Room Size

13x9x10

System Overview

I'm very happy with my system. And pround of my handy work with all the DIY I did especially my firt pair of DIY Single Driver speaker of which sound better than what I expected. Not perfect. The high could have been more airy like. And of cause they don't play very loud like bigger speaker but loud enough for my taste and room. Still the strong side is the the system have beautiful mid band, thing that you get from SET and Single driver speaker without crossover. It got what I would call the completeness to the sound. It won't make you go wow! but than it would pull you in to the music. It all about music to me and this syetem is doing a great job of letting the music out in a very intimate way.

Music Preferences

Mostly pop, rock, electronic/trip-hop, a bit of jazz, a bit of rap and etc.

Room Description

In NYC space is pricy. This room served me as 1/3 bedroom, 1/3 photo darkroom, 1/3 audio room. Too bad I ain't rich.

Components

Digital Source

Sony SCD-CE775. Again cheap but excellent SACD/CD changer. Sound great for a peanut price! Maybe I will upgrade to a better player someday. The only mod I did was bias the output op-amp to class A, got the idea from the people at Audio Asylum.

Analog Source

Rega Planar 2. I upgraded the tonearm and out put wire to Cardas wires. With Sumiko Blue Point Special.

Other Sources

Sansui TU-317 tuner, cheap off ebay and sound pretty good.A 67' Akai M8 Reel to Reel player. Pure tube baby!!! Oh! and a 1937 Philco tube radio. I built a tubed AM tranmister so I could play my music through it. Beautiful and fun to listen too.

Signal Processors

None.

Preamp

Audio Note M1 Phono I did some parts upgrade including Dual mono Gray Hill 24 steps volume controls, Caddock resistors, Jensen PIO Cap, Kimber Kable hook-up wires, FRED type briged rectifier, NOS Mullard 4004 (12AU7)on out put stage, Ei 12AU7in phono

Power Amp

Excellent and beautiful but no longer available Welborne Lab Apollo 1.5 Monobloc. I got them in kit form. With KR 842 VHD out put tube, NOS coin base GE 6EA7. With 18w/ch of pure SET! These ain't your father SET!

Speakers

My DIY Fostex 167E in tall TQWT. This is the cheapest component in my system. I did a few mod to the 167E. With Piezo tweeter fire backward as a supertweeter. Nothing fancy here. Just a cheap but excellent sounding Single Driver system. They sound lik

Subwoofer

None.

Speaker Cable

Homemade

Interconnects

Homemade

Power Cables

12ga I got from Home Depot with Wattgate 320 plugs. Oh! Yeah! and the PS Audio Power Plant 600 feeding all components.

Headphones

Grado SR60 driven by the all tube internal amp of the Akai M8 Reel to Reel.

Racking

All home made. Amp rested on 18sqx2 patio concrete blocks which then rested on bicycle inner tube. CDP and TT rested on cut in half Penn balls than rested 18x18 granite slap which rested on bicycle inner tube. Pre rested on strecthed fishing line MDF pl