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Since Sound in new home is mostly set I kind lost interest to do anything “project-wise”. I play my music and I gradually tune ingredients to get the sonic mixture that I accustom to. Last two week I was slowly playing with my analog setup. Since it will be more or less permanent setup, well as permanent as anything else in our life, I would like to do it once and never do it again.

The phonostage is incontestably my “End of the Life Phonostage” but I had some difficulty to position its power supply. It sits on the top of the rack, under PC monitor. The control RIAA unit is where it was designed to be - behind the TT on the left, where all 4 phono-cables can reach it. I would like to constrict a small harness the would host all 4 cables and hang them over 2 phonostage RCA jacks.

I deseed to stay with one deck version, 4 arms is plenty, in fact even 3 would be enough for me. My stereo arm is the same as was before 3012 with Ortofon Jubilee. My mono arms are 3009 with Ortofon Mono but I might change this cartridge. I love Ortofon Mono but I loved my old Ortofon Mono that I accidently killed. This one, the identical replacement does not sound as good in my view.  I might also  replace the  3009 arm with second 3012, but it is not too high in my priority – I has been sinking about it for years and if a chip 3012 will come to my end then I would do it. The dally arm is Micro 282. I have many fast-replaceable wands for it and many cartridges. The last arm is SME 2-12, I do not know if I will connect it, I am still contemplating…

The TT is very much the same and the rest as it use to be. I run the TT motor from PP2000 via motion switch. The change is because I very frequently forgot to shut down the TT motor and it with air pump were running for days. Now, when the TT is very far from my listening sit I feel that I need some kind of automatic shot down. So, I use one output from house security system and added a dedicated motion detector over TT. In 45 minutes of no action the switch shuts down air pump and TT motor.

Everything looks and feel very good with an exception that the TT is too far from the location what are my records are store.  The ceremony is go to one side of room/house to get a record and then to do another side to play it. This approach has own cons and pros and I am not sure if I like it.  I do have space to keep records near TT but the problem is that at the location what it might be there are a lot of baseboard heaters – not good to keep records in there. I might call to my plumber and bypass the heaters at this location but I would need to have a strong will to do so. I still did not decide.

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