Room Size

24X26X24 cathedral

System Overview

Very revealing, live-sounding system with relatively small sweet-spot, but also room-filling sound. Not SS sounding. No sibilance. Very extended and dynamics to knock you out of the chair. Very immersive and spacious sound.

Music Preferences

Jazz, Newer classical and orchestral, some country and bluegrass, piano, vocalists, 70's rock (Led Zeppelin, the Doors etc..), acoustic guitar

Room Description

Some acoustic treatments: 6 bass traps, corner absorbers and some Sonex on side walls. Listening position is short of midway.

Components

Digital Source

Sony DVP-S7700 with Turbomod, Jensen Cap and Superclock2 and Perpetual Technologies P-3A DAC with Turbomod and Superclock2, custom power supply for P-3A

Analog Source

None

Other Sources

Mistubishi VCR, Fanfare FT-1A tuner

Signal Processors

Proceed AVP, Perpetual P-3A

Preamp

Proceed AVP for HT and modified Mark Levinson 38 for 2-channel

Power Amp

Modded ADCOM GFA-585 for 2-channel, Backup Parasound JC-1 monoblocks, CODA 10.5, Coda 10 for HT

Speakers

KEF Reference 104/2 w/my own mods or Soundline SL2's

Subwoofer

Velodyne 1500R w/my own mods

Speaker Cable

Empirical Audio Clarity7 6 and 8 footers depending on what's on loan

Interconnects

Empirical Audio 1m Holophonic-PC Silver Bullet-Plugs and 1.0m Bitmeister digital IC. Holophonic-XPC for the JC-1's.

Power Cables

Empirical Audio Grand Slam for 2-channel power amps and Magnum2 for HT amps

Headphones

No stinking Headphones, only stereo

Racking

Solid granite shelves with steel angle-iron epoxied on the backs and supported by solid wood rack coupled to building foundation and footings. No power conditioning, just dedicated 20-amp circuits using short custom wiring in plastic conduit.

Tuning and Tweaks

Acme 20-amp silver-plated cryoed outlets to mate with silver-plated plugs