Room Size

12'6

System Overview

Got back into audio after years away when I retired in 2011. Been tweaking and upgrading ever since; current system was pretty much all added in the fall of 2020.

Music Preferences

Piano jazz, old folk and rock that I remember from my youth, the classical potboilers that everybody likes. Lately I've been listening to a lot of Philip Glass.

Room Description

Wood floors, 5/8" gypboard walls, an 8' x 8' sliding glass door on one side

Acoustic Treatment

Sound absorbtion added to front wall, with bass traps in various corners; all homebuilt.

Components

Digital Source

exaSound Sigma streamer and e32 Mk II DAC

Analog Source

Rega RP-3 turntable with RB1000 tone arm, Neo TT-PSU, Apheta II cart Ares Magnum phono preamp with NOS Telefunken tubes

Preamp

Rogue Audio RP-9

Power Amp

Vandersteen M5-HPA monoblocks

Speakers

Vandersteen Quatro Wood

Speaker Cable

Audioquest Firebird and Thunderbird biwire

Interconnects

Audioquest and Kimber

Power Cables

Audioquest Blizzard

Racking

Homebuilt fir and solid birch plywood

Power Cond

Audioquest Niagara 3000

Other Components

Synology DS218+ NAS Uptone Audio Ether Regen