USB DA converter. I replaced the 3500.00 Wavelength Cosecant with this and I like it better! This has to be one of the best kept secrets in digital.
Oritek X2
from cosecant to preamp
Ayre Acoustics K-1xr
remote, no phono best piece of hifi I've ever bought!
Harmonix X-DC Wattgate
for the preamp
Oritek X1B
from preamp to amp
Parasound Parasound Halo JC-1
400 watt solid state monoblocks
Elrod EPS 3S
for the amps
Von Schweikert Audio VR4SR
Dynamic full range 4 way speakers system, in Ebony.
Von Schweikert Verbatim cable
single wire with built in jumpers made just for the VR speakers. I love the sound of these cables.
BPT 3.5 signature
everything plugs into it
Elrod EPS 3S
20amp cord for the BPT
Grand Prix Audio LeMans 5 shelf
everything sits on it
Grand Prix Audio LeMans 4 Shelf
rack
Grand Prix Audio F1 carbon shelves
I have 2 of these, one under the turntable and one under the Cosecant DAC
Grand Prix Audio Apex feet
Upraded feet for both Lemans racks
Alesis Masterlink
CD player/recorder. I use this to record from vinyl and casette
Audience Power Chord
for the Masterlink
Wadia 17
AD converter for use in recording from vinyl and casette tape. Hugely improves on the sound of the Alesis Masterlink doing the AD conversion. I get stellar recordings from my vinyl mostly due to this piece
Acoustic Zen Krakatoa
for the Wadia 17
Oritek X2
goes from preamp record out to the input on the Wadia 17.
Acoustic Zen MC2
SPDIF digital from Wadia 17 to the Alesis Masterlink
Nakamichi BX-300
Great tape deck for archiving some of my unreplacable old tapes to CDR
Oritek X1
from the tape deck to the preamp
Apple mac mini
Used to store and playback all my digital files via itunes. This is musically the single best thing I've ever done. I have over 2TB of lossless files and counting!
Apple Powerbook
I use this along with a virtual network controler (Chicken of the VNC) to control my mac mini remotely. I can sit in the sweet spot with my laptop and have access to all of my music!
Why am I not surprised that you have an amazing (but different) system than i remember hearing about several years ago... on the Iyer etc. topic, i had the Abbasi 3rd ear CD, (it was pretty ordinary) but i expect his other stuff is more interesting. Some Iyer w/ spoken word kinda put me off so my question about him was aimed at weeding these out. I've been liking some Rent Romus, (Lords of the Outland) and an older one called Thundershine that reminds me of some top level Vandermark. The last couple of Jason Kao Hwang discs are great, w/ Taylor Ho Bynum, Andrew Drury and Ken Filiano, (caught them in Vancouver in June). I like Broken Wire, real twisted electric violin , cello, guitar, bass, drums, (Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg Holm, Jim Baker). Delirium/Eclexistence on the TUM label is #@%^&&**, great kinda like Ornette Coleman Art of Improvisers in places but recorded alot better. Lard Free, (the pink one w/ the knife on the cover) is good crude old heavy psych. instrumental. The Patrick Brennan/Sonic Openings Under Pressure discs I have are up there as favorite sax, bass, drums trio recordings. Anthony Braxton Quartet 8 Standards, (Barking Hoop ) has burning straight ahead sax from A.B. and great drums from Kevin Norton... the guitar stuff is cool too. I'd like to get the new Univers Zero, the new Present, Brown vs. Brown and Zevious discs, (you could do a youtube search if you wanna get the gist of what they sound like...BTW, there's a Todd Sickafoose Show at the Jazzschool this coming Friday that looks pretty good.
