System Overview

Room Description

Right trapezoidal dining room open to living room and entry.

Listening Impressions

Consistently impressive.

Media Storage

Analog: Ikea Expedit 4x2 Digital: FLAC on 8TB SHR-2 RAID array Synology DS918+

Components

Digital Source

Volumio on a 2GB Raspberry Pi4

Analog Source

Opera Consonance LP-2.0 turntable / Moerch UP-4 tonearm / Grado Reference Sonata 2 cartridge / Pro-Ject Phono Box RS phono preamp

Signal Processors

Topping DX7s DAC / headphone amp

Preamp

YS Audio Audio Experience Balanced A2

Power Amp

DIY Bang & Olufsen 1200AS1 ICEpower monoblocks and Tube Fantasy 300b PSET monoblocks

Speakers

Von Schweikert VR-4 Gen III HSE

Speaker Cable

DIY 12AWG Teflon insulated solid core Neotech UPOCC "anticables" with Furez copper spades and bananas

Interconnects

1, 3 and 4 meter Liberty Cables Z500 RCA and XLR

Power Cables

TrippLite 14AWG

Headphones

Audeze LCD-3

Racking

DIY 80/20 extruded aluminum frame w/maple butcher block shelves

Power Cond

Panamax M8-HT-PRO

Tuning and Tweaks

Tube rolling and upgraded coupling capacitors on my A2 preamp