about month time.

Duc

Always a good time at Duc. :) Sorry I couldn't make it.

Looking forward to hear the Gotos in the big room later.

Yes Duc's system is awesome. The speakers are a bit different to when I visited, so I bet it sounds even better. :thumb:

The bass cabinets ( double woofers now) and the mid range drivers are different now. And yes, it is better than before.

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