[Mike Dzurko]

This will be the thread where you can tell us details about your ACI setups and post links to your personal audio website or picture URLS. Tell us what other equipment you are using. Tell us about your room, your music, your movies. A lot of people have suggested this over the years. Time to showoff your goods and have fun!

[Eric]

I have the following set up:

Amp:                    Bryston 4BSST
Preamp:               Bryston BP-20
Speakers:            ACI Jaguars with LFM's in cherry
Transport:            Arcam FMJ-23T
DAC:                   Dodson DAC-263
Isolation:             Symposium Svelte Shelf and rollerblocks under  
                           transport and DAC. DH cones and squares under
                           preamp
Power Cords:       TG Audio SLVR on all components
IC:                      Audience AU24
Speaker Cable:    DH Labs Q-10

Usage:                 100 percent music
Room:                 20 x 26 with vaulted ceilings

Music types:         Jazz, Classical, Acoustic, Classic Rock, and some
                           country / blue grass (Lyle Lovett and AKUS)

[cbj]

My setup is used for about 60% movies / 40% music.  The room size is 22 x 15 and is open to another 12 x 10 room.

Main Speakers:   ACI Sapphires in Oak
Center Speaker:  ACI Protégé in Oak
Surround Speakers:  ACI Emeralds  in Oak
Subwoofer:  DIY Dual 15"
Receiver:  Harmon Kardon AVR8000
DVD:  Pioneer 563a
HTPC:  AMD XP based
TV:  Panasonic PT-50LC13  
Rack: DIY Flexy

Updated to add link to gallery: http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=gallery;area=browse;album=472

[Bill-99]

Equipment List:
- Phililps 55PP9701 RPTV
- SIR-T151 HD tuner
- Pioneer Elite DV-59AVi DVD player
- B&K AVR507 receiver
- ACI Panorama speakers L/R front
- ACI Essence speaker center
- ACI Sapphire speakers L/R surround
- Velodyne FSR-12 subwoofer
- Monster HTS-1000 Power Center

Audio Interconnects
- Wireworld SuperNova III TOSLink optical cable, HD tuner to receiver
- DH Labs D-75 digital cable, DVD player to receiver
- DH Labs BL-1 3 pair of interconnects for SACD/DVD-Audio, DVD player to receiver

Speaker Cables
- DH Labs T-14 speaker cable, receiver to Panoramas and Essence
- MITerminator5 speaker cable, receiver to Sapphires
- Monster sub cable, receiver to Velodyne

Video Cables
- DH Labs VX-1 component video cable, HD tuner to receiver
- DH Labs VX-1 component video cable, DVD player to receiver
- Wireworld UltraViolet III component video cable, receiver to RPTV
- cheap composite cable for viewing receiver menu, receiver to RPTV

Usage is about 1/3 music, 1/3 DVDs, and 1/3 HDTV.

[DougM57]

ACI Sapphire III LE's mains
Emerald Center
Polk Dipoles
Polk Sub (need a Force!)
Sony AVD-C70ES Receiver

75% TV and movies, 25% music

Family room open to kitchen 36x15

[thugh]

Center: ACI Essence
L/R Mains: ACI Panoramas
L/R Sides: ACI Panoramas
L/R Rears: ACI Panoramas
Sub: ACI Titan II
All in Cherry.

Processor: Lexicon MC12
Amplifier: Lexicon LX7
Projector: InFocus 7200 on to a 90 inch screen
DVD: Denon 2900

[thedeskE]

Gear


-B&K AVR 307
-JVC 52Z585
-Pioneer DV79

-DTV HD - The Evil Empire

- Essence, Panorama, Sapphire 25th, Omage AV21, HSU

[Mikeyb]

ACI Sapphire 25th Anneversary in Cherry
ACI Essence in Cherry
ACI Titan IILE in Cherry
Phase Technology Teatro Surrounds in White
Denon AVR-3300 A/V receiver
Toshiba SD-2200 DVD
Motorola DC6200 Cable HD tuner
Pioneer Elite Pro 730HDi TV

New room remodel planned that hopefully will include new separates, new universal DVD, new rear surrounds, and if I do it right, a new front projection system in the 100" - 110" range.

