Room Size

got to measure it yet

System Overview

Works really good ;-)

Music Preferences

Anything that moves or touches me in some way but NOTgenerally Rap, Opera, top40 etc. Really like good Trance, Techno & electro, DeeepHouse:-) funky Jazzy UP type stuff and also some New Age and Folkies like Maureen Mcgovern and Afro-Celt Sound System

Movie Preferences

Anything that moves or touches me in some way but generally NOT Rap, Opera, top40 etc. Really like good Trance, Techno & electro, DeeepHouse:-) funky Jazzy UP type stuff and also some New Age and Folkies like Maureen Mcgovern and Afro-Celt Sound System

Room Description

Vaulted ceiling 8-12ft, single level Brick house.

Components

DVD or LaserDisc Player

Omni DV5000 Progressive Pal &Ntsc and DVDAudio. cheap as chips chinese player but has a great pal or ntsc progressive picture , i think its called a Sampo in the states

Satellite or Cable

Satellite Tv decoder is a Nokia , great picture , its PAL see ;-))

Video Display

Sanyo Z1 widescreen LCD projector on an 8 ft wide screen, Its very good and a screaming bargain at the price . Also a little portable34cm TV to watch Tv , news etc on. It sits on the coffee table so its not so small really

Digital Source

Phillips CDR765 (modified/ damped) as CD transport, the player deck of this dual deck player /burner is a surprisingly good transport. As good as my old EAD T1000 transport was and a lot more versatile, its got 2 parallel spdif ouputs which is very h

Analog Source

An Old Marantz ST300 Fm tuner,

Signal Processors

The Sony TAE-9000ES 6 ch digital AV preamp does all i need for realistic home theater. I dont even use the Eqs in the Sony TAE( except for FM radio a bit)

Preamp

1. Sony TAP-9000ES 6 ch. analog preamp used for Redbook CD and DVDA . Sony brought this analog preamp out for their line of multichannel ES Sacd players. It is VERY transparent and as pure as . 2.Sony TAE-9000ES 6 ch. Digital AV Pre-amp (v 2.5

Power Amp

Ayre V3:2x100w@8ohms ( used for front 2 chs.) Sony TAN-9000ES 5 ch power amp used on the 2 rear chs and the 6 Aura Bass Shakers that are bolted to two couches! (The Aura's are good (downrightscary) for Movie LF effects only-not good for music)

Speakers

1pr Von Schweikert VR4.5s (6ohms ) on the front 2 chs. No center ch needed here,The VR4.5 image superbly .They throw a wide and deep SS . They have a mid band like an Electrostat only with Balls,Bass and Highs 1pr Origin Ribbon T/L monitors on the rear

Subwoofer

Not needed here , the Von Schweikert VR4.5 are flat down to 20hz :-). the rear speakers are good for 30

Speaker Cable

Harmonic Technology Pro11 ,2 pairs biwired on the Vr4.5s. Homemade CAt5E on the rear 2 chs.

Interconnects

Diy26ga Fine silver i/cs with Eichmann bullets, AudioNote ANS Silver Rca ics Van Den Hul First Ultimate Rca ics MIT Digital Referance 75 ohm digital ic Copycatcables WPC2 75 ohm digital cables x2

Power Cables

Harmonic Technology Pro11 Ac cables x2, NBS King Serpent Ac on the Ps Audio P300 ac regenerator

Headphones

Senheiser HD580

Racking

PS Audio PP300 with fan and multiwave 1 supplies clean power to the two preamps,transport and Mensa Dac. The projector is improved on it too but that is a bit too much for the P300 with the other gear on, it gets a bit too hot after an hour or so , i need

Tuning and Tweaks

Magnetic floating isolation feet under the CD transport, Combak Harmonix RFS66 tuning feet under sony pre amp. Vibrapods under Mid/Twtr modules on the Vr4.5 Spikes under bass modules onto the concrete slab floor RoomTunes 'Corner tunes accoustic trea