Progressive Scan DVD

all silver designed by Jaap Gunter, former chief designer for Siltech

heavily modified; re-wired with Cardas; sorbothane applied to underside of platter; tonearm shrinkwrapped; feet removed and replaced with cones; cones sit on discs; discs sit on sorbothane; sorbothane sits on granite; granite sits on sorbothane; sorbothane sits on shelf!

moving iron, top of the line Grado

Phono stage

MkII mode; integrated. Powers the speakers in stereo mode; powers the L and R channels in home theater mode.

Subwoofer amp

stereo speakers; L and R channels in home theater mode; Snell center channel and surround speakers. GREAT speakers! BTW, Joe D'Appolitto, the inventor of the "D'Appolitto array," is now a designer at Snell. Previously had both the Snell A Reference Tower System and the B Minors. The A Reference Towers were great, but overpowered my small-ish listening room. The B Minors sound more "integrated" in my room, despite the tremendous variance in cost.

L, R and CC.

Powers the surround speakers.

AC line conditioners

Heavy-duty PCs based on Beldon fire-wire.

Based upon a Russco transcription turntable, a very small shop vac, and sorbothane, this record cleaning machine applies 1 hp. of suction power, while the 'table part is about as powerful as you'll ever find. Is it any good? John Grado had me build one for him. The photo demonstrates just how much this machine can remove!

Another photo. Contact me if you'd like instructions for building your own.

Snell's monster sub. Comes with earthquake insurance!

Snell's expanding array center channel speaker -- fantastic intelligibility and range.

Snell Suround speakers; each one has 3 tweeters, 2 midrange, and 1 woofer.