Room Size

17 x 11 x 7

System Overview

Bybee`s at the start & end of chain have created tremendous depth and spaciousness w/ Stillpoints ERS adding to this; along with the ERS is the 14 Z-Sleeves(a product containing ERS) that add tremendous resolution to the highs; AudioPoints on Sunfire/Butler amps/ACI Force XL sub give sharp definition to an already highly defined and smooth sounding soundstage; Ridge Street cables add incredible realism & balance to the music; ISF-calibrated Sony XBR is the greatest

Music Preferences

smooth jazz, jazz fusion, soft rock, instrumentals, classical-symphony, new age, electronica, progressive rock

Movie Preferences

action, Sci-fi,

Room Description

suspended hardwood floor w/carpet; curtains; open back wall to dining room

Acoustic Treatment

8th Nerve Adapt & Response: Furutech Tuning Panels, Real Traps Soffit plant & subwoofer stands, GIK Trap Tables: ASC Cinema Panels, Cathedral Sound Panels, Acoustic Revive Acoustic Conditioner, Acoustic Revive RR-77 Low Pulse Generator, Acoustic Revive RGC-24 Ground Conitioner

Listening Impressions

For a small room, my system has awesome dynamics with great depth in it's soundstage, probably a combination of all my power conditioning, Bybee's, assorted tweaks and room treatment.

Media Storage

4 Hard Drives = 3.5TB for 15000+ album library

Other Comments

My system is heavily dependent on power conditioning as I believe this to be THE FOUNDATION of any system. I use a heavily modified BPT 2400 watt balanced power conditioner, 27 Bybee's at last count, 14 Z-Sleeves, 13 Alan Maher Power Enhancers on every home circuit, 6 Audio Magic Pulse Gen ZX inside my audio components & home circuit breaker box, Qunatum Disrupters over the transformers of my Butler amps, Acoustic Revive RGC-24 ground for my Sunfire processor along with a Shakti Stone over it's transformer. My room is a testiment to their accumulative effects.

Components

DVD or LaserDisc Player

Sony DVP-NS700P progressive-scan DVD ; HTPC-645 w/Theater-Tec

Satellite or Cable

12' Paraclipse C-band dish w/ analog & digital & mpeg & high definition: DirecTv HD DVR

Video Display

Sony 36XBR400 HD-ready 4:3 TV / ISF-calibrated twice by Jim Doolittle

Digital Source

Empirical Off-Ramp 3 USB transport w/Paul Hynes SR3-12 power supply & Locus Design Nucleus USB cable accessing a 15,000+ album HTPC library; Motorola 4DTV analog/digital C-band satellite receiver; DirecTv HD DVR

Analog Source

none

Signal Processors

MHDT Havana tube DAC modded w/Vitamin Q bypass output caps & Hi-Fi silver fuse; HD-200 HD decoder

Preamp

Sunfire Theater Grand 4 processor

Power Amp

2 Butler Audio 3150 tube hybrid amps; 6 channels total 150 wpc @ 8ohms

Speakers

Odyssey Audio Lorelei`s

Center

Usher X-616 front & rear center channel speakers

Surrounds

Odyssey Audio Lorelei's

Subwoofer

ACI Force XL

Speaker Cable

Ridge Street Audio Poiema!!! for the front 3; Goertz Serpents cables for the rear 3; River Cable Starflex subwoofer cable

Interconnects

Ridge Street Audio Poiema!!! IC`s for the amps; Locus Design Nucleus USB cable & Crystal Cable Digit for the Off-Ramp 3; KCI gold Silkworms IC's for the Havana Dac

Power Cables

BPT Litz (BPT); VHAudio Flavor 4 w/gold Oyaide (UberBuss); Kubela-Sosna Emotion (2 Butler amps); custom Bolder Cable Bybee Super Effect Ultra AC Cord(Sunfire processor); Virtual Dynamics Testament (HTPC), Audio Magic Xtreme (MHDT Havana)

Headphones

none

Racking

Sanus CF-6 Audio rack; Sanus CF-3 video rack; BPT BP2.5 Ultra balanced power conditioner; Quantum Symphony Pro; 11 standard Z-Sleeves & 5 Ultra Z-Sleeves from Zcable; 23 system Bybee's!!!

Tuning and Tweaks

BPT has been modified w/ high current noise filter, Bybee`s, silver wiring, Hubbels, DynamiCaps, L-9 Litz PC w/Bolder Bybee Ultra IEC adapter; BPT is coupled with Mapleshade Surefoot cones to 2

Other Components

I have a dedicted circuit with a Furutech gold plated 20A dupex that feds my whole system. from this dedicate outlet is plugged a custom gold Oyaide/Furutech UberBuss to which is solely plugged a heavily modified BPT 2400 watt balanced power conditioner; 27 Bybee's at last count; 14 Z-Sleeves that are placed on power cords, digital, IC, SC; 13 Alan Maher Power Enhancers on every home circuit; 6 Audio Magic Pulse Gen ZX inside my audio components & home circuit breaker box; Quantum Disrupters over the transformers of my Butler amps; Acoustic Revive RGC-24 ground for my Sunfire processor along with a Shakti Stone over it's transformer.