I know this is nuts but it doesn't even begin to cover my insanity , which includes 3 other AV rooms , but it does reflect 60+ years of continuing improvement . The sound room includes a great deal of sound treatment by GIC and Acoustic Geometry . With the X-tremes . I'd recommend no room treatment or lots of room treatment . My friends at MBL would probably recommend the former but I opted for the latter .I expect to update to the X-tremes II later this year and , if I can sell a kidney , to the new dCS Varese stack next year . Vinyl /turntable ? As soon as the stylus drops you know you are listening to arecorded music . I'll pass . FYI , after 52 years of marriage , my wife accepts this as long as it is confined to my end of our home .
Two pair for the trip-amplified X-tremes ( powered woofer columns )
Gryphon Commander preamp
DCS Vivaldi Apex
" Stack. " including clock,D-to-A , Upsampler/streamer and transport
Aurender W20se
streamer
Theoretica Physica BACCH Grand
DSP and so much more . BACCH processing can make a room disappear .
Shunyata Research Altaira
grounding system ( 17 connections )
Sequerra Model 1 Tuner
See. No. 6 bought more then 40 years ago and still works perfectly . Keptt for old times sake /
Woo Audio Headphone amps .
Separate tube amps for planar and electrostatic headphones
Stromtank S-2500 Quantum MKII
Powers everything but the amps . All digital components are fed by the Stromtank to a Burmester power conditioner . All analogue components are fed from a " star " configuration of multiple Richard Gray power conditioners
DSPeaker Anti-Mode 2.0 DualCore
Two pair operated in mono for bass correction only
Silent Angel Network Switch
Warwick Acoustics Aperio Gold
Best headphones I have ever owned or auditioned .
Stax 9000x
One of many headphones - HiFiman Susvara , Abyss PHI-Tc , Audis CRBN , Focal Utopia , Grade Signature and in-ear headphones mostly from Audis , Stax and Astell&Kerns .
Transparent Audio Reference XL V
most interconnects are Reference XL ; most power cables are Shunyata
QNAP Servers
I have about 400Tb of available storage on multiple QNAP servers in a separate room . All music files are stored on SSDs .The QNAPs are secondary to the files stored on the Aurender W20SE .
Outstanding. I want to hear it. MBL makes my favorite systems. They sound so darn good, and unlike anything else. I've listened for hours to MBL at after hours events at audio shows. The distributor on the east coast (can't remember he and his wife's name) but the 2 of them were awesome. A group of 20 of us just sat for hours listening, and not doing much talking, which is rare at an audio show.
Anyhow, awesome setup. I'd love to hear this setup somewhere, someday. It's on my bucket list.
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