SET bliss/Jazz Haven (In my home).

by charles1dad on Done For Now
Music Retreat.
All heart and soul, beautiful!
Jazz trumpeter Dwight Adams mastering his horn.
The late and great Roy Hargrove
Coincident Frankenstein 300b SET mono block.
SET realism
Amplifier flavors.
Pro-Ject RS2T
Abbas 3.2SE DAC Interior.
Abbas 3.2SE DAC.
Excellent audio signal chain
Frankenstein
Abbas3.2SE DAC
Live jazz in a friend’s living room.

Description

My objective is to duplicate the sound of a good jazz venue as best I can. I'll never match it but getting close is fine. I've had various audio components through the years and tubes particularly DHT tubes/ASSET have gotten me the closest.  So this is where I will settle down and appreciate.
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    • BPT Signature 3.5 plus
    Balanced AC power is fantastic !! 1800va balanced isolation transformer/conditioner.  All aspects of music reproduction are improved for every single component.
    • Tripoint Tripoint Troy.
    A wonderful grounding box component. When added to my system it increased the sense of natural sound quality and emotional engagement. The Troy has a humanistic and “soulful “ quality to it.
    • Coincident Speaker Tech Total eclipse 2
    This wonderful speaker is transparent,open and involving. It`s large yet completely disappears as the source of sound within the room. Very easy to drive,94db and 14 0hm impedance (Minimum 10 ohm). I replaced the stock Solens capacitor with the Duelund CAST in the crossover.
    • Coincident Statement linestage
    Superb performance. In my opinion , a masterpiece by Israel Blume. As would be expected, a wonderful match with its sibling the Frankenstein MK II.
    • Coincident Speaker Tech Frankenstein mark 2
    A terrific 300b SET amplifier that is the foundation of my system. The EML XLS 300b tubes are a superb match with this amplifier.  

    Acquiring these 300b SET mono blocks changed the course of my music listening experience. They elevated the emotional engagement, tactility and “breath of life “ realism.
    • Yamamoto YDA-01
    Wonderful music lover's DAC that has a very natural/organic sound quality. Duelund CAST addition(output coupling capacitors) makes it sound even better. It has a very minimalist circuit/design that was implemented well.
    • Ocellia Silver Reference IC
    Very natural and pure sounding with excellent tone and timbre preservation.
    • Ocellia Silver Reference Speaker Cable
    Same qualities/ comments as the IC.
    • Star Sound Technologies Sistrum Apprentice component platforms..
    These Star Sound platforms are mandatory in my system. Effectively managing resonance and vibration leads to a very noticeable sound improvement with every component and especially the speakers. Excellent product.
    • High Fidelity CT1 Ultimate Digital cable
    A highly impressive digital cable that mates beautifully into my system. Contributes to the natural sound presentation.
    • Pro-Ject Audio Systems CD Box RS2T
    This is a superb Redbook CD playback transport. It’s both high resolution and impressively natural.

    . I’m  using the  excellent Fidelizer Nikola II LPS. Splendid pairing.  
    • Lavricables Grand and Master series Power Cables.
    Pure silver wire and unshielded power cables. These are used with all of my audio components. They are very open, transparent, high resolution with beautiful natural tone and timbre presentation.
    • Abbas Esoteric Audio 3.2SE
    Built by renown Ukrainian Abbas Zulfugarov. NOS DAC utilizing the classic Phillips TDA 1541 multi bit chip. Two 6080 tubes in the analog stage. 5 various rectifier tubes in the power supplies.

     3 separate toroidal transformers (And 2 chokes ) for the power supplies.A very serious and successful upper tier DAC implementation. Using with the Abbas SPDIF and power cable.
    • Frankenstein tubes.
    Tube complement 
    EML XLS 300b output.
    RCA 5U4G rectifier (1953)
    RCA 6EM7 driver (1960s).

Comments 1956

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Owner
Sebrof,
The speaker`s 94db efficiency is plenty for my 8 watt/channel amps' My room size is 25x14x8ft. most listening is done in the range of 75-85db. At this sound level the amp is coasting at less than 1 watt of output. I sit 10 feet from the speakers.

charles1dad

Owner
Sebrof,
After numerous comparisons of cable over the years I`ve found silver cables if done properly just sound more natural. The stereotype of silver being bright,thin or edgy has`nt been the case for me. The good quality silver wires are in fact rather smooth and relaxed but with excellent detail and transparency. Thanks for your cmments.

charles1dad

Nice system. Looking at the specs of the speakers it seems that even though they are not very high efficient I would guess they play very nicely with your 300b amp.
How did you settle on the silver interconnects and wires?

sebrof

Owner
Thanks Montejay,
With a company like Coincident around it made things simpler for sure.Their electronics/speaker combo provides the sheer naturalness and realism I`ve always sought.That darn Yamamoto DAC has nearly identical sound character for a most compatable match. I can only imagine how wonderful your system must sound with the pure reference extremes.
Regards

charles1dad

Hi Charles. Very nice system. I like how you choose your components.Great philosophy.
Enjoy

montejay

Hi Charles. Very nice system. I like how you choose your components.Great philosophy.
Enjoy

montejay

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