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 .
Great choices there. I use the MBL 101mk2 speakers, and the only speakers I would trade them for are the X-tremes. It's hard to believe what they can do. If I may, I'd like to suggest your next upgrade. I replaced my pair of 9007 amps with a single, stereo Soulution 711 and that was the most beneficial improvement I've made in many years. Although I worried about losing the raw power of the 9007s, that was never an issue. Also, I use a pair of class-D amps to power the integral subs, which takes a lot of load off the main amp. A pair of Soulution 701 monos would alleviate any worry about power limits.
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