Systems

Happy Music System...., a Two-channel Audio System by Robert C. Schult

Room Size
20'Dx12.5'Wx7.5'H
System Overview
Very transparent. Imaging and sound staging takes you to the event. Very convincing. Very easy to forget about the play back gear and just enjoy the music.
Music Preferences
Chamber, Baroque, Pop Rock, Jazz, Slam Symphony and Death Folk. (Genre/Selections): I enjoy most genres but have a particular fondness for acoustically recorded material such as smaller chamber works. My favorite instruments to listen to are cello, v
Components
Digital Source
Highly Modified Marantz CD-63 SE
Analog Source
RSAD Custom Turntable and Arm. Arm is fitted with a Sumiko BPS rebuilt by Van Den Hul with further mods applied by me. Phono amps are Ridge Street Audio custom built mono block units(those are the thingys you see in some of the pictures in Ridge Str
Preamp
None...I've never heard a preamplifier I couldn't hear. If carefully done, less is way more…says me anyway.
Power Amp
Highly Modified GTA SE-40 Mono Blocks. JD302 Modified, Hardwired and Rebuilt as Mono Blocks. Counterpoint SA-220 Modified. Adcom 545 MkII Modified and Rebuilt as Mono Blocks. Two Pass Aleph 3 amps used as Mono Blocks...mods to come
Speakers
RSAD Sason Ltd Loudspeaker. North Creek Rhythm/Kevlar. Modified & Rebuilt Energy C-2. Reference 3A MM De Capo i...modded .
Speaker Cable
Poiema!!! and Poiema!!! Signature, Midnight Silver Edition Gen.II, Symphonia Master
Interconnects
Poiema!!! Signature
Power Cables
Poiema!!! Signature
Racking
Misc. Custom Made.
Tuning and Tweaks
Cable Risers, Misc. Room Treatment, Dedicated Cryo'd 220 Lines Split For 120 Balanced AC For Mono Block Amps and Mono Block Phono Stages, Dedicated 120 Cryo'd line for Front End Electronics. Demagnitized Brown Peanut M&Ms pointing South For Resonance Tuni