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What do you think? Any thoughts &/or recommendations are warmly appreciated. I'm primarily into jazz (not smooth jazz), rock, trip-hop, lounge; whatever sounds good. My space's acoustics suck teabags due to bad dimensions, mediocre construction, structural asymmetry + a lack of carpeting & acoustic panels and likely space planning. Before I figured out this simple fact I burned through a lot of $$$$ thinking I had bad &/or poorly chosen gear.
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    • Music Hall Maverick
    Super Audio CD Player
    • Sony BDP-BX1 (Costco BDP-S350)
    Inexpensive Blu-Ray player to tide me over until more hifi mfrs. start offering them or I could just get a nice dac for this unit. My unit is sitting on Nordost Pulsar points and is being straddled by a satellite tuner.
    • Music Hall MMF 2.1 LE
    It sounds okay, is Ferrari red & plays discs; it'll get me through until I $$$$ to burn on a moving coil setup.
    • Music Hall Tracker
    Moving magnet.
    • (Rolls) Bellari VP 129
    Phono stage, warm & relaxed sound with the essential features.
    • Nordost 2 Flat
    Disappears sonically & visually. It's hard to go wrong with Nordost.
    • Duevel Planets
    Horn-loaded omni's.
    • S5 Electronics DIY kit integrated
    Unbelievably high sound quality for it's purchase price! I've never built anything electronic before & I finished it in under a day. Or get 2 for use as monoblocks and bridge them. I use mine to mate with my ASL preamp sometimes or with the Decco as the preamp but can be run directly from any source.
    • Antique Sound Labs LH-01
    Mellow.
    • Rotel RB-1080
    Decent entry level power amp 200 watts x 2 @ 8 Ohms
    • Macintosh Apple AirPort Express module
    I use it for streaming background music wirelessly.

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For high mass stands those look like good deal for money.I think there is a lot of snake oil out there (cables especially).If you can swing them one day gold (or rather iron) standard are Sound Anchors on wood floors.Looks like you have balanced entry system but I wonder why so much amp (I sold Adcom,Rotel,NAD as well as Krell and McIntosh for 6 years with B&W and other speakers and ran jazz section) for horn speakers?I run a pair of Odeon horns (German poor mans Avantegarde-no coloration like Klipsch).Only need 40 tube watts.With that power and medium room a pair of Totem or Ushers may not have mid purity of horns.I mention because I have some classic rock,classical (large scale),funk,and thievery corporation synthetic music that my 42" $6500 horns don't do justice to.For my 7K Jazz Lp's and CD's,small scale classical,folks,voice horns be they big or small low end $500 or $20K you get more flexibility from a moving coil speaker.And you have amp for an Usher 718 monitor,Gallo Ref (I hate Anthony Gallo so don't buy them),Totem Staff's.If into high sensitivity Zu Druids,Sliverline 17.5 (or any Silverline) or Hyperion are all wicked bang for buck speakers.But I am going to look yours up since though not top dollar this is sensible system that costs less than crap people not into good sound end up with.Wonder if that Bellari would run budget champ Denon DL-103?Good job but with that ASL and Rotel you have the current beyond horns.But maybe you got it right.I'll look into them (I am downsizing a bit and build systems for friends in spare time).
Cheers
Chazz

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