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Note: scroll to photos 5 and 6 for the TD127
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Cello Performance II mono block amplifiers power Dali 40se speakers
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Photo 2: turntables, pre-amps, phono stages, CD transport and DAC. Mohogany equipment stands
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Photo 3. Micros Seiki RX5000 with Triplanar/Koetsu Black - Audiocraft AC3300/AT ART-2000 - for Jazz!
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Photo 4: Mchell Orbe turntable with Fidelity Research 64X tonearm / EMT TSD15 cartridge
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Photo 5 & 6: Thorens TD127 with SME 3012 tonearm with Ortofon SPU Meister Silver GM - For Classical
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Photo 7: Audio Note ANS-8p silver wire step-up transformer and Mark Levinson ML25s Phono stage.
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Photo 8: Cello Audio Palette equalizer
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Cello Audio suite pre-amplifier with its replaceable modules and a
recent full Viola upgrade, sits above the Weiss DAC.
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Weiss
Medea Reference DAC
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Studer
A730 CD transport
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Close-up
detail of the Tri-planar tonearm
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Long view of the Tri-planar, on the Michell Orbe
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Component List:
Turntables, tonearms and cartridges:
1) Micro Seiki RX5000
with Triplanar tonearm and Koetsu Black MC Cartridge and Audiocraft
AC3300 tonearm with AT ART-2000 cartridge.
2) J A Michell Orbe
with Fidelity Research 64fx with EMT TSD15 cartridge
3) Thorens
TD127 (a long base TD126) with SME 3012r tonearm and Ortofon Meister
Silver GM cartridge.
CD Transport: Studer A730
D/A: Weiss
Medea Reference
Preamp: Cello Audio Suite with P101 MC phono
module, P201 Viola Audio Labs OTA-3B upgrade CD module, P301 Viola Audio
Labs OTA-5B upgrade output module, all the modules are using ASR-3 power
supply card and Cello Master Power Supply.
EQ: Cello Audio
Palette MIV with Cello Master Power Supply.
Power Amps: Cello
Performance II
Speakers: Dali 40SE
Power Cable: Aural
Symphonics Missing Link Gen IIi, Siltech SPX-20, Taralabs Titan II,
Almor, NBS Professional.
Phono cable: Cotter, VDH 502
Digital cable: Apogee Wide Eye A/D
Interconnect cable: Taralabs
'THE ONE' balance, Cello String 1 with Fisher balance.
Speaker
cable: Cello String 3 bi-wire.
Power conditioner: Lightspeed
Tom's thoughts on the system:
"This system produces a very
high resolution, deep width soundstage, very detailed, high speed of
bass and very good dynamic. I very much enjoy the jazz reproduced by
this system!"