- JC Verdier LaNovelle-Super Tweak
Super Tweak! original oil bath bearing house, 16kg platter, 3 point large spring loaded suspension,solid wood plinth, can hold two arms, additional custom made marble base with 5mm polished "stainless steel" plate placed on top and custom made heavy duty solid aluminum spikes with height adjustment, lowest resonance & rumble free ever, weight total of 200 lbs of the whole turntable system, combined soft & hard type turntable sounding, just WOW !!
- Triplanar Series 7 Ultimate 2
My dream tonearm with lots of flexibility adjustment, just love it.
- Scheu Analog Das Laufwerk motor unit
Replaced with this Germany made motor unit, top of the line, much precise & accurate speed for the JC, a significant upgrade ! best with it own plastic belt to pull the 16kg platter. Specification : Electronically regulated DC motor Microcontroller with digital 4-Q PI-controller Overload protection by integrated speed-dependent current-limitation Fine-speed adjustment +-3% for 33 und 45 rpm.
Weight 1.8kg, the ultimate tweak for the JC Verdier to tam ringing of platter, bring it to a higher sound improvement, unfortunately has discontinued due to stop production of such material.
- LYS Electronique GYRASCOPE & record Clamp
Independent Electronical Stroboscope, ultra precise and accurate for measuring speed, use as record clamp as well. Made in France. http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=thehighendmusic2;id=97;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Elys%2Delectronique%2Ecom%2F
- PASS Labs XONO 2 chassis phono amp
Legendary phono amp designed by Wayne Colburn, single ended pure Class A design, with "QUAD" of ultra low noise matched JFETS from the input stage, followed by MOS Fets for output devices, last version with same size power supply unit, lots of adjustment,dead silent with 76db of gain, without the use of step up transformer, very transparent yet neutral sound, love it a lot, solved the hum issue by seperately both units (not stack).
- PlayBack Designs MPS3 CD player
This is the final CD player that made me stop upgrading, DSD compatible and up sampling every cd to all the way DSD x 2 !beat my previous dCS 4 stacks (Verdi / Verona / Purcell / Elgar plus), very close to Vinyl playback.
- Audio Research Reference 5SE
High resolution with sweeeeeeeet sound, a very lifelike pre amp I ever owned.
- Audio Research Reference 150
Everything is there,effortless driving capability, made the Sasha the best sounding ever !!
My 7th Wilson Audio speaker !! my sound preference always goes to Wilson speaker.
- Finite Elements CERABASE Classic
Ceramic ball design, enhance overall focus and higher density of sound stage, used underneth my Reference 5SE.
- DH Labs Q10 Signature Double Run
Unbelieveable speaker cables that beat my previous 3K Transparent speaker cables, more open, fast, and deeper bass.
- Custom marble base 120 lbs
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- Nordost RedDawn XLR interconnect cable
XLR 2.0M connected between Pre & Power
- Heavens Gate Blue power cable
Power cable for CD9, mid range to die for !
- Belden 83803 professional power cable
Used in my pre amp and power amp, very dynamic yet transparent power cable, beat down many expensive cable.
- Counterpoint Elliot Audio Design Engineering Magnum Opus One
The best ever
The most transparent and neutral amp I ever used!