- Auralic Aries Mini with Sbooster Power Supply
A great sounding little streamer and love the Lightning DS app!
- Audio Note UK DAC-3 Signature
Audio Note Dac-3 Signature built in1995! I recently had the coupling caps upgraded to AN copper caps. Output tubes are a pair of Mullard CV2492 and the Dac sounds really sweet, transparent, natural, with great tone.
- Deja Vu Audio Full-Function Tubed Stereo Preamp
Tubed preamp from Deja Vu Audio in Vienna VA. This is an older prototype
with a built-in tubed crossover and phonostage, but I run it just as a
linestage. A mix of vintage and current parts, including XLO internal wire and an
ALPs volume pot from 1977 that was chosen for it's superior sound quality. Amazing warm, organic,
lifelike sound, very synergistic with my amp both designed and built by
Deja Vu's former designer whiz Pavel.
- Deja Vu Audio Custom EL-34 Stereo Amplifier
A stereo pushpull amp with a pair of EL34's per channel, three 6SN7's up
front and a 5U4G rectifier. Triode wired running in Class A putting out
17 warm sweet powerful watts per channel. Vintage Acrosound transformer
from the 60's. With Gold Lion KT-77's and a recapping last year with
NOS Aerovox Caps from the 1960s. A 60's era RCA rectifier and Sylvania
6SN7's complete the package.
- Audio Note AN/Jlx in Olive Wood Finish on Sound Anchors
I finally pulled the trigger on new speakers after 10 years with my previous JMlabs Micros. Vu at Deja Vu Audio really pointed me in the right direction with the AN/J's they arrived yesterday and look and already sound great. They are the Lexus copper wired version which Vu recommended for it's warmth compared to the silver wired versions. He also recommended the original paper woofer over the newer blue hemp cones, finding the hemp drivers to be a bit dry sounding. These sound great already and should really start to sing around the 100 hour mark!
- Cerious Technologies Nano Signature Power Cable
I have this powering my power conditioner, great budget PC!
- Furutech FP-S032N With F1-11 Gold Connectors
I have two of these excellent 12awg power cords feeding my DAC and preamp, custom made for me by Chris Venhaus at VH Audio.
- ExactPower 2000 AC Power Conditoner
Balanced voltage device and line conditioner.
For my power amp, ramps up voltage gradually to a steady 120V.
- Jorma Design Digital Cable
The best digital cable I've heard in my system bar none. Beautiful organic vivid sound with real musical flow. Connecting the Aries Mini to my AN Dac.
- Kondo AudioNote Japan KSL-Vc
Kondo's copper interconnect running from my DAC to preamp. I thought it would be perfect to add AN Japan to AN UK and I was right. This cable sounds fantastic an improvement in tonality, timbre, tonal color, and detail. Music flows better and sounds more real.
- Auditorium 23 Interconnect
This gave me that final ahhh moment when i connected it between my amp and preamp. Just a gorgeous sounding cable that makes music sound more real and natural.
- Audio Note Lexus Copper Speaker Cables
Hooked up my new AN/Jlx's with the same copper wire they are internally wired with, nice to get away from garden hose sized cables to something more human sized.
- Gregitek Aries Graf Footers
Carbon fiber and aluminum under my Aries Mini and my amp.
- Combak Corp Brass and Ebony Footers
Under my preamp.
- Synergistic Research Black Quantom Fuse
Installed in my preamp.
NAS server feeding my Aries Mini two 4 TB hard drives in a hybrid RAID configuration.
- High Fidelity Cables MC-0.5
I was loaned one of these from my friend Jim @lowrider57, and liked the more relaxed feeling it gave to the music. When High Fidelity was closing them out half price recently I picked one up, it's been in the system for a month now. Nice tweak and I am not much of a tweaker!
- Blue Jeans Cable Bonded Pair Cat-6a ethernet cable
From modem/router to my Aries and from my NAS to my router.
- Deja Vu Audio Custom Pushpull 2a3 amp
I was loaned this amp by Deja Vu when my own amp went in the shop, it's still there, and instantly fell in love with it. It's pushpull as the title says with dual power trasformers and vintage Eico output transformers. I am officially adding it to my system as I made the decision to keep it, as I suspected would happen all along. It sounds fantastic I love the sound of the 2a3 tube and pushing 15wpc it's a perfect match to my AN-J's.
I acquired this little 100 watt Brit amp locally to use as an emergency backup locally for a very good price. I ran it in the system for a day to test it out and it sounds surprisingly good for a modest priced SS amp.
- Wisdom Cable Technology Power Stage ES-10
I've been looking for a new power distributor and this unit fit the bill nicely well constructed and sounds good too.
- Yamamoto Soundcraft YDA-1 Dac
My old friend is back bought back from the person I sold it too and happy to have my beloved Yamamoto returned to me.
I've finally upgraded my streamer my beloved Aries Mini served me faithfully for 6 years but I couldn't pass up the demo deal i got on this G1. Same great Auralic sound just a bit more of it. ;)
- Wright Sound WPA-3.5 2a3 SET Monoblocks
Found a great deal on these George Wright 2a3 monoblocks and they sound fantastic. Outfitted with NOS GE/Raytheon 2a3s, and some 60s RCA 6SN7's and RCA 5Y3 rectifiers. Sweet and transparent and dead quiet!
Picked up this 60s era tube caddy and finally have my tubes sort of organized at least not all over the place!
