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.
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.
I also own a McCormack DNA-2 Rev A and wouldn't trade it for the world(relatively speaking). There appears to be no end in sight as to it's performance limitations.
