I just replaced the Airy 3X sb, and as much as I liked the Airy 3, the UNIverse is simply that much better. I can't wai till it's broken in and doing everything it should. It has so much more weight and authority, and speed.
TriPlanar VII
black and silver. I've never seen an arm so versatile and easy to setup.
Sota Cosmos sIV (the first one!)
Black plex finish
Pass Labs X-ONO
Excellent industrial chic. Nearly as quiet a phonostage as money can buy, with great sound reproduction.
Pursit Audio Design Venustus
1.5 meter interconnect.
Sony SC-D777es
sacd, 1 bit. Modded by Richard Kern in Dec 2005. added new superclock and replaced all caps with Black Gates. The sound is much less 'digital.'
Purist Venustus
1.5 meter IC
Klyne Audio Arts 7LX-3.5b
This is upgraded to newer than the 3.5 version and includes balanced inputs. VERY musical.
Purist Dominus, 4 meter
4 meter pair of the liquid filled Dominus between the pre-amp and amp. The best cable I have ever heard.
Classe Audio Omicron
350 wpc, nearly 300lbs! IMO this has all the benefits of SS w/o the harsh realities. Much more musical than the Krell FPB 700cx I had previously.
Purist Dominus PC - 2
Using two Dominus PCs on the Classe amplifier
Purist Venustus
1.5 meter pair
Harmonic Precision Caravelle
Smallish two way with the original stand.
Sistrum SP-1 (?)
I bought five shelves with the solid top for the Sota Cosmos table. This is a great rack. If a person spent twice the money they might be able to get something better, but is it twice as good? The picture is just the top shelf. [url]http://starsound.biz/multiplatforms.HTML[/url] gives more info.
Purist Venustus PCs (2)
On the Sota power supply and the Klyne power supply.
Exact Power EP15A
I don't know what this thing is doing, but it sure does it better than the Tice Power Block...
Custom made Brass cones
A machinist associate agreed to make several sets of brass cone to use under my phono stage and pre-amp
Yea, I'm still looking. I emailed everyone in my group and no one seems to have them.
I probably put them in a drawer and don't remember where. I've only been out of the hospital a few days and between the surgery and drugs I'm not 100%.
If I can find them, Nate is welcome to try them for as long as he needs to make a decision.
I am the one that directed Nrchy to GR Research. Nate and I were speaking on the phone a few weeks ago and I told him how much I liked Danny's designs.
Danny (GR Research) brought a book shelf speaker to my home last Saturday and we gave it a good run. It was an unfinished test model, a prototype that when finished will retail for a very low price. Based on what I heard, it was an strong first showing.
I've heard the large Alpha Line speakers on multiple occasions, twice at friends homes here in Dallas and last year at the Denver Audio Festival. Of the two homes with the large Alpha, one was Gary Dodd (Dodd Audio-amps) and the other is a friend in my audio group that bought the speaker after I suggested it to him.
Danny has two new models that will be much better than what is currently shown on his web site. There is also plans for a super speaker, the prototype will visit me before it goes into production, and I can hardly wait to hear it.
I'm getting the same impression of Danny Ritchie as I got from Jim Aud of Purist Audio when I met him in 1986 (only one cable in his inventory) and Jim White before he got Aesthetix going and still having to be paged at Theta Digital where he had solid employment.
Danny WILL be very important to the high end industry. More so than he is already. His speakers have been garnering praise but he is low profile. That will not always be the case. He will be very famous and successful, I would bet on it.
It might be as soon as today that I put an ad here for the Krell FPB 700cx, and the Kharma speakers. After that, I'm not sure what I'm going to be required to do
I don't like the sound of that my friend. I sincerely hope all is well at your household and with your health.