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 $$$$ thinking I had bad &/or poorly chosen gear.
Inexpensive Blu-Ray player to tide me over until more hifi mfrs. start offering them or I could just get a nice dac for this unit. My unit is sitting on Nordost Pulsar points and is being straddled by a satellite tuner.
Music Hall MMF 2.1 LE
It sounds okay, is Ferrari red & plays discs; it'll get me through until I $$$$ 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.
Thanks for the comments. The ASL Pre looks like a nice little tube amp. I've never heard a completely tube Pre, only a hybrid SS/Tube pre (Audio Research SP9). I think that thing only has like one tube in it, but it sounded good. Looks like you have a pretty cool setup - those speakers look wild! I know what you mean about the poor room acoustics, they are really annoying to deal with. Happy listening
