Maxgain's system

by maxgain on Budget Minded

Description

Everything in this system is intended to represent strong performance for the money and the result is very pleasing.The image size is very realistic. The system is very smooth, transparent,and alive, with great bass clarity and overall dynamics.It plays to near live levels in my medium sized room. I enjoy it very much! It may be crass to call this a budget system but I just saw Albert Porters system and figured out where I am at.
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    • Kindel Audio Super Phantom
    Classic 3 way using 2, 5 1/4" Audax HM130Z12 high performance Areogel woofers with an 8" passive,Dayton RS52 metal dome mid replaces the original modified 37mm Polydax dome mid, and a Foster E110T samarium cobalt planar tweeter Solen Fast caps in woofer circuit Sand filled mid/tweeter cabinet VH Audio OIMP 10uf in mid circuit
    • Rotel RCD-1072
    a great player for the cash. Mine has the black face plate.
    • Bel Canto Design eVo 200.2
    Gleart sounding class "T" amp tweaked with new Nichicon power supply caps and some other trick parts.
    • Adcom GFP-750
    Line stage on loan until I can complete my Pass DIY, First watt B1 buffer stage.
    • Grover UR 8
    Killer BIG bang for the buck IC's , not in use right now because the Naim has those DIN plugs on the back of the damn thing for inputs
    • Custom Made Vandersteen X-2 clones
    my own hand made fixed X-over filters featuring VH Audio TFTF caps, for vasty improved sound over the factory units which use generic yellow REL caps. Not being used in the rig right now due to having no sub for the time being
    • Furutech FS-301
    14Ga OFC speaker cable replacing the stuff that comes with the 2Wq features deep cryogenic treatment and demagnetization. I dressed it up with some clear tech flex. It sounds much better than the old stuff for not a huge investment. Not being un
    • MIT MI 330
    MI-330 used from tuner
    • Custom Power Cord Co. High value
    on CD2
    • Custom Power Cord Co. model eleven
    used for power amp and line stage. Both have been modded. the line filter caps have been removed to work better with the Alan Maher PE and Furutech ends have been installed.
    • Monster Cable HTS 1000
    Budget conditioner
    • Bright Star Audio Air Mass 3
    2, one under the CD2 and one under the SP9
    • Bright Star Audio Air Mass 2
    Air isolation bass under VT50
    • Vibrapod vibration control feet
    Used under TT using sandwich method with MDF base. Also under sub woofer and between 2Ce's and their stands. total of 20
    • VPI Brick
    2, one on CD2 and one on SP9
    • Billy Bags Pro 30
    Black with Fusion Maple shelves,isolation tips, sand filled, 197 lbs. including sand
    • Billy Bags 2020
    Amp stand under VT 50
    • Oyaide Cryo'd SWO-GX
    This is one hell of an AC outlet. They use extra thick (2 micron) 24K direct Gold plating over high conductivity phospher bronze. The contact surface is thoroughly (twice) polished before each plating process.This thing sounds right. I have the front end plugged into this.
    • Porter Port Cryo treated Hubbell 8300HI
    NASA cryo treated, hospital grade duplex AC receptacles. The amp and sub are fed by this outlet.
    • Nitty Gritty Pro
    wet vac record cleaning machine
    • DIY Sub Woofer Isolation Platform
    DIY Bright Star Big Rock clone. Holds over 60 lbs. of sand.
    • DIY Power Conditioner Isolation Base
    Sand filled isolation platform made to fit Monster HTS 1000
    • FIM(First Impression Music) 305 isolation bearings
    cupped bearing races with 3/8" tungsten carbide balls. Employed under CD palyer.
    • Furutech FI-11M (cu)
    Male AC plug. One replaces the cheap molded plastic plug on the Monster conditioner.
    • Cable Isolators small
    set of eight porcelain ceramic insulators placed under IC's speaker cables and power cables. from cableisolators.com
    • Alan Maher Designs AC Power Enhancer
    Parallel AC noise filter
    • DIY Hammond 193L Choke filter design by Alan Maher
    DIY AC noise filter designed by Alan Maher. This parallel filter is a huge bank for the buck! Thanks very much to Alan for the design.
    • DIY RFI speaker filters
    used across speaker and amp connections 10 ohm resistor in parallel with 0.01uF cap filters out 21 Mgh and above radio hash that contributes to harshness, hardness, and bloated bass.

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Hi Maxgain,
I have Vandy 2ce Sigs that I love. My rig isn't as sophisticated as yours & I'm still learning. (Aren't we all?).
I want to know how many inches from your back wall you kept the rear surfaces of the Vandy. In the latest Stereophile Mag. re. the new Vandy 2ce Sig. II's, appar. RV recommends "about 56 inches". Does this sound correct to you?
Right now I'm just under 4 ft.
Lastly, I'm using I think Monster cable that I purchased at Circuit City, it was cheap. Your speaker cables cost $600 bucks? If there's an advantage I'd like to do it, but it feels like walking into a minefield of speaker cables & interconnects.
Are yours good in the price/performance category?
Duncan

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