The system you see is presently what has been tickling my eardrums and any suggestions would be appreciated. The tubes in the system are all NOS starting with 6 Telefunken ECC803s in the preamp and 2 in the CAT with Valvo pinched waist CCa Herleen factory tubes. These tubes have a sweet sound with lots of open air and a vast soundstage that is hard to beleive. I have yet to complete some room tweaks like carpeting and then some wall dampening.Look forward to your opinins on room dampening treatments.I finally found a Canadian source for OC703 rigid insulation for the DIY guys.
The Wilson WATT Puppy version 8 remains one of the most high-performance audiophile loudspeakers in the world. When fewer and fewer audiophile products have customers knocking down doors to buy them, the Wilson WATT Puppy version 8 loudspeaker system is still going strong and packing real consumer demand. It is rare to find a speaker so capable of reproducing music and movies with such skill and this is one of chief reasons why people shell out the big bucks to own Wilson WATT Puppy loudspeakers. They just do everything well.
Wavelength Audio Cosecant V3 USB Tube DAC
USB tube DAC transformer coupled output and Transcendental DAC module
Convergent Audio SL-1 Legend
To use with the TT to be purchased only
Microseiki RX-5000
Old Faithful
Fidelity Research FR-64s Silver Edition
2of these
SME 12 3012R. 3012RG. 3012x2
According to some the only tonearm you need. We will wait and see
Ortofon SPU Collection
Classic,85th Anniv.,90th Anniv,Gold
Valve Amplification Company Phi 2.0 Controller
VAC Phi 2.0 Master Control Triode Preamplifier
Audio Metallurgy GA-0 Interconnects
One 2 metre pair and a .75M pair. Very transparent sound.
Transparent MusicWave Speaker Cables
10' with Banana terminations. Better with the highs tones down the harshness of the Wattpuppy8's. They can be extremely detailed in the mids and higher ranges
Custom Pure Silver Custom Cables
Cardas spade terminations with custom solid silver stranded cable. I got rid of my Transparent Reference Speaker cables that retailed for $8000.00 for these.
Panasonic PT-AE 900
LCD 720DPI Projector
Lexicon Lexicon MC-12 v4
The MC-12 V4 room-equalization upgrade kit ($2995) consists of a DSP card, Version 4 software on CD-ROM, a demo CD, and written documentation. The DSP card doubles the Lexicon MC-12's DSP capabilities, providing up to 10 output channels with seven parametric filters each. These seven digital equalizers, which treat the frequencies between 19 and 250Hz, are controlled by the processor's software, which looks for the most severe room resonances. The equalizers correct a room's resonant peaks by reducing the output levels at those frequencies. Instead of going for ruler-flat response, the Lexicon system tries to reduce the worst resonances to improve the system's overall clarity and balance.
Power Conditioner bt
Only for the Home theatre side of the room.
Paradigm Centre channel
Center channel with Studio right and left and bidirectional firing rear speakers.
Cardas Golden Power
15 amp cables The Golden Reference power cord provides the ultimate current flow and is relatively flexible for its size.
Apple Mini
Dedicated music server using iTunes and lossless files as a source for the Wavelength.I use a 1.5 TB backup hard drive for backing up all the music.
Hello, how's the sound with the acoustic treatments? When I added minor treatment there was a big improvement in the sound even with a med tall rack in the middle of the SS. I know the W/P 8's will let you hear the slightest change for better/worse!!!
