Recently dumped the home theater/rear channel stuff and added a nice analog front end. Rega P7 and Threshold FET ten/pc. Dedicated 2-channel system built on the sonographe 250 amp and TAD-150 tubed preamp - which seem to mate well with the Joseph Audios. Add on a vintage Kenwood receiver and some Monitor audio surrounds and you've got home theater and surround sound (via DVD - TV audio is still two-channel). I'm OK with different quality for surround channels - not really used for critical listening.
Surround sound speakers (Monitor R90s) were chosen mostly for thier good looks- on stands in mid room so needed high SAF from all angles.
Green canvases behind the speakers are DIY sound treatments - artist canvas stuffed with foam and painted to match room.
This is a tough room sonically - sliding glass doors on the right - not much room to bring speakers out into room.
I need to upgrade the speaker cable from biwire zip cord - any thoughts? (for a cheapskate..?)
Tube pre-amp with remote control, phono and 3 line-ins
Joseph Audio RM-22si sig
black 2-way. 25 pounds of sand in each.
Sonographe SA-250
made by Conrad Johnson
Mirage Omni S10
10in Sub - 200W
Monitor Audio Radius 90
2-way surrounds, beautiful hardwood
Lite Dac-Ah
8 parallel chips, NOS (non-oversampling), opamp modified by pacific valve, switch modified my me.
Yamaha DVD-S1500
single disc DVD/DC player
Apogee Wyde-Eye SPDIF
Digital out from NAD to DAC
Kimber 4VS
for woofer
Alpha core Goertz MI 2
for tweeters - silver spades
PowerVar ABC1000-11
10 amp power conditioner with 6 outlets
DIY JPS-style homebrew
DIY recipe found on audioasylum - Andrew Heliax coax cable - copper clad aluminum core with solid copper shield - Canare F10 plugs. This stuff is harder and stiffer than anything... Supposedly the very earliest JPS ICs used a cable like this. Jury is still out on sound.
Apple AppleTV 160
My primary digital source is now a 160GB AppleTV connected via Toslink to the DAC.
Nothing ugly about it, really. In fact, you have one of the more comfortable-looking rooms on here. (Some of the others would make me feel more like I'm being studied in a lab, than relaxing at home.) Nice job of bringing together seemingly disparate objectives and pieces!
