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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Beat_Dominator" data-source="post: 1246939" data-attributes="member: 560107">Alrighty, as I'm sure none of you know... I'm an aspiring audiophile and have been for a long, long time. Since I'm dumb I decided I'd spend almost all of the $ I made at work this summer on gear so that I could have a system like I've always wanted.The plans are still to build a pair of book shelf monitors, a powered sub, and there will be a turntable in the mix some time, it would be a shame to not take advantage of my parents crazy LP collection!My goal was simple, research, and buy something that will last me pretty much forever. My first stereo consisted of a Pioneer reciever, matching 6 disk changer, an old Akai cassette deck, one of the first Sony MD recorders, and my sweet RE30 Cirwin Vega's. That lasted me 15yrs, so I am aiming for about 25 with this stuff (if I can aviod the temptations!)So here are my components in detail in the order I recieved them.First off is a Parasound Halo P3 preamp. Made is 2001. Aside from being quite pretty, it has all of the pieces I was looking for, fully balanced XLR connections, output loop for EQ's and such, and a built in phono stage.<img src="http://www.lumicorpenterprises.com/~image/out.php/i313_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.lumicorpenterprises.com/~image/out.php/i346_2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://ich01.incheckhost.com/~img1//out.php/i367_3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />I thought the transformer was pretty spiffy looking.<img src="http://ich01.incheckhost.com/~img1//out.php/i381_4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Next up is an Arcam Alpha 8se CD player. Made in 1998. From the numerous reviews I have read it was one of the better CD stages you could buy. Plus, I can upgrade it to their newer player because the DAC is removable (see pic below). I think the newer DAC is like $300 though.<img src="http://www.lumicorpenterprises.com/~image/out.php/i291_5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://ich01.incheckhost.com/~img1//out.php/i407_6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Finally there is the Forte Model 6a amp. This is a solid state high bias class A/B design and acording to the manual one of the first amps to use "insulated gate bi-polar transistors" as the power devices in the output stage. Made in 1992, what I found interesting is that Forte was a division of Threshold audio and there were several well known engineers working on their designs. I also understand that these amps are stable down to crazy low loads in the sub 2ohm range, though I do not plan to use it in this way.<img src="http://ich01.incheckhost.com/~img1//out.php/i321_8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://ich01.incheckhost.com/~img1//out.php/i429_9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://ich01.incheckhost.com/~img1//out.php/i439_10.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It uses Monster Cable on the caps and the transformer? Pretty weird.<img src="http://www.lumicorpenterprises.com/~image/out.php/i456_11.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Well that's all of it for now. Now I plan to build a nice shelf for all of it, get some decent interconnects, and then build my speakers. Let's pray it works!P.S. Tubes ****!</blockquote>

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