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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 .
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Room Details

Dimensions: 28’ × 17’  Large
Ceiling: 14’


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    • MBL X-Tremes
    speaker system
    • MBL 9008A amps
    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 .

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Holy crap never seen an all MBL system out in the wild! I'd love to hear those some day I can imagine how awesome and spacious they sound.

jond