System Overview

5.2 Music-first dual-purpose HT system - Music is FLAC files ripped from CDs. HT is primarily Blu ray discs.

Room Description

Not the best, multi-functional living space. It is what it is.

Acoustic Treatment

Not yet, but soon, real soon...any day now...just around the corner...

Media Storage

DLNA servers feeding main system. 3ea. Raspberry Pi3 w/Moode Player & directly attached SSDs feeding 3ea. headphone DAC/amp stacks. 2TB directly attached to Oppo BDP93 via USB.

Components

DVD or LaserDisc Player

Oppo BDP-93 Bluray Player w/2TB HDD via USB.

Satellite or Cable

Cisco 8742HDC DVR.

Video Display

Panasonic TC-P65VT50 Plasma HDTV.

Receiver

Denon AVR-4520CI (powering center and surround channels).

Preamp

Denon AVR-4520CI (for front LR).

Power Amp

ATI AT522NC - 2 channel Class D amp. NCore NC-500 modules with linear power supply (not SMPS).

Speakers

Salk SongTowers with RAAL ribbon tweeters.

Center

Salk SongCenter with RAAL ribbon tweeter.

Surrounds

Salk Song Surround I (Hiquphon OW dome tweeters).

Subwoofer

Dual Rythmik F12 Direct Servo Subwoofers.

Speaker Cable

Blue Jeans Cable; "Twelve White", Belden 5000UE.

Interconnects

Blue Jeans Cables and Worlds Best Cables, pretty much everywhere.

Headphones

Stack 1: Raspberry Pi3 w/Hifiberry Digi+ Pro w/SSD -> coax -> Schiit Bifrost 4490 DAC -> Schiit Valhalla amp -> Sennheiser HD600 & HD6XX Stack 2: Raspberry Pi3 w/Hifiberry Digi+ w/SSD -> coax -> Audio-GD DAC19 -> Cavalli Liquid Carbon amp

Racking

Salamander Synergy Twin-20.

Power Cond

Furman Elite-15 PFi. Furman PST-8D.

Tuning and Tweaks

Omnimic V2. REW. Calman.

Other Components

Chromecast ver. II Harmony Elite remote control integrated with Amazon Alexa for voice control.