Room Details

Dimensions: 18’ × 12’  Medium
Ceiling: 14’


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    • Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs Ultradeck + Master Tracker Cartridge
    • Audio Envy Phono Deluxe Interconnect
    • Sansui TU-9900
    • Bluesound Node
    With linear power supply upgrade
    • Wiim Mini
    • Audiolab 6000CDT
    • Denafrips Venus 2
    • Rogue Audio RP-1
    • Audio Envy Studio Prestige Interconnects
    Full loom.
    • Bottlehead Crack
    With speedball, capacitor, and volume pot upgrades
    • Sennheiser HD-650
    • B and K ST-140
    • Harbeth P3ESR 40th Anniversary
    Blue Jeans Cable 10 AWG
    • PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium HP Power Amp
    Radiotechnique 12au7 gain tubes
    Sylvania 12au7 driver tubes
    KT150 power tubes
    • Ohm Acoustics Walsh Tall 3000
    Blue Jeans Cable 12 AWG

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Thanks, all!  Sorry, I missed the comment notifications!

@mapman, yes, these floors are lively!  100 year old brick 6-flat with bouncy joists and you're looking at what I believe was originally the subfloor.  I fantasize about soundproofing, but cheaper just to pull the trigger on a house, I think.  Incidentally, your many posts over the years helped to steer me towards the Ohms - thank you!

@2psyop, thanks!  I try to do the best I can in a price range that would have seemed crazy to me 20 years ago, and stay out of the price range that still seems crazy to me now.  I love the Ohms - I'm three years in and can confirm that every good thing you read in the threads is true.  In my current living space they're a bit like a Ferrari on a go-cart track, but they make me happy.  Highly recommended!

@livinon2wheels, the right angle set up works pretty well for me.  One zone physically, two zones psychologically, both driven off the Rogue RP-1.  Couch for the TV with P3ESRs (because I'm in a condo with downstairs neighbors and watch mostly at night), recliner for dedicated listening with the Ohms.  I had to get creative with the floorpan limitations.  I'm actually using the B&K for the P3ESRs, and the PrimaLuna for the Ohms - I know the Ohms are supposed to benefit from solid state damping factor and grip, but I already had the PrimaLuna with KT150 power tubes and was pretty pleased with the pairing.  (And Evan at Ohm advised me that it should work well when I was originally shopping.)  I do flip the amps now and then for a much punchier and livelier sound on the Ohms (sounds great on The Yes Album), but then the cheap excitement wears off and my tinnitus and I start to miss the tubes.  I'm sure there's a perfect goldilocks solid state amp for me, and when I want to make myself crazy I scour the forums and reviews for it.  Just last weekend I talked myself out of auditioning Aragon Palladium II Monoblocks, mostly because 35 years of Class A heat can't have teed them up for anything good in the next few years...

coccyx