Room Size

23 x 14.5 x 8.5

System Overview

Straddling dynamics and smoothness, detail and musicality. Good soundstage for the room.

Music Preferences

Improve rock (Grateful Dead, Phish), Electronica (mainly ambient and groove related), bluegrass & acoustic. Getting into Jazz as I get older. Basically very open - revolving around instrumentation as opposed to vocal but not opposed to it by any means.... But really beginning to like female (and male) vocal since the system is coming together.

Room Description

With the best Wife Appreciation Factor in the world, this is our main living room that has become our dedicated 2-ch listening environment.

Acoustic Treatment

GIK Tri-traps floor to ceiling in front wall corners. GIK 242's @ first reflection. 2" panels and 244 w/ flex range limiter covering windows on front wall between speakers. 3 244's on rear wall, as well as a few other panels here and there. All just via a process of listening tests.

Components

Digital Source

PS Audio PWT Transport > Lampizator level 4 gen 4

Other Sources

Bolder modded Squeezebox touch and Bolder super deluxe psu w/ Bybee music rails AND Bybee quantum purifiers.

Preamp

Vinnie Rossi LIO DHT PRE

Power Amp

Wells Audio Innamorata Signature amp

Speakers

Daedalus Argos V2

Speaker Cable

Triode Wire Labs American Speaker Cables

Interconnects

DanaCable Diamond Reference Wywire digi cable. HiDiamond aes/ebu digi cable

Power Cables

ALL Triode Wire Labs... 7+ on the BUSS, Furman, Wells amp and preamp. Triode Wire 8+ on Boulder PSU of the Squeezebox Touch, and the new Digital PC on the PWT Transport, and another 8+ on the DAC.

Racking

Steve Blinn Extra wide and 21" low rack w/ 2" maple shelves.

Power Cond

custom PI Audio/Triode Wire Labs Uber BUSS. Furman SPR 20i voltage regulator. Configuration: Uber to the wall. amp and Furman in the Uber. everything else in the Furman.

Tuning and Tweaks

Daedalus Isolation Devices, Herbies Audio Labs Tinderfoot footers and lots of room treatments.