Room Size

18' x 17' w/cathedral ceiling

System Overview

Most of this has not changed much in the last 3+ decades.

Music Preferences

Rock and Roll - Beach Boys, Beatles, Buddy Holly, Judy Collins, Moody Blues, Budgie, Association, Simon & Garfunkel, Badfinger, Donovan, Status Quo, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Leo Kottke, Cream, et cetra. Classical - (orchestral, choral, pipe organ) Bach, Beethoven, Harry Partch, Berlioz, Saint-Saens, Mozart, Widor, Wagner, Vaughan Williams, Gregorian Chant, Ives, Rossini, et very cetra.

Room Description

18" by 17" sunroom with a peaked 45 degree ceiling with lots of glass on all four sides, sticking out from the house and elevated 8 feet from the ground. LOTS of sunlight!

Acoustic Treatment

On edge 4'x8' OSB covered with Audimute in rear corners at 45 degrees to reduce bass resonance.

Listening Impressions

State of the art, circa 1975.

Media Storage

Shelves and boxes.

Other Comments

Everything is a work in progress.

Components

Digital Source

Consonance CD player

Analog Source

B&O 4002. As of Feb. 2016, a Sound Design SMMC20CL+ cartridge

Signal Processors

KMAL Record Cleaning Machine and Decca Cleaning Brush

Preamp

Rogue 66 Magnum tube w/remote + a Graham Slee Jazz Phono stage to replace an ARC SP-4 a few years ago

Power Amp

Linear Research M-60 (6550 push-pull based monoblocks)

Speakers

Bozak Concert Grands replaced my ARC Tympani T-1Ds just over a decade ago.

Subwoofer

Uh? 8 - 12" B-199 woofers aren't already enough?!?! The 24" Hartley-Luth was retired to the garage when the Bozaks arrived.

Speaker Cable

Circa 1970's

Interconnects

Circa 1980's

Power Cables

Circa 1970's

Racking

Karl Storz Endoscope Documentation Smartkart 9550 SK

Power Cond

Computer quality surge and RFI power strip + whole house surge protector.

Tuning and Tweaks

4'x8' OSB on edge at 45 degrees (bisects the 90 degree corner) with the 4' edge on the floor in the right and left rear corners to reduce the standing waves in my almost square room.

Other Components

Wild and Shure microscopes to examine styli.