Room Size

15.7' x 14.5' x 8'

System Overview

Music Preferences

Large diversity

Acoustic Treatment

2" ATS Acoustics panels on wall behind speakers 4" panels in the corners 2" panels to the sides of speakers

Media Storage

All music in AIFF format on a 3.5" Oyen Digital FireWire drive powered PI Audio Battery Buss, connected to Mac Mini with Most Beautiful Sound 800-800 Firewire Cable (power connection eliminated on cable). The internal drive on the Mac Mini is a 64 Gb solid state drive running a clean install of OS 10.6.x modified by Mach2Music. Using Audirvana Plus as music player software launched by Mach2Music script.

Components

Digital Source

Mac Mini (Mach2Music modified; Battery power modified by PI Audio); Audirvana Plus

Other Sources

Tranquility Signature Edition DAC with all current highest level (2014) upgrades including cryo treatment. Using dB Audio Essential Signature Edition USB cable.

Preamp

Red Wine Audio Isabella Pre-amp with Cryoset Electro Harmonix 6H30Pi EB Gold Pin matched tubes (new production)

Power Amp

Red Wine Audio Liliana monoblocks with Telefunken 6922 NOS tubes (one per channel)

Speakers

Harbeth 30.1 Anniversary Edition monitors

Speaker Cable

Triode Wire Labs American Speaker Cables; 6 ft. pair with Cardas copper spades

Interconnects

Reality Cables (RCA) DAC to Pre-amp and Pre-amp to Mono Amps; amps and pre-amp run on battery power half the time

Power Cables

Reality Cables power cable on DAC, Pre-Amp power supply, and Mono Amps; PI Audio BatteryBUSS for Mach2 Mac Mini and hard drive;

Headphones

Senheisser HD650; Beyerdynamic 880 (32 Ohm); headphone system is separate and evolving

Power Cond

PI Audio CustomBuss for the Pre-Amp and Amps; CustomBuss and DAC plugged into ZeroSurge with 8 isolated outlets (no apparent affect on sound)

Tuning and Tweaks

Mach2Mini mods on Mac Mini; PI Audio BatteryBUSS for MacMini and Oyen Digital hard drive

Other Components

Mac Mini connected to PI Audio BatteryBUSS DAC connected directly to surge protector (no A/C filtration) Installed a cryo-treated, hospital grade outlet (but didn't hear much difference) CTEK 7002 charger on battery