The CD player was a Pioneer PDS802. It's been transformed. These CD players are incredibly well designed and very poorly contructed.
They feature dual power supplies, an interesting linear phase digital filter,
balanced digital lines feeding 4 DA converters, a stable platter drive unit,
a *really* bad enclosure, lousy clock, along with a mediocre balanced to single ended output.
Fix the problems and it's something special.
The turntable is a collection of bits mainly from an Empire 598.
The arm is an RB300 with an internal carbon fibre damper, VTA adjustment, decent wire.
Cartridge is a modified/damped sumiko blue point special.
Plinth is about 20 layers of pine ply with carbon fibre on top,
and a bearing made by a friend of mine. The motor is a beauty,
an outer rotor synchronous motor from papst. These were designed
as capstan drives for professional tape recorders. They are essentially
cogging free.
Amplifiers are heavily modified NVAs in an active biamp configuration.
They are minimalist transistor amps, with little feedback, and dalington outputs.
The speakers are folded horns (sorta) a Focal 7A midbass and modified pioneer ribbon tweeters.
The whole top of them is carbon fibre, the rest, sand filled ply.
Cables are cat5 for the speakers, and kynar silver plated wire wrap wire for line level analog.
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