Long lost TOCA

Mark

Collected my TOCA from Mr Quick yesterday, got it home, made all of the correct connections, plugged in the mains cable and went for it........ VOILA!!! The Fat Lady is singing her head off!!
The end of a 5 year wait

Docfoster

This is great news Mark.
So how well is the Fat Lady singing?

uglymusic

Five years?

That's a very long wait.

sovereign

She was obviously playing hard to get, so how does the old girl sound?

Mark

Terrible

Mark

Tisbury Audio Pre Amp coming next week

Mark

She has requested that she be known as TOG (the old girl)

uglymusic

I'd be interested to hear how the Tisbury sounds with the TOCA.

Mark

Me too, really looking forward to it, the review on Hi-fi Pig looks good

Mark

Will be needing a decent interconnect as well, any ideas?

Mark

Budget around £100

uglymusic

@Mark Yeah the HFP review does make it seem like a good thing ;-)

Does Paul - @PAC - still do interconnects?

Mark

I've messaged him concerning crossovers

Mark

Well, second day with TOG, I'm speechless, I'm a very lucky man to own a TOCA!

Mark

Thankyou very very much Mr Quick =;

Docfoster

You sound delighted.
Great news!
\:D/

Mark

Oh my word, delighted is diluted, I'm watching Dave Gilmour 'Live in Gdansk' it's emotional

Mark

All through the REGA DAC-R

sovereign

Fantastic !

Mark

Order placed for Tisbury Audio Mini Passive Pre, should be here in 3 days

AntiCrap

How much Mark is the Tisbury?

uglymusic

http://www.tisburyaudio.co.uk/mini-passive-preamplifier

AntiCrap

That looks bloody good , go for it Mark.

Mark

Wicked, I have God's approval

Mark

Not so sure which Interconnect to start with, any ideas chaps?

Alan

Something with low capacitance is usually a good bet for a passive pre. Most cables will probably be ok though especially if under a metre. I've heard of people using Mark Grant, Rega Couple (Klotz?), Epiphany Altratus, Gotham Gac-1 and NVA. I bet there are many, may others.

Enjoy your lovely amplifier!

AntiCrap

OK and there is TQ yer right use NVA never waste time on TQ again.

Alan

You know, I had forgotten that Geoff Merrigan designs TQ cables! He really is a special person...

AntiCrap

A Irish Pixie.

sovereign

Dies he smelt the copper as well

Mark

Merrigan can fornicate forth

Docfoster

Why on earth would he be using base metals...?
In this diagram from 1580 you can see a young Mr. Merrigan at work in his alchemy lab.

Mark

The REGA Couple makes sense as the rest of my equipment is REGA

Docfoster

Paul (RFC) here makes some well regarded interconnects.

AntiCrap

He does indeed.

Mark

So I've noticed, the Black Rhodium looks good

Mark

Reference Pluto I do believe

AntiCrap

No not that please. Not into a TOCA heaven forbid man that will be cruel and horrid NO

[Docfoster edit: A joke...?]

Mark

I've a budget of £150

Alan

Almost anything in that range ought to be good. I'm sure you could trial a few for a week and return what doesn't suit your system?

I've used some early interconnects from Paul (RFC) which were excellent - very like NVA SSP. I must have sold them though, as I cannot locate them anywhere.

Docfoster

Shamefully I've never tried any of Paul's cables...
If they're similar sounding to NVA SSP then I'd like them, as that's what I use. And speaking personally, I rather prefer the proprietor of RFC than I do the head honcho of NVA...

sovereign

Further to that I'm sure they won't snap as do SSP

Docfoster

Ooo, you bitch.

Alan

@mark :  Build a Rega Couple clone - Instructions here.

Mark

Now that is what forums are for, Alan, thank you very much, I'm confident at making a set and less than a metre

Mark

Just signed for a box, about 9"x6",inside I found a little gem, no not a lettuce, it's only the Tisbury Audio Mini Passive Pre, great looks, what a sound stage, clean, crisp, deep and rich, TOG, is ver ver happy

Alan

Pictures, or it never happened!

uglymusic

I keep hearing great things about the Tisbury Audio Passive.

If only it had a remote... :-D

Mark

I'm not able to post a pic as using a smart phone

Mark

I emailed Tisbury concerning a remote version, not one available at the moment!

uglymusic

I think Colin has got to them, Mark.