New Stereomour II

[Alonzo]

Yeah, it looks great, thank you for the sale.  My system is a mish mash of colors and stained BH bases and Blumenstein bases.  My final upgrade will be to get them all in Koa bases and either copper or black chrome coated top plates.  Nothing matches now (blue Stereomour II, blue BeePre, hammered copper Stereomour, black and brass Stereomour, red Stereomour , naked Mainline and naked Smash and the copper one waiting to be finished.  I wish I had the skill (and patience) of someone like Leeland, he makes some great looking gear.

Dave was hospitalized for an internal issue, infection and system failure.  The details are on his forum.  He's now home recuperating.  Hopefully he has a full recovery.

Good to see you back on the forum, hope your health keeps improving.
Alonzo

 

[jrebman]

Today Imoved my rack out from the wall as I'm having the trim in my listening room painted -- a greyish sage green to complement the battleship grey accent wall and the sandy beige that covers the other walls. The chair cushions are a sage color and so is the area rug that will go down once the speakers are placed. Yeah, I can't see a bit of it, but like the gear, I want the room to look nice too. There are two ficus plants in the front corners in pots and sitting on black lacquered 2" thick platforms. Then it will either be the bamboo Orcas and baby benthic subs and amps for a two-tone look, and the Abbys will match the rack when I put them in. So, I'll be alternating speakers as the spirit moves me. Of course the current el-84 amp is a bright Porsche Racing Ruby Red, and the stereomour II (if I decide to build one) will go in the birch box, and I may build a base for the s.e.x. 2.1 that matches the walnut earcups on the Meze 99's. Oh, and the main floor is carpeted with a beige burbur -- all wool so as to minimize static buildup.

At this point I can only manage 3-4 hours a day to work on things, so I try to get as much done every day, that I possibly can. Today, when I pulled out the rack I did all the wiring to connect the sub amps to the main amp, so the only thing left to do there is to run the speaker cables to the subs themselves, which isn't very practical nowat this time. Whatever I end up doing on the amps, I promise they will look and sound great. Time to start oiling the birch stereomour II base...

Just have to have it all looking good. Of course I'll send pics when it's all together.

Your son sounds a good bit like me.

Take care,

Jim

 

[Jamier]

Hi Alonzo,

    Are you also using the EXO-003 in your SII? What are your observations of the change from the stock configuration?

Jamie

 

[Alonzo]

Hi Jamie,
Nope, currently it has Mike's BCP15+ in it as plate chokes.  Had those on hand in another amp so I swapped the stock PC-3's for them.
I've changed a lot from stock, only was stock long enough to do the voltage checks and a quick sound check. And I changed plate chokes at the same time I changed outputs so I couldn't truthfully tell you which made the great sounds I hear now.  I can say I like the combination of 3K transformers and the BCP15+ chokes even though the specs aren't perfect to the design of the Stereomour II. 

 

[Jamier]

Hi Alonzo,

        So, with that OPT/plate choke combo are you essentially running the set-up that PJ descibed in Greg's thread, 300V (plate to cathode)/ 60mA / 3KOPT with the JJ 2A3 -40 ?

 

[Alonzo]

But with Full Music Meshplates now.  Moved my pair of 2A3-40's over to my Stereomour I with Dowdy chokes (and 3K outputs).  Still mixing and matching tubes - amps - speakers to find out which is best.

 

[Paul Joppa]

Hi Alonzo,

        So, with that OPT/plate choke combo are you essentially running the set-up that PJ descibed in Greg's thread, 300V (plate to cathode)/ 60mA / 3KOPT with the JJ 2A3 -40 ?

The BCP-15 is limited to 50mA current. That would be the stock operating point at 300v plate to cathode.

 

[Alonzo]

Thanks Paul!  I should think before I type, don't know where I got that number.