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The room is in the basement, size about 13 x 21 x 8, dedicated.

Love the sound of the Mastersound/Triangle combo, wife says it has "soul". Huge soundstage and lots of dynamics too, thanks to bi-amping, and insertion of Zero Autoformers improved a lot bass control and definition.

Found out most of my fun comes from vinyl, so I recently added a 2nd tonearm to the HRX with a custom armboard, I know a turntable with provision for multiple arm mounting would be better, but for the time being this will do.

The high compliance VdH Colibri is on the low mass JMW 12.6, and is amplified by the Lehmann Silver Cube into a line input of the HP100, the low compliance Phase Tech P3-G is on the high mass Ikeda, and, through the Yamamoto SUT goes into the phono input of the HP100, that's been modified by Hovland to accept external plugs for cart loading, so I can play with 2 different approaches to vinyl reproduction, the european and the japanese.

Thanks for looking, Marco
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    • Sim Audio Moon Eclipse
    Top loading cd player
    • VPI Industries TNT HRX
    Added custom armboard for 2nd tonearm
    • Benz Micro SLR Gullwing
    Replaces VdH Colibri, now parked in the drawer awaiting better times
    • Reed P3Q
    10.5" wooden armtube tonearm
    • Phase Tech P-3G
    Low impedance, low compliance MC japanese cartridge
    • Ikeda IT407
    High mass, dynamic balanced japanese tonearm with detachable headshell
    • Choir Audio SUT Hp
    Hashimoto HM3 based mc step up
    • Lector Phono Amp System
    Tube phono stage
    • Ortofon SPU Meister Silver
    Couldn't resist the looks on Ortofon tonearm, sounds good too!!!
    • Ortofon RS309D
    12" dynamic balanced tonearm
    • Yamamoto SUT 01
    Japanese SUT with choice 1:10 or 1:30 step-up ratio
    • Hovland Company HP-100
    wonderful preamp, had the phono section modified by Hovland to change cart loading via ext plugs
    • Mastersound 845 monoblock
    Made in Italy
    • Triangle Magellan Concerto
    passive bi-amped
    • Acustica Applicata DAAD
    Acoustic absorber/diffuser, similar to Tube Traps
    • Symposium Ultra Platform
    Placed under turntable and monoblocks. The one under the turntable has custom cutout for motor assembly
    • Hovland Musicgroove 2
    2 pairs, one RCA-RCA from VPI to Lehmann, one DIN-RCA from Ikeda to Yamamoto
    • Audience Au24e
    1 pair between Lehmann and Hovland
    • Arcaydis Interface
    Improves preamp-poweramp impedance match and neutralizes negative effect of 7m (23') interconnects with no audible signal degradation

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you have great amp in your system,can you tell me what brand of 845 tubes and 6SN7 are you use now? Cause I have pair mastersounds 845 like you,I used chinese 845b and 5692 rca red base. but not that great,power to B&W N801.can you recommened any for me? thank you.Dan

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