Jazz in the living room

by norfish on Done For Now
Verity Audio Parsifal Ovations
Classic 120's
LP's!
Bird
equipment

Description

A very musical (what an overused term!) system which leans to the warm side of neutral. The Ovations are great imagers and have very satisfying bass. My main goals continue to be neutral timbres and the illusion of real instruments playing in my acoustic space. Imaging is important but secondary to dynamics and creating this illusion. The living room is 14 x 20 feet.
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    • Sony SC-D1
    SACD player and CD transport with superclock 2 and transport mod.
    • Levinson No-360s
    Wonderful DA converter.
    • VPI Industries TNT-5
    All mk.5 upgrades but with original mk.1 platter.
    • Graham Engineering 1.5t/c
    with both aluminum and ceramic armwands, and 2.2 bearing cap upgrade.
    • Lyra Helikon
    Helikon mono for mono records!
    • Benz Micro LP Ebony
    Black as night, still breaking in...
    • Audio Research Reference 1
    with Great Northern Sound reference mod.
    • Klyne Audio Arts 7PX-3.5
    Wonderful phono preamp with lots of gain.
    • Audio Research Classic-120
    Recently upgraded by GNS with Reference level mods (including balanced inputs, Cardas connectors, new caps, and assorted other changes to the passive components).
    • Verity Audio Parsifal Ovation
    In beautiful Makore wood!
    • Straightwire Crescendo and Virtuoso
    Great interconnects with a warm, ballsy sound.
    • Discovery Essence
    A very tuneful phono cable.
    • Purist Audio Venustas
    12 feet speaker cable. Also use Venustas jumpers on the Verities.
    • Wireworld Gold Starlight 5
    Really great cable.
    • Balanced Power Technologies BPT 3.5 Signature Plus
    Great balanced power conditioner.
    • BPT Pure Power Center
    power strip with Wattagate outlets
    • Shunyata Python, Copperhead, and Taipan
    power cords.
    • PS Audio Lab cables
    From the wall to the UO's, and from the UO's to the amps.
    • Magnum Dynalab FT-101a
    FM tuner.
    • Alesis Masterlink 9600
    CD burner (and a spare transport).
    • Argent Room Lenses
    Really good for focusing the soundstage.
    • ASC Tube traps
    The Circe's like a more lively room so I had to remove some of the traps.
    • Stax Lamba Pro Headphones
    Electrostatic headphones with solid state headphone amp.
    • Yanagisawa A-991
    Great jazz maker with wonderful tonality. Can adjust timbre by moving mouthpiece in and out. Can play up to high F#.

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Norfish-

I have the VA Parsifal Ovations on my short list, in fact I am down to the shortests of lists right now. I may take the plunge soon. I have the Peak Consults Incognto X and SF Amati on the list too..

What other speakers were on your list? What were the key charactoristics that compelled you to pull the trigger on the VA's over any others?

Thanks in advance, John

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