New Cornwalls

[lshannon]

Hi,

I recently recieved my cornwalls from fini

(great packing job Fini).

They are now set up in my office where I assembled

a predominately tube system on the cheap:

Dynaco FM-3 tube tuner

Dynaco PAS-2 tube Preamp

Antique Sound Lab av-8s tube amps

Cornwall speakers

Go Video - dvd/CD/mp3 player

They are my first set of cornwalls and they sound marvelous. I relied heavily on postings from the

forum for my purchase of the cornwalls and my first

foray into the "tube" world.

This is a great forum.

Thanks everyone,

- Lee

[jhawk92]

Congrats on a great system. While I haven't heard your specific amps, tubes and Cornwalls are an impressive combination which you will enjoy for a long time. Now just wait until the upgrade bug hits. All the forum members know I am not kidding!

[leok]

Congratulations,

It looks to me like you've made a very good set of decisions about speakers, amplifiers, and sources. I'm sure the result is wonderful.

leok

[Frzninvt]

So do you have the Cornwall Vault II that Fini constructed still? The other one is temporarily in for service/inspection. Might my brother in law Gilbert use it? We need to get it to Boston, MA as soon as possible. Please let me know. Thanks.

[lshannon]

Thanks for the congrats and your accurate prediction.

I wanted to see what a stock Dynaco pre-amp sounded like first.

I am already thinking of buying a heavily modded (?) Dynaco PAS-3

from Curcio Audio (AKA the Dynaco Doctor). Even though it

costs more than a new Antique Sound labs tube pre-amp, I want

to go for the retro look with my office system and I have

read good things about how they sound when modded.

http://curcioaudio.com/pasdes_3.htm

After that I was thinking of getting a set of ALK crossovers

for it. If I can get someone to build them at a reasonable

price I may have a set made for my home speakers (Heresys).

So, you are right, the up-grade bug has already hit.

- Lee