Seikosha ..

You spotted the Achilles heel right away. Our living/listening room is quite small.. At least in some ways. Being pack rats for all kinds of goofy things doesn't help maters much either. For critical listening, I pull the speakers out about to where the rug is. I have posted a current picture and it shows that the Jolida tube amp went away to make someone else happy. In its place is a Origin Live Table with an Origin Live arm. The port is now 12 inches away from the arm in its resting position. There is no option. I must pull the speakers out, critical listening or not. Dilemma's... Dilemma's !
You have yourself a pretty nice system as well. I want to try a DecWare as soon as I recover from the expense of the Origin table and arm... Not cheap ! .... But they are worth it.

Mapman,

You are so right about the conditioner. That is all that is plugged in the thing is the digital gear. I tried it with my amp, but my bass disappeared into the sunset. It is just fine for all my digital baggage as well.

tubeears November 27, 2013 19:17

If not tried for comparison already, might be worth trying the power conditioner with your source level gear, like DAC, etc. and see if any difference.

Definitely not a good idea to use it with devices that tend to draw a lot of power and current, like the integrated amp.

I have a much more modest Monster PC on my digital source devices and pre-amp and I could tell a nice difference with even that in my case in terms of better detail and clarity.

Each persons power scenario is different though, so its one area where YMMV for sure.

mapman November 26, 2013 15:35

Thanks for the compliment, Pete. Your speakers are in the bedroom (SP-301's). Some of best all around speakers that I have ever Had, even if they are a bit hard to Cary and vacuum around. I actually keep my dots and what rocks that I have in my pants pockets.. I Feel that they may help matters there.. Perhaps a more upward motivation in my low end.

Mapman....
The Jolida is now history. A great little amp. I actually think that the 202 is the Crown Jewel of Jolidas line. You can notice right off that it is of different build criteria than the rest of their amps. Works very well with many speakers. The Magic Box that it is sitting on is a Monster 3600 line conditioner. It was a gift, more or less. It looks pretty and tells me the voltage, but is is really just another King without Clothes folly that makes me look like a REAL Audiophile. Making ten sockets out of one tells me that I may be explaining things or my insurance agent some cold night. It does make a nice place for my cat to sleep on. She just couldn't get comfortable laying over the Jolida.

I will try to get the system edited today.

tubeears November 26, 2013 13:41

I can't help but wonder if the fact that the Speaker's port is blowing low frequency energy directly at those tubes that you might be compromising your sound a little.

That said, I bet your setup sounds nice. I'd love a chance to hear those speakers. They've intrigued me for awhile.

seikosha November 26, 2013 13:35

Sweet.

WHat's the gadget the Jolida tube amp is sitting on?

Just wondering if some physical separation between the two if possible might yield even further positive results.

mapman November 26, 2013 09:47

Don't see any Magic pebbles here either :-)

Nice looking and I bet nice sounding too, congratulations on it.

Good Listening

Peter

pbnaudio November 25, 2013 23:57

System edited: I was talking about the subwOOfer... of course !

tubeears August 29, 2013 19:58

Not wanted.... Or needed.

tubeears August 29, 2013 16:56