This is my simple music system. It's been through many upgrades/changes, but I'm finally slowing down, and finally enjoying the music. I got into DIY audio a while back and it really got me to where I want to be. Although my diy amp and hp amp are in a second system, the rest speakers, rack and some cables are still in use.
On a side note I used to be a power cable naysayer, until I made the bob crumps cord to replace the stock ones, and heard what I was missing! I didn't see the full advantage until I added a ps audio sc premier cable to the quintet.
Great USB DAC, Modded w/ Phillips 6922 Tube, 6x12" sheet of dampener, sitting on marbles (not shown), Volex (belden) 14ga power cable
Phase Linear 8000 mkII
Linear tracking arm, manual mode only (needs new tonearm lift belt) Great sound stage!
Marantz PM-15S1
Great dynamic intergrated! Built like a tank and pairs nice with my F5
Pass Labs DIY First Watt F5
52W @ 4ohm. Simple Class A :)
Seas Thor MLQWTL (DIY)
Mass loaded DIY speaker. holographic vocals, amazing soundstage, great bass. needs more air to breathe though
HP laptop transport
HP media laptop i3, 4gb DDR3, 500gb HDD (going to NAS eventually) USB to DAC
Droid 2 Remote
J River Gizmo app for full remote capabilities. Very cool! Also allows phone streaming anywhere!
Beyerdynamic DT770
250 ohm version. These are my favorite headphones I've owned to date. Amazing extended highs, low, impacting bass, Very large sound stage, and best of all-COMFORTABLE. Snagged these up on Amazon when they were 130 shipped!
PS Audio Quintet
10 outlet power conditioner-5 isolated zones, great improvement over the wall
Grace F-9E
Great dynamic MM cart
Blue Jeans LC-1
lower noise floor, increased dynamics, etc etc
Bob Crumps DIY power cables
"audio asylum" cable on DAC and Amp
Cat-5e DIY braided speaker cables
Belden solid core w/ Teflon. With Rhodium plated silver Cardas Spades. Great sound, need to construct a Zobel for them though!
I definitely sympathize with the living space constraints. If your speakers are spiked, you might consider Herbie's "sliders," which facilitate moving the speakers around -- and into optimal position for listening. Not sure if they'd work on carpet, but I bet they would (at least on short carpet). J
Thanks, I have experimented moving my speakers out, and it's made a tremendous improvement. Extremely inconvenient right now, as it blocks a passageway.
Cool, all the nice DIY stuff. Have you fooled around with speaker placement at all? Wondering if they'd like to be into room more, and a possibly a bit clearer of the AV rack.
