Room Size

20X14X8

System Overview

It will make you weep with Dead Can Dance or make you bounce around to Godsmack! Plenty of toe tapping and knee drumming! Wide and deep soundstage with sound between, beyond, behind and all around the speakers. The little speakers disapear quite nicely.

Music Preferences

Groove Armada: Lovebox, Hooverphonic, Yello, Sissor Sisters, Stevie Ray, Bonnie R., Zep, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, RCA Shaded Dog collection...too numerous to list. Lots of Jazz old and new. See comment below:

Room Description

Front wall has a pair of MGIIB against the front wall behind the 2 Sapphires XLs, Speakers are 7 feet apart and set out 27 inches. Toe in about 1.5 inches...sweet spot 9 feet back. We have a Rosewood Yamaha Clavinova on the left wall near the speaker. It's a full-bore multitrack recorder for stage shows. Beautiful curved back with Yamaha in white printed on it...but that's against the wall. Typical formal living room with nice sofa against the rear wall and end tables with lamps, Hekman Queen Ann cocktail table between 2 low back plush living room comfy chairs...one which I can move quickly into my sweet spot! The floor is fully carpeted and we now have no drapes!

Components

Digital Source

Metronome tubed (2-6922)Signature DAC with T-2 Signature Transport.

Analog Source

Basis 2001, Graham 2.2 AJ Van den Hul Frogged MC 10 Special for me and Benz Ruby 3H, Osiris turntable stand. New PS Audio GCPH, AcousTech PH-1

Other Sources

Kyocera cassette player...a goody!

Signal Processors

Quantuum

Preamp

Hovland HP100 in Gold, no freaking remote!

Power Amp

PS Audio HCA-2 tweaked, Clayton Audio S-40 pure Class A.

Speakers

New: ACI Rosewood Sapphire XLs on 24" Osiris stands Old: Merlin VSM-Ms Ruby Heart

Subwoofer

ACI Rosewood Force XL

Speaker Cable

DH Labs Q-10 bi-wired, but tied together at the speaker terminals.

Interconnects

DH Labs Revelations to the amps, Air Matrix and BL-1 to to the Force XL.

Power Cables

DH Labs PowerPlus!

Headphones

Stax Omegas, Senn 650s not used anymore in this system. The 650s are used with my iRiver and Zen Micro.

Racking

Home built oak stand, PS Audio 300, DH labs Tech 8 Opus Blue AC extender, PS Audio Utlimate Outlet to amps.

Tuning and Tweaks

Granite slabs under amps, and PS 300, 3 Vibrapod balls in cups under amp.