Room Size

about 15'x15' with balcony railing off to the left opening over my kitchen...

System Overview

my second good system that I've owned. bryston integrated amp with dac, tascam dvd/cd player, dynaudio multi driver speakers and dynaudio sub...

Music Preferences

usually classic rock, rush, queen, ac/dc, pink floyd, yes, van morrison, nick drake, the who. with some more modern artists John mayer. some classical and blues

Room Description

wall behind stereo, balcony railing off to the left opening over my kitchen, patio door with blinds and big couch to the right, wall about 4' behind me with old upright piano. sub is located near right speaker, but NOT in the corner.

Acoustic Treatment

sometimes I drape a towel or blanket (sophisticated eh?) over the balcony railing to absorb some of the reflections from the left tweeter.

Listening Impressions

my speakers are about 7' apart and toed in, pointing kinda past my ears, not directly at my ears. I try to sit about 7' from each speaker

Media Storage

two atlantic brand particle board storage units. 72" x 40"w one for dvd/bray and the other for cd.

Components

Digital Source

tascam DV-D01U dvd/cd using optical out

Analog Source

n/a

Other Sources

samsung bluray, sharp tv (passing samsung)

Signal Processors

dbx crossover for sub. NOT using dbx for high pass frequencies due to high frequency hiss from dbx. not sure if I just set it up wrong, but is better than using sub's crossover

Preamp

Bryston B100's preamp section.

Power Amp

sometimes bryston b100's power amp section (100 wpc @ 8), sometimes my Qinpu A6000 mkII 16.5 wpc tube amp

Speakers

Dynaudio Audience 72se (special edition contains drivers from dynaudio's higher Contour line of speakers. compared with another smaller "se" model and the regular, the se model had more image focus and instrument placement.

Subwoofer

Dyaudio 500 sub (I've mistakenly called it the 300 because its 300w at 8 ohms)

Speaker Cable

esoteric accupath speaker cables circa 1990

Interconnects

mostly generic

Power Cables

stock

Headphones

Sony mdr-7506. have several pairs and use to use v6 model years ago

Racking

n/a

Power Cond

furman elite 15 power factor

Tuning and Tweaks

n/a