And they are one of the very few amplifiers with a regulated high voltage bus. Roger knows what he’s doing.
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@paul172 changed my room today:
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I am falling in love with this Pass Labs XP-12 preamp. Wayne Colburn and Nelson Pass have hit a home run with this component. No need for vacuum tubes to achieve that tubey magic IMHO. Detail and sweetness in just the right proportion. Wow!
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Plus she’s pretty
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And has great “knob feel”!
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I started out in hi-fi as a bit of a Pioneer fanboy. My first component system had their PL12D turntable and an SX-727 receiver. I always lusted after one of those RtR decks (or one of their later “horizontal” smaller ones), but the closest I ever got was one of their CTF-9191 cassette decks.
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Me too! SX-1050 receiver, PL-510 turntable and HPM-100 speakers. I gave the HPM-100s to my father in-law for his stereo/tv. Sounded great there. When they passed (couple years now), speakers were sold, in 10 seconds, for $200. Think I paid $300 for them in 1976.
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Well the RT-1020L I have now, my father purchased just a few years ago and had it gone through.
However, when I was a little goober, my father had purchased a brand new RT-707 in 1979 along with all of the Technics gear he purchased then, including the SL-1700MK2 I’m running. Unfortunately, the 707 developed some issues and he got rid of it around 1990.
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@pikpen - I did the BD in VISIO. I like it cause it is vector graphics and scaling a pic is really easy.
My humble rig with the assistance of the folks in these forums. From the top, Marantz SA14S1 SACD player, DSD Sr., Aurender N100H 4TB with Matrix DDC, McIntosh C48 preamp, McIntosh MC500 power amp, Celestion Ditton 66 Studio Monitors, SVC SB-2000 Pro sub
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Very nice!
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Lovely monitors 
Are they original, or have you updated the crossovers?
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Looks like a decent CD collection in the background. Lol
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They are original but I have all new caps that have been sitting in a box for almost three years. It’s on my to-do list this summer.
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Let us know what difference it made please
I have some 50 year old Richard Allen Pavanes here I use sometimes - when I replaced the crossover (same design, just newer and better components) it made a big difference.
Only wrinkle was the mid range, which sounded better with a (new replacement) bipolar electrolytic, rather than the film capacitor (Solen) I used in my first attempt.
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The device in the foreground makes me very happy about what is in the background!
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My replacement caps are all Solen but I’ll have to keep that in mind, maybe try an A-B. Thanks
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I’d probably start from the top left and work my way to the right with the ethos! I’m sure that every CD would sound completely different and better than it ever has!
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Ah, Corel is also vector - thus the familiarity. Thanks 
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