[eastberlin]

Center: ACI Veritas
L/R Mains: ACI Panoramas
L/R Sides: ACI Emeralds
L/R Rears: ACI Emeralds
Sub: Titan II

Processor: Tag Mclaren AV32R 7.1
Amplifier: EAD Powermaster 2000
Projector: Sanyo PLV60HT
Power: BPT BP-2 Balanced Power

[DanaA]

My audio equipment includes:


ACI Sapphire Fronts
ACI Essence Center
ACI On-wall Emerald surrounds
Integra 9.4 preamp/processor
Magenta ADE-24 sound processor
Parasound 1205A power amp
Arcam 72T CD player
Denon 1600 DVD/DVD-A player
Hsu VTF-2 Sub
Sennheiser HD 650 Headphones
Perreaux Headphone amp

[Dave918]

Using ACI Emeralds in the bedroom system (2-ch music only):

Cambridge Audio A500s integrated amp
Cambridge Audio A500se CDP
ACI Emerald LE speakers
Chord Chrysalis interconnects
Chord Carnival speaker cables
28" lead shot filled metal speaker stands

-Dave

[reyneman]

Using ACI Jaguars in a 2-channel system

ACI Jaguars
ACI Titan Sub
Musical Fidelity A-300
Sony SCD-777es SACD
SOTA Jewel TT

[Rich Carlson]

Really cool to see these very nice systems.  Here are mine:

Main audio system

Sapphire III LE
Titan subwoofers (2)
Theta Miles CD
Perpetual Technology P1A processor
z-Systems RDQ-1 digital equalizer
Benchmark DAC1
Bryston BP25 preamp
Bryston 3B-SST amp
cables by DH Labs, Monster, Blue Jeans Cable[/list:u]

Home theater system

Sapphire III L/C/R
Emeralds rear L/C/R
Cambridge Soundworks subwoofer (next to change!)
Marantz AV9000 pre/processor
Bryston 3B-ST/PowerPac 60 (front amps)
Hafler P1000 (rear amps)
Panasonic DVD/hard drive recorder[/list:u]

[Dozer]

ACI Jaguars as main.
ACI Titan Subwoofer.
Coda-Continuum Unison 3.1 integrated amp being modded to accept ACI 85Hz highpass filter between pre/power stages.
SCD-333ES CD Player.

For TV/Movies:
ACI Emerald center
Boston rears (came built in to the house, I don't love HT effects enough to bother swapping).


I love ACI.  The Jags made me stop shopping for speakers about two years ago to this date!

I love Coda.  They live right down the street!

[Virgil]

ACI Sapphire 25th Anniv. - Cherry [prototypes- nice discount!]
Quad 11Ls
Pioneer Elite PD-F27 cd player
HK AVR 125 reciever [El cheapo stand-in]

I'd love to find a pair of Emerald's to compare with the Quads.  I'm currently looking for something along the lines of a NAD C-372/Unison Research Unico/Creek or similar for 2-channel uage and a single well cd player.  I'd like to keep the HK for some limited HT use but unfortunately the Sapphires and Quads 11Ls don't play well together.

[DanaA]

Virgil,

You might try out a pair of the on-wall Emeralds.  They sound superb and match up very nicely with the Sapphires.  Look very nice as well.

[Rich Carlson]

Thought it would be fun to see some of these systems, so I thought I'd start by posting a couple of pics of my own.  Click on the link below. See my earlier post for list of components (Bryston BP25 preamp replaced by PS Audio PCA-2 since then).  You can also see some of the Echobusters room treatment.

Stuffed animals on tops of speakers are an important tweak --  most any species will do, but mammals sound better ...

Rich.


http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=gallery;area=browse;album=402

[jparkhur]

Two Channel Listening

Sonic Frontiers SFL 2
Sonic Frontiers SFT 1 CD Transport
Sony DTC 60ES DAT Player
Adcom GDA 600
Bryston 4B ST
Audio Quest Cables
ACI Sapphire III
ACI Titan II (2)

Home Theater

Denon AVR 2800
Denon 900 DVD Player
ACI Sapphire III L/R on top of Titan II's
B&W Center
Inwall B-Flat Coax SR,SL, SBR and SBL
ACI Titan Rear Subwoofer

[Todd A.]

I'm beginning to realize that there are a lot of audio freaks in Minnesota!

My system is used for music only, and consists of:
Martin Logan CLS IIZs on Sound Anchor stands, cut off at 85 HZ and rolling off to stereo ACI Force subwoofers
Innersound ESL 300 MKII
Eastern Electric MiniMax preamp
NAD 1700, used as tuner only
Rega Planar 2 with Grace 707 tonearm and F9E cart.
Acurus phono preamp
Denon DCD 1560 used for transport w'Museatex C-Lock DAC
Various cables

Todd A.
St. Joseph, MN

[Eric]

Just updated my system:

Speakers:  ACI Jaguar / LFM's
Amp:         Bryston 4BSST
Preamp:     SAS 10A Line-stage
Transpt:     Arcam FMJ-23T
DAC:        Dodson DAC-263
DSP:        Camelot Dragon Pro 2 Mk II
SC:          DH labs Q-10
IC:           SAS
PC:          TG Audio SLVR
Isolation:  Symposium Svelte Shelf and rollerballs
Stand:      Atlantis Reference