Marantz Esotec SC-6 pre and MA-5 mono blocks that will be familiar to a few here, complimented nicely by a new vinyl purchase of ‘Rare Birds’ by Jonathan Wilson (complete accident of course).
Considering gold teeth, or maybe just a bespoke case for my DDDAC 
Spooky, I ordered that last night from Piccadilly records, weirdly it was only £14.99 from their Discogs shop vs £27.99 from their own website.
Noooooooooooooooo.
Paid £28 from my local shop.
Mine must be real gold.
what ddac did you get or are getting ?
I bought Des’ (Soulman), a very nice sounding 1794 single board job. He made a very nice job of the power supplies to the dac and built in Rpi.
It was:
Now:
VTA looks out…
Is that the Ceremony 12” single you are playing? I’m sure it is either late JD or very early NO from the label.
Indeed it is, specifically “In a lonely place” on the B side, see “A picture…” thread
Did you pick up the RSD 12" a couple of years ago with JD demos of Ceremony/IALP on one side and NO versions on the other? Of the versions of IALP available this is the best available. IALP, and that version in particular, is one of my go to tracks when trying to determine if my stereo is working properly. It is an undervalued masterpiece of Hannet’s craft…
No I don’t have that. My copy is from many many years ago.
My favourite version of IALP was when they played live at the BBC on the telly and Barney spends most of the song telling Stephen to drum faster. By the end his arms are flying like a dervish.
Are the JD versions the same as on the Heart and Soul cd compilation? I have that
Trying a different DAC in my main system (Tascam DA-3000), really rather loving it at the moment.
Also a different power amp (Art Quintet) and DAC (Teac DA-700) in my second system.
Watch the DAC getting hot from the amp underneath bob.
Looking nice though 
Lots of gap and the rack is made of granite
How is the Tascam? - was looking at that or the HS-20, which can be networked, for DAC and vinyl rips.
Lots of detail, a little bright, oddly it gets brighter if you leave it on for a while. It also gets quite warm, so you need a bit of ventilation.
Not sure I like the light show, not worked out yet how to switch it off. Looks like 1980s cassette deck meters. I am using coax in and balanced out, as the Teac D700 only has coax or toslink. Balanced output is true balanced and 6dB louder.
Not as natural as the Audio Syntesis DAX Discrete I normally use.
Not tried it yet as an analogue to digital converter. The record feature and usb connection is good. You could use it as a source.
The manual is a book.
You are welcome to borrow it.
Thank you for your impressions and amazingly kind offer. Will have a think!
I also have a Soniflex ADDA and the Tascam is a lot better.
OK, that’s worth knowing
For anyone interested these are " adequate " On the 4 Ohm tap they have a little valve noise through the speakers with your ears within inches of the drivers. Once any music is playing this is not discernible. The upside is that 4 Ohm tap gives a much better control of the drivers and greater headroom. Even on Class A 25W setting loudness is not a limiting factor. These are better than the AR D115 that I previously used.
Not quite up to 100 hours on the valves yet but control/ hear through into the recording techniques on different recordings is improving.
Apart from their enormous size and large glowing valves they can disappear on suitably recorded music whether digital or vinyl. I quite like them 
