Benzmans System

by benzman on
Doowall to outside and hot tub
Gas fireplace. Saved my ass during the last power outage!
Grab a cocktail and have a seat!!
Waterside deck
Outdoor bar and grill
Hop up in the Tequila chairs !!

Description

The room makes all the difference. This was a converted garage that the ceiling was popped to 10ft   Double 5/8 drywall with green glue makes the room extremely quiet  . 3 dedicated 20 amp circuits, 1 dedicated 15.  Hidden Treasure outlets. 
Still tweaking the sub system and just getting a feel of everything coming together. 
Low back seating makes it very comfortable and really sounds great in any position in the room. Of course the sweet spot is always the sweetest.   Looking for something that I can cover the 85” Sony 900 H but certainly do not want to give up the immersive Video  for a bit of SQ. 
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Room Details

Dimensions: 27’ × 17’  Large
Ceiling: 10’

Components Toggle details

    • Melco N1a Ex H60
    Now using this as a Server/Streamer instead of just an Nas. Sounds pretty,pretty good feeding the T+A Dac 200  Enjoying the benefit of the Melco’s filtering and the EtherRegen in the chain.
    • T+A DAC 200
    Really an outstanding Dac I was a little concerned about a lot of chatter that you had to feed it High rate DSD to get its best. While I don’t know if that’s true as the best I can feed it I DSD 64 from ripped files but streaming Tidal and Qobuz and red book files sound fantastic. A nice step up from the Bricasti M3 streaming Dac.
    • Coda CSiB
    Class A to 18 watts.
    • Borresen X3
    • Puritan Audio Labs PSM 156
    Everything including the Coda is  plugged into the Puritan. Great value!!
    • Townshend Audio Seismic Isolation Podiums
    • Audio Kinesis Swarm sub system
    As seen in Absolute sound . These are the actual 4 subs. Custom painted. Twin 1,000 mono amps
    • Uptone EtherRegen
    Network switch
    • Farad Super 3 LPS
    Bumped up the EtherRegen a notch. Level 2 copper DC cable.
    • Iconoclast by Belden 4x4 gen 2 UPOCCC XLR
    What a cable.
    • Townshend Audio Fractal F1 speaker cables
    Crazy good cables. Everything you want   Layering, texture, stage.
    • Townshend Audio Seismic Isolation Pods
    Have these under everything.
    • Stillpoints LLC Ultra Minis
    Footers
    • OPPO 103
    Add a little video in the mix
    • Sony 85 ‘’ 4K led
    You Tube sounds pretty damn good thru the system. To hold people’s attention sometimes you have to add video.

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@milpai 
Just got the Dac 200 last night but really loving it. A nice step up fro the Bricasti M3 ( as well it should as it’s 1100  more with no network card )
Sounds great with everything from Redbook and DSD files to streaming Qobuz or Tidal. Using a Wireworld Platinum Starlight 7 USB cable so not sure how that ranks with higher end cables. 
Very refined sound,really wide stage. The Personas with their Beryllium midrange and tweeters can be tough to match a Dac with but this seems like pretty good one. 
I can’t imagine anyone not liking this Dac. Up and running in minutes with advanced features for the tweaker.  Hopefully this gets me off the Dac merry go round.  

benzman

Owner
Previously I had Bob Grost make a power strip for me out of his Cerious Technologies Graphene Matrix cable. When I got the Puritan I did not need the power strip so he terminated with a C19 20 amp plug. 
Big jump from the stock cord. It’s the only other cable I tried but any high quality PC would be an improvement. ( including Puritans own upgraded cable)

benzman

Owner
All Benjamin Moore paints
The ceiling is Silver Dollar
Walls are Metropolitan
The Barn Doors and subwoofers are Windy City. 
The Trim is from Sherwin Williams. I will have to check on the name 
Thanks for the kind words. 

benzman

Owner
Thanks Dan, I think the podiums where my single biggest tweak. Not really a tweak but should be a necessity!!

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