The culmination of 35 years interest in this hobby/obsession of ours! I have always collected vinyl records (as many in their mid 50's will have done) and bought my first CD player in 1988. My current analogue and digital sources do not compete with each other for sonic superiority and to my ears represent a very satisfying balance. I enjoy listening to both, particularly albums I collected in the 70's and 80's which I have not duplicated on silver disc. The SACD's I have in my collection sound stunning and I particularly appreciate classical music on digital for the background silence and absence of occasional clicks and pops although I will say that the vinyl front end does an excellent job of suppressing these.

I feel that I have arrived at a system that fully exploits the music and I spend hours each day in my 'dedicated' room. I have installed a single AC point for the hi fi system from a seperate mains consumer unit not on the house ring. The room peaks/nulls have been compensated for by application of absorbers/difusers and careful attention paid to positioning equipment, speakers and cabling to maximise performance. My current investigations are in the field of vibration transmission around the system and how to minimise it.