Description

Total room redo with new pictures coming. The wall to wall carpet has been replace with hardwood floors and an area rug, and the system now resides along the long wall. The speakers are now much further from the sidewalls, and yet farther apart, so sound-staging has improved.
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    • Wadia 302
    Same CDP I had before. Digital signal attenuation is a nice touch.
    • Amazon Model 3
    Nice functional turntable.
    • RS Laboratories RS-A1
    Interesting "extra-plinth" tonearm with rotating headshell.
    • Zyx R-100 Yatra
    Mc Phono Cartridge .48 output.
    • Coph-Nia MC Phono Preamplifier
    SS MC phono preamp from Sweden
    • Sony BDP-N460
    Blu-Ray player. Not the top of the line, but seeing as how I have no blu-ray content yet...
    • Musical Fidelity A3CR
    Solid State Preamp
    • 2 Herron Audio M-150
    2 150 watt per channel monoblocks.
    • Wilson Audio Cub II
    CUB IIs with their official stands. As always, Wilson's finish is impeccable.
    • Silent Source Signature
    My favorite IC's to date
    • Cardas Golden Presence
    1.5 m runs to each CUB.
    • Walker Audio Velocitor
    Passive conditioner with QRT OEM module.
    • Billy Bags 5604
    Nice, Clean new rack.
    • Sony Bravia
    KDL-46S5100 HDTV
    • Nottingham Analogue Space Deck
    with custom plinth
    • Nottingham Analogue Space Arm
    Tonearm

Comments 14

Owner
System edited: Added Nottiingham pieces I've actually had for about a year.

sdatch

Owner
System edited: New preamp, and some to be elaborated upon room changes.

sdatch

Owner
System edited: Updated pictures.

sdatch

Owner
System edited: New analog system in place - pictures coming soon. I am still feeling my way around the RS-A1.

sdatch

Owner
System edited: Big changes are coming to my analog rig. I know, I know, what analog rig? Well I guess that's the whole point. Also, the whole shebang is moving to a new location. Then it will be off to the chiropractor...

sdatch

Owner
Thanks - it does, especially now that the new 6922 tubes have about 40 hours on them.

sdatch

cool pice, system looks great....I bet its sounds fantastic

chadnliz

Owner
System edited: Added description of the Kora preamp. This was in the pictures of the system for awhile, but I had not described it. I recently retubed it - the jury is still out, until the tubes get a little more time on them.

sdatch

Owner
System edited: Added pictures.

sdatch

Owner
System edited: As GW might say, I've "neatified" the whole thing, with new rack, etc. I am going digital, straight from Wadia 302 to the amps for now, as this seems to bethe least compromised sound for that portion of my collection. I don't have much time for vinyl at the present, but I look to resume analog duties in the second half of 2008.

sdatch

Owner
System edited: I have my new carpet on order and stair repair is complete. Thank God our cleaning lady spilled an entire container of Pine-Sol on the soon to be removed carpet instead of the new one! I will post pictures of this whole thing once the carpet is installed, and my stuff is rearranged. Moving 500 Lps and 1500 Cds is not pleasant. Maybe Steve Jobs has a point after all...

sdatch

Owner
System edited: Added some nice new monitors to the mix - Talons are temporarily in safe storage while I play around. The new monitors are Wilson Audio CUB IIs. These are so good looking, at least to me, that I am completely rethinking my choice of decor for the redesigned room. Sonic evaluation will come after I return from vacation and complete room related stuff in August.

sdatch

Owner
I will soon - I am changing the appearance of the room - actually our whole house is getting a makeover, but from an Audiogon "My System" perspective, obviously this would be the one that counts. I am primarily redoingthe carpets and molding - the paneling replacement will have to wait, which isn;t a big deal, because the one aspect of the room that was truly hideous was the carpet.

sdatch

Nice gear you have there, got any pics to share?

chadnliz

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