Description

With an addition on my house, I was able to custom outfit a living area as a home theatre/music listening area. I previously had this system in a downstairs area, but it was not quite as comfortable and well integrated. The new room is much more comfortable, the wall screen presents a much nicer image, and I now have the projector ceiling mounted and away from the backs of viewers heads. I was also able to run speaker cable for the rear speakers and have wall jack binding posts installed along with an A/C outlet in the ceiling for the projector. I originally had my turntable and a couple other components in the system, but have ultimately streamlined and simplified. I even pulled the Pass Labs X2.5 pre-amp out and am using the bypass mode on the Primare for 2-channel. Not quite as nice as the Pass pre, but VERY close in performance. A more low key (but still very nice) system on the main floor is home to the turntable in a different listening environment. Overall, this is a great sounding system that serves HT and 2-channel nicely. The ATC/Pass Labs set-up is highly dynamic and pretty huge sounding, though eminently musical and delicate when necessary. I'm able to fully fulfill my inner film-buff AND enjoy great sound. Cheers!
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    • Camelot Technology Roundtable Mk II
    DVD and CD player; very nice 2-channel playback (using Swiss Anagram DACs and 24/192 upsampling) in addition to a quality video presentation.
    • Primare SP31.7 Pre/Processor
    Home theatre processor/pre-amp. Nice, musical presentation for surround sound movie viewing in addition to serving as a great 2-channel preamplifier.
    • Pass Labs X150.5
    Two channel amplifier for main speakers.
    • Pass Labs X-3
    Three channel amplifier for center channel and rear surround speakers.
    • ATC SCM-20tsl
    Main speakers; great for movies AND music.
    • ATC SCM-20sl Center
    Matching center channel for ATC front/mains. GREAT and very dynamic center channel speaker.
    • ATC SCM-7
    Nice little monitors that round out the ATC system lineup; serving duty as rear surround speakers.
    • REL Acoustics Strata mkIII
    A big black cube handling bass duties, courtesy of REL. Deep and musical; worthy of its rep.
    • Sound Applications XE-12s
    Line conditioner for the system.
    • Acoustic Zen Satori
    Speaker cable for mains and center channel, along with matching Satori jumpers.
    • Wasatch Cable Works 105-U
    Interconnects for entire system with the exception of the center channel, which uses an Audioquest Python interconnect
    • Sonoran Plateau
    Power cords in use on both amplifiers.
    • Wasatch Cable Works PC-805
    Power cord for Camelot Roundtable.
    • Tekline PC-5
    Power cord for the Primare Processor; good value...probably gonna get a Sonoran to match up though.
    • Yamaha LPX-500
    Video projector.
    • Carada Precision Series Screen
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    • Porter Port A/C outlets
    Installed for the audio gear and the ceiling plug for the video projector.

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nice system you got there. are you considering changing your main speakers for some other ATC model?

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