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Living Voice OBX-R2

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Oct 2013 – I finally found a cost effective and superior cable to swap out my Audio Tekne (500 litz strand of silver on copper). I’m loving the see through honesty of Japan Nanotec’s #207 interconnect with SP#79SR+SP#79Special speaker cables. I also swapped out my Emission Labs 5ug4 with a NOS RTC 5R4GYS instead. Sounding gorgeous.

Feb 2013 – many of my previous tweaks have now been REMOVED following a holistic house wide approach to power using Alan Maher products. No more shun mook discs/cable jackets, no more ERS, crystals, Quantum Symphony Pro etc

Dec 2012 – replaced power amp tubes with Psvane EL84s…lovely. Why would anyone bother with NOS anymore is beyond me when modern tubes are this good.

July 2012: Swapped cyro Russian Military EL84’s w NOS Phillips and added Alan Maher Quantum power tweaks

Source:
Modwright Oppo 83SE CDP
Driver tubes are PSVANE T-II CV181-Z (6SN7) whilst tube stage on external PSU is regulated using an NOS RTC 5R4GYS

Amplification:
Tube Distinctions SoulMate
Tom Evans Linear A (25 watts hybrid SET) with 2 x quad PSVANE EL84

Speakers:
Living Voice OBX-R2 in Cherry finish

Accessories (not all used):
Nanotec #207 interconnects and SP#79SR+SP#79Special speaker cables, Audio Tekne copper litz interconnects, speaker cables, power cords , Sablon Audio Grand Corona powercords, BPT PowerCentre (with Oyaide plugs) & L-9C powercord, Finite Elemente Pagode Signature & Cerapuc, Symposium Platforms/Rollerballs/Stillpoints & ERS paper, QRT Symphony Pro, Shun Mook Mpingo discs/Cable Jackets, Machina Dynamica Clever Clocks, Oyaide plugs, Furutech fuses, Marigo Signature CD Mat

Liver Building, Liverpool

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The Royal Liver Building
www.mersey-gateway.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.1322

"The Royal Liver Building is arguably the most famous building in Liverpool. It was designed in 1908 by Walter A. Thomas and was completed in 1911.

"At the top of the building, sat on each of the two towers are the mythical Liver Birds, the symbol of Liverpool. They are 18 feet tall, have a total wing span of 24 feet and are made of copper. Local legend has it that if they fly away, Liverpool will cease to exist. The Liver Birds are a cross between an eagle and a cormorant (the bird of good luck to sailors). A German sculptor called Carl Bernard Bartels, who was living in England, designed them. When the Great War broke out, Carl Bernard Bartels was arrested as a German citizen and imprisoned on the Isle of Man. The City of Liverpool removed all reference to his achievements and at the end of the war, despite having a wife in London, he was sent back to Germany.

"The clocks, 25 feet in diameter, are bigger than the clocks in London’s Big Ben and are the largest electrically driven clocks in the United Kingdom. They were built to give mariners the most accurate local time and are said to be accurate to within thirty seconds per year."

Tangentially, see my photo Surf that reminds some of Walter Crane’s painting, Neptune’s Horses. Crane was born in Liverpool.