Over 40 years of assembling systems. I have finally achieved what I’ve desired since the start. This system is amazing at what it can do, the energy that it produces, the soundstage is wide, deep and tall, from the smallest detail to the tight solid bass, every note is detailed with texture. The silence within the music is mind blowing, never imagined how black the background could be to reveal every little nuance in the recording. It’s been a fun ride to this point and now I can listen to the music as well as the system.
The room was built for such a system. The walls are over one foot thick with heavy insulation in between them. Double 2”x6” walls on the interior and exterior of the room. I doubled up two sheets of 5/8” drywall that is screwed and glued to the wall studs. The subfloor is raised off of the main floor 1 1/2” and has a dense foam padding between the riser boards and the 3/4” plywood. I left a one inch gap between the floor and the walls so the floor does not make any contact with the walls. There is one window in the room but I have two windows in place, one in the interior wall and one in the exterior wall, this helps keep out outside noise. The walls are treated with rugs and curtains. I installed a sub panel in which I have four dedicated circuits but I’m only using two at the moment. The Powercell SX and the Powercell 10 se mkll are plugged into their own Synergistic Research purple duplex that are on their own circuits. All fed by 10 gauge wiring with one of the four circuits being fed by an 8 gauge wire, just in case I decide to get a little crazy with the power requirements.
A little about the system setup. I tried taking advantage of the Synergistic Research SRX and Galileo Discovery power cables so that every piece would benefit from them. The Powercell SX(w/the SRX power cable) feeds the cd player, preamp and dvd player and the Powercell 10 se mkll(has the Galileo Discovery power cable feeding it) feeds the amps. This setup yields the best performance I’ve heard from the system. I am a firm believer of Synergistic Research products and have always had great success with every product of theirs that I’ve installed. I credit the SR products for giving me the blackest background noise.
It’s a dream system that I love to listen to. I feel there are no weaknesses to this system and I can easily see myself listening to this system for a long time to come.
