-Modified Pathos Acoustics TT RR (Dueland Cast PIO Tinned Copper & Mundorf silver/gold/oil caps), Vishay Z-foil resistors; vintage Alps "Black Beauty" volume pot; Stage III Concepts and Dueland tinned copper hookup wire, Bybee Music Rails, Yamamoto teflon tube sockets, etc. Upgraded (Eton woofers, Fostex FT96-EX2 tweeters, rewiring with Stage III Concepts and Dueland tinned copper wire) Bache Audio Metro 001 speakers with optional 3/4" bamboo cabinet and upgraded crossover; Isoacoustics Gaia footers. Modwright Marantz SA8005 SACD/CD player with 1950's Tungsol long black plate 5687 tubes, on Seismic Sink and Dalby Lignum Vitae feet; GEC U52 5U4G rectifier in Modwright PS 9.0 power supply; Verastarr GI speaker cables; Townshend Fractal F1 interconnects; Verastarr GI III HC, Hemingway Z-Core Beta, Echole Omnia, and Lessloss Entropic AC cables. Bybee Stealth AC conditioner, dedicated (JPS Labs in wall wire) 20A line and breaker box, Oyaide R-1 outlet, and EP-2050 on main panel.
I hear added clarity/reduction in the noise floor, and a small increase in soundstage width as a result of going from spikes on the outriggers to the Gaia II feet. However my motivation for the change wasn't just the sonics. After damage to the floor and a puncture in my right thigh as a result of accidents while moving the 85 lbs each Merlins with the spikes on, my better half insisted that I find an alternative.
