Capone Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 I thought it was about time I put some pictures and some details of my system Its been about 8 Months to get to this stage, pretty much the whole system was bought from other Stereonet people and I have to say that everyone that I have dealt with on this site has been nothing but great Ill start of with the speakers which are Vaf I91s mk2,a great sounding "Bookshelf" speaker, I like the detail and width of sound they produce this is married up with a pair of Vaf DC-S subwoofers which im in the process of dialling in All of this is fed by an Anthem 225,i love the bottom end of this amp which suits my taste in music, mainly grunge, hair metal, Blues rock With the recent addition of the subs its brought another element to the table The Turntable is a Rega Planer 3 GT upgrades ,platters,& with a Denon DL-110 cart. this is hooked into the Anthems onboard Phono stage For playing CD-SACD im just using an old panasonic Im using Audio Principe Bi-Wired speaker cables and will be getting some of there shielded RCA plugs as soon as im happy with the sub placement The home theatre side of things (which is separate) is run by a Denon AVR-2309 which I think does a great job for being a lower specked Denon The fronts and centre are again from the Vaf family and are the mighty I90s,love these little guys,but do need a sub for decent home theatre. my rears are nothing special at all, just some Teac towers. But seem to do the surround affects ok for the Blue-Rays im using a Panasonic Hard drive player,had it for quite a while and still going strong The Tv which is a 50 Inch Panasonic will be wall mounted shortly and the old Yamaha speaker that it is sitting on will be moved and the TT will be moved to the centre So there it is, its pretty much done for now (I did say for now), so now its time to get some more records to fil up the racks sorry about the quality of the piccis, it was done on my phone Capone 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batty Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Sweet as. Did Grumpy have any input Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elcamry Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Nice setup Capone , you hope you are done for now (very slim hope) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 (edited) I must say Batty that after first hearing Grumpys Vaf speakers all those years ago, its something that sticks in your mind, Gees it even made adverts on tv sound good so the Vaf influence definitely came from him Edited June 21, 2014 by capone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthlaker Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Looking good, Capone! Good to see the Dark Side is strong with you. Plenty of space for more LP's as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batty Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Love the counter balance on the tonearm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 Looking good, Capone! Good to see the Dark Side is strong with you. Plenty of space for more LP's as well! Theres always room for more LPs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batty Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Always room for more LPs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caddisgeek Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Looks great, but needs more records Funky looking counter weight too, any info on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Sweet as. Did Grumpy have any input No! No one listens to me anyway! Capone has heard my system a few times as it has evolved over the years to it's present state and fairly recently heard the Garrard playing some vinyl which seemed to bring a smile and an amazed look to his face - wasn't long after that when he told me he was purchasing his Rega.(and many many other bits of 'stuff' ) I haven't been able to have a listen to Capones system yet, but I will get there soon. It's really looking like a sweet system and having heard the 191's and a rega in other systems before I'm sure it's going to sound bloody great. Thanks for sharing Capone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 Looks great, but needs more records Funky looking counter weight too, any info on that? That funky counterweight is a Groove Tracer upgrade, it came with the TT when I bought it of RocknRollR (Nathan) My next focus is to fill the cupboards full of records As I hardly play CDs anymore im replacing them with vinyl, But Moneys getting in my way of doing this, go figure 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthlaker Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 That funky counterweight is a Groove Tracer upgrade, it came with the TT when I bought it of RocknRollR (Nathan) My next focus is to fill the cupboards full of records As I hardly play CDs anymore im replacing them with vinyl, But Moneys getting in my way of doing this, go figure What are CD's? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 What are CD's? Going back a year ago I wouldn't have thought that I would not want to purchase CDs anymore, But with the sound im now getting from vinyl, I ll be purchasing my future music on records, But in saying that some CDs still sound great on my system, and a SACD of DSOTM I was given by Grumpy sounds fantastic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockandorRoll Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Great looking system I cant help but think you must be able to meld the two systems so you dont need to run seperate fronts for HT and Stereo. Does the amp have a MIna INput / Pre Output function? You can put a switch box between them to act as a HT bypass Then move the i-90's to the rear TT is looking good btw, hope its all working out for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 Great looking system I cant help but think you must be able to meld the two systems so you dont need to run seperate fronts for HT and Stereo. Does the amp have a MIna INput / Pre Output function? You can put a switch box between them to act as a HT bypass Then move the i-90's to the rear TT is looking good btw, hope its all working out for you That's how it started out with I91s as the fronts and the I90s as the centre and surrounds But I have a wife and a daughter who were scaring the life out of me everytime they turned it on so went the separate route, I can now sleep at night PS-the TT is running fine, took me a while to set up right but all good now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yamaha_man Posted June 21, 2014 Share Posted June 21, 2014 Looking good mate, nice and neat Loving the topper on the centre speaker. Where's all the hotrod pics??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted June 21, 2014 Author Share Posted June 21, 2014 Looking good mate, nice and neat Loving the topper on the centre speaker. Where's all the hotrod pics??? The topper is a bit hard to hide all of the hotrod stuff is in the shed, away from view of the wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VladimirFreddie Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 (edited) Looking good! Glad your enjoying the journey Although I am kinda regretting not keeping another one of those i90s for myself! Edited June 24, 2014 by VladimirFreddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 Looking good! Glad your enjoying the journey Although I am kinda regretting not keeping another one of those i90s for myself! yeah they are a great speaker, especially now that they have loosened up a bit Im still moving things around trying to get "the" spot right but overall im pretty happy with the setup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 Ive currently got the two subs in at Vafs at the moment getting a once over, boy am I missing them I didn't realise how much of the bottom end work they were doing. I would suggest to anyone contemplating subs for there system to at least try it before dismissing them, im glad I did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batty Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 I had a Krix sub, one day thought I'd turn it off to see if I'd miss it, It wasn't switched on.. Sold it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 I had a Krix sub, one day thought I'd turn it off to see if I'd miss it, It wasn't switched on.. Sold it. your loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onbagz Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 If I'm correct you have to systems setup? Looks cool either way but I like it. Sent from my iPhone 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capone Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 yes Two Systems, that way the wife doesnt have to touch the HI-FI side of things,which in my case is a good thing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onbagz Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 2 5.1 systems? Sent from my iPhone 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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