System Overview

2 channel music system only.

Music Preferences

Open floor plan, system in one end, listening distance 11', speaker front baffle 5' from back wall.

Room Description

Minimal treatments, damped ceiling corners, 1st reflection points treated with wall hangings, carpet.

Listening Impressions

2.5" HDD internal to server. Sonore Custom server running stripped down Vortexbox/MPD. Internal LiFePO4 battery supply with ultra low noise discretely regulated supply rail for SOtM USB card.

Other Comments

DIY Twisted Pear Audio Buffalo/Legato 3 DAC build with Sonore USB interface, Salas shunt regulators, Clarity MR coupling caps (4) and custom parts selection. Custom chassis with Stillpoints Ultra Mini footers.

Components

Preamp

DIY Ncore 400 stereo amp build, custom wired with Cardas Litz wire, cardas XLR jacks, Cardas Rhodium plate speaker posts, Furutech Rhodium IEC, Hi Fi Tuning Supreme fuses.

Power Amp

Focus Audio FS-888 Signature with cap mods

Subwoofer

Nordost Frey

Speaker Cable

Nordost Frey, balanced, Nordost Blue Heaven USB

Interconnects

DIY

Headphones

DIY custom rack with maple uprights, birch ply shelf supports, and acrylic shelves on sorbothane isolators.

Racking

DIY parallel AC conditioner with Bybee

Power Cond

Symposium Svelte shelf under server, Finite Elemente amp platform, various proprietary RF damping methods