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Room Details

Dimensions: 26’ × 19’  Large
Ceiling: 9’


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    • Taiko Audio SGM Extreme
    Server // Player
    • T+A Elektroakustik SDV 3100 HV
    Streamer-DAC-Preamplifier
    • Found Music / Scott Sheaffer 2A3 4-Chassis (2021 build)
    2A3 monoblock tube amplifiers with tube power supplies (~3 watt)
    • Cube Audio Nenuphar V1
    F10 Neo Full Range Triple Whizzer Single Driver speaker with TQWT (quarter wave) Enclosure.
    • T+A Elektroakustik PA 3100 HV
    Integrated Amplifier
    • Synergistic Research Galileo PowerCell SX w/ SRX power cable
    Power Conditioner // Supply
    • Synergistic Research Galileo SX Ground Block
    SX HD Grounding Cables
    • PI Audio Group UberBUSS
    Passive Power Supply
    • Keces P8
    Linear Power Supply
    • HDPLEX 200 Watt
    Linear Power Supply
    • HDPLEX 100 Watt
    Linear Power Supply
    • ADD-POWR Sorcer x4
    Conditioner and more...
    • Akiko Audio Corelli
    Passive Power Conditioner
    • Furutech GTX-D NCF R Duplex / Wall Frame / Outlet Cover
    • Synergistic Research SRX Power Cable
    System Power Cable Loom
    • Triode Wire Labs The Obession NCF PC
    Secondary Power Cable Loom
    • Ghent Audio DC-4S6G / DC-J01 / Others
    For DC Powered Networked Components
    • Todd Verrone Custom DC Cable
    • SOtM dCBL-CAT7 > iSO-CAT6 Filter > dCBL-CAT7
    LAN Chain ( Router > Server)
    • Synergistic Research Galileo SX LAN Cable
    (Satellite > Taiko Audio SGM Extreme)
    • Synergistic Research Galileo SX USB Cable
    Taiko Audio SGM Extreme > T+A SDV 3100 HV
    • Found-Music / Scott Sheaffer Conductor 2112
    Silver Single Ended IC
    • Found-Music / Scott Sheaffer E+ SC
    Speaker Cable
    • Townshend Audio Seismic Isolation Podiums
    For Cube Audio Nenuphar Speakers
    • Eden Sound Brass Spikes
    For Cube Audio Nenuphar Speakers
    • Synergistic Research Tranquility Base XL UEF
    Isolation Platform
    • TAOC Rack Systems Isolation Platform
    • Ingress Audio Engineering Level 3 v2 RollerBlocks
    • HeadAmp Audio Electronics GS-X Mk2
    Headphone Amplifier
    • Focal Utopia Headphones
    • HiFi Man HE-1000 V1 Headphones
    • Danacable Lazuli Reference Headphone Cable
    • Emission Labs 2A3
    Solid Plate
    • JJ Electronic 2A3-40
    • Sophia Electric Princess 2A3 Mesh Plate
    • Verastarr Audio Grand Illusion Signature Series Silver
    Custom IC (Balanced, Pin 3 Floated > Single Ended)

Comments 16

Owner
Sorry for the multiple posts...I received an error message when I posted each.

david_ten

Owner

@sbayne Scott, you'll have to drop by. : )

I've been addressing the system around the edges, so to speak. Major efforts on the power side. The TV is wall mounted and has opened up significant 'cubic' space. The Router/Satellite has contributed to moving the SQ / overall performance upwards. A new rack is inbound.

I'll post photos after the rack arrives.

david_ten

Owner
@sbayne Scott, you'll have to drop by. : )

I've been addressing the system around the edges, so to speak. Major efforts on the power side. The TV is wall mounted and has opened up significant 'cubic' space. The Router/Satellite has contributed to moving the SQ / overall performance upwards. A new rack is inbound.

I'll post photos after the rack arrives.

david_ten

Owner
@sbayne   Scott, you should drop by. : )

I've made changes around the periphery, so to speak; especially on the power side. TV is wall mounted. Router/Satellite has also moved SQ upwards. 

A new audio 'rack' is inbound. 

I'll post photos, once the system is on the new rack.

david_ten

Just checking-in David. I can almost "hear" your system just by looking at it. Very well thought-out. Congrats!

sbayne

Owner
@kevn   Email response sent.

david_ten

Hello David, my name is kevin and I wanted to ask you a question about your nenuphars, and could not think of any other way to ask this - I hope you don’t mind. From everything I’ve read, your nenuphar seems to be the next speaker I’m looking for - the thing is this: with all the speakers I’ve ever heard, I’ve realised the one kinds sounds most difficult to get right are also on opposite ends of the spectrum - the piano, and full orchestral music. It is difficult enough to find a speaker to do all the others right, but these two are difficult to get at unless huge dollars are paid for. I found these qualities in the tekton moab, the piano on which is actually almost better than speakers costing five times as much. But the problem with the moabs is that they don’t quite do intimate well - the human voice especially, feels weak in relation to the best Britain offers. My question is this - with your somewhat similar experience with the double impacts, do you find the nenuphars having that special weight to the timbre of the piano, the way the moabs have? And in relation to orchestral music - will the nenuphars have a scale approaching that of the DI’s? I don’t expect a smaller speaker to do orchestral with the same aplomb as the monster that the moabs are, but piano will be my dealbreaker : ) - I do not worry in the least regarding the human voice for the nenuphars, which I am sure are exemplary. Once again, please excuse me for this intrusion, and I look forward to your reply - you can email me at [email protected] - thanks so much - kevin

kevn

Owner
Loving it! : )

david_ten

How are you enjoying the Cube Audio Nenuphar?

exlibris

Owner
SoTM iso-CAT6 filter and 'Black' LAN cable - Added.

Ghent Audio GX16-2 to USB C DC cable from HDPLEX 100W LPS to Router - Added.

Small Green Computer sonicTransporter i7 Roon DSP Server - Replaces - Small Green Computer sonicTransporter AP Server/Ripper/Storage

david_ten

Owner
Most of my system components and peripherals are now listed.

Thanks again to Scott for the motivation to make it 'virtually' live.

david_ten

Owner
Hi Alan. Yes, an absolutely wonderful experience!!! You have a superb group of folks in the Audio Society. Thank you so much for reaching out and including me.

Thanks also for your kind comments about the console. It's from Standmount Designs.

I posted the second pic to help with a question regarding footers in the Tekton Double Impacts thread. The Tekton Design Double Impacts are to the left and the Special Edition is to the right. I need to post more photos and will in the near future.

david_ten

Looking good David!  I’ve already got a better feel for your system. Didn’t realize you have a SR Powercell 12.  Very nice.

sbayne

Hi David,

Wonderful to get together last Sat. over at RG's. What a lesson in budget audio, eh.

Checking out your two pix I would first like to say what a beautiful console you have there for support of your electronics. Secondly, in the last image there appears to be another speaker to the left of the DI yet no second pair of speakers is in your equipment listing. What's the story there?

acresverde

Owner
Room is currently untreated (waiting for the last stages of renovation to be completed). Room, as is, is naturally well balanced though it leans live. First treatments will focus on bass.

david_ten

Owner
Thanks to @sbayne for encouraging to me post my system. Photos and additional details to follow.

david_ten

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