System Overview

Digital playback system with planar loudspeakers.

Music Preferences

Eclectic.

Room Description

Large, open plan, high cathedral ceiling

Listening Impressions

Coherent, revealing, musical.

Media Storage

GTech and Western Digital hard drives

Components

Digital Source

MacBook 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 256G SSD / 4GB RAM / Snow Leopard 10.6.8 / Amarra Symphony with iRC

Analog Source

Proton FM Tuner

Other Sources

Oppo BDP-93 universal player & Monoprice de-embedder

Signal Processors

Room correction function (developed by Dirac) of Amarra Symphony with iRC

Preamp

Benchmark DAC1 HDR

Power Amp

Parasound Halo A21 Stereo

Speakers

Magneplanar 1.7

Speaker Cable

Kimber 8TC

Interconnects

Mojo Audio Lucent Silver RCA, Belkin Gold USB, Radio Shack HDMI, Amphenol toslink

Power Cables

LAT

Headphones

Sennheiser HD600 with Stefan Art Equinox cable

Racking

Salamander

Power Cond

PS Audio P300 Power Plant

Tuning and Tweaks

Slate or Dynamat-damped-marble bases for electronics, sorbothane, Blu-Tak, wool felt, cork pads, exotic vintage imported bicycle inner tubes, Specialized bicycle pump and ferrite clamps for all wall-wart DC lines.