Systems

Pezacolypse quad amped SET , a Two-channel Audio System by Pez

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Room Size
15x22x8
System Overview
Dedicated sound proofed room. Decoupled ceiling, lots and lots of insulation, double drywall and green glue. Speakers are completely passive crossover free. System is quad-amped. That's right, I said QUAD-AMPED
Music Preferences
Alternative, rock, international, and everything else that is good.
Room Description
Dedicated sound proofed room. Decoupled ceiling, lots and lots of insulation, double drywall and green glue. Heavily treated with GIK acoustics and 8th nerve room treatments.
Acoustic Treatment
GIK Accoustic panels. 244 soundpanels, Monster bass traps, Grid diffusers for sidewalls, bass pillars x2, and Elite bass pillar, and 6 Scopus traps. 8th nerve seam treatments finishes off the setup.
Media Storage
Apple iMac 27" with several terabytes of external storage.
Other Comments
The result of many years of DIY, finding deals and just biting the bullet for components that punch well above their class! I am very pleased with this setup and plan only minor upgrades in the foreseeable future.
Components
Digital Source
Modified Logitech Squeezebox with Bolder power supply with by bee music rails. Wired so it's digital out to the DCX
Signal Processors
DCX 24/96 feeding a DBX 223XL for bass section.
Power Amp
Simple SE projects on mid and treble duty. See: http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=73713.0 QSC DCA 1222 for woofer duty, QSC DCA3422 for subs.
Speakers
VMPS RM40s with no passive crossover parts whatsoever.
Subwoofer
Two VMPS large Subs.
Speaker Cable
Kimber special edition KKSV2 cables, similar to the kimber select, but better
Interconnects
Bolder Nitros for all IC cabling
Power Cables
Bolder type 2s throughout.
Headphones
Beyerdynamics DT880s modded with silver/teflon cabling. Only headphone amp I have is a Fiio E5.
Tuning and Tweaks
Herbies footers on source, dcx, and woofer amp, cork/rubber for tube amps. Herbies titanium C ring tube dampers for signal and power tubes. WBT interconnects for amp and DCX. AMR Gold Fuses for the tube amps.