My Living Room

by jjwinterberg on Opinions Please

Description

In my townhouse my living room has to do double duty for 2 channel and HT. The layout of the room is not great for acoustics and this is my current challenge. The room dimensions are: 24' long x 12' wide with a 12' ceiling. I really have no choice but to orient the system along the room width. This is further complicated by a fireplace that cuts across one of the corners. This limits my speaker placement options and I think is probably the limiting aspect to my system right now. Maybe I need to call Rieves?

I've tried to optimize the setup for both music and HT. The Theta gear really does do a great job on both.
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    • Theta Digital Casablanca
    An original Casablanca with the superior DACs for the fronts and the standard balanced DACs for the rears
    • McCormack DNA-2 Rev A+
    SMC rev A+ I love this Amp!
    • McCormack DNA-HT1
    SMC modded for balanced inputs
    • Velodyne HGS-15
    Very nice sub with quick and accurate response. Works well with both music and film.
    I had to place the sub towards the rear of the listening area to keep peace with the neighbor
    • JPS Superconductor 2 Balanced
    Balanced run between processor and DNA-2
    Very transparent - Highly recommended
    • JPS Superconductor 2 Digital I/C
    Digital Coax between DaViD and Casablanca
    • JPS Superconductor
    Dual bi-wire runs
    With dual outputs on the DNA-2 and the bi-wire inputs on the Nucleus this was a no-brainer
    • JPS Power AC and Digital AC
    Good P/Cs
    My friends had great fun over my purchase of $400.00 wire until they listened to them
    The Digital AC really did lower my noise floor with the Casablanca
    • ExactPower EP-2000
    Very high efficiency power regulator. I live in a townhouse and running didicated AC will be a nightmare so I went with trying to cleanup what I have. Because of this I need a very high efficiency unit
    • Richard Gray 400s
    I have 2 of these and they really do what they say, at least for my system. I guess if you had dedicated AC they might not make as much of a difference as they do for me.
    • Aurios Pro MIBs
    I have sets on my transport, Processor and DNA-2
    • Black Diamond Racing Cones and Source shelf
    I screw the cones into the Aurios MIBs and rest the shelf on the MIBs. Then I have cones between the shelf and the transport.

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Hi,
Nice system. Those Gallo speakers are certainly unique looking. I'm interested in your McCormack DNA-2 Rev A+ amp. You say you love it, tell me more. Also, I'm not familiar with the A+ Revision. What did Steve do on top of his regular Rev. A?

Regards,
John

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