Apogees in the House

by ptmconsulting on Done For Now
The System
Listening Spot
The rack
Nipper

Description

Moving from cone speakers to a set of Apogee Duetta Signature speakers has shown me that there is value to be found in old equipment, for sure. There is certainly more than one way to skin this cat ... I went for the high power SS route with lots of tubes in front of it.

System strengths: natural timbre, musical, transparent with amazing soundstaging, dynamic, good PRAT, no fatigue from CD or vinyl. This is as good as I've heard in many rooms.
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    • VPI Industries Aries
    DIY clone w/ Classic ceramic platter & bearing
    • Lyra Kleos
    with a small quartz crystal stuck to the front (aka Lloyd Walker Black Diamond tweak) - yes, it works - smoother and wider soundstage
    • Moerch DP6
    chrome with Moerch silver interconnect
    • DIY Seismic Sink Racks
    50 lbs of sand in each shelf
    • Hagerman Trumpet
    This phono stage is truly
    • Mark Kelly Speed Controller Synchrotron AC-1
    DIY Turntable Speed Controller, similar to a VPI SDS
    • Hagerman` Piccolo MC Step Up
    DIY moving coil step up with custom caps and resistors
    • Ayre CX7e-MP
    Stereophile Class A
    • AudioPrism Mantissa PH1
    updated to 1999 model spec, updated with Teflon coupling caps
    • McCormack DNA 500
    Just an amazing amp with finess, bloom, slam, smooth and effortless with gaggles of headroom
    • Apogee Acoustics Duetta sig
    Upgraded my Calipers for a mint pair of Duetta Signatures. Bigger sound, more impact & punchier, overall much better.
    • REL Acoustics Strata mkIII
    wood grain
    • Sennheiser 600
    Great headphones (unmodded, do you believe it?)
    • Peter Millet Mini Max
    DIY Headphone Amp
    • Analysis Plus Solid Crystal Oval Interconnects
    used in most places throughout the system
    • Triode Wire Labs Bi-Wire Speaker Cable
    6' bi-wire "American Speaker Cable"
    • Triode Wire Labs Power Cord
    used on the amp, preamp and phono stage
    • Kaplan Copper Power Cord
    used throughout the system
    • JRPC (DIY) Jon Risch design
    w/ Lukasz mods & integral JR digital isolation filter for DAC outlet

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Yes - I ment building a machine from scratch. I have designed virtually everything exept the motor. The local engineer must do all the milling and-so-forth. See my system for the BALSA-Tone arm that I made.

"You just have to take a peek inside the equipment to get to know it and then adjust it to your liking..."

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Dewald Visser >> [email protected] <<

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