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Nope, we are no longer on the top of a mountain overlooking Boulder and Denver. We are in a plain old Eichler-style home in Palo Alto. The pluses are that there are a lot more audiophiles here and this house is similar to that which many audiophiles live in. The minuses are that we are no longer on the top of a mountain overlooking Boulder and Denver.

The living room is a 13 foot by 18 foot room. One wall is all glass (which we love). Yes, there is also a mirror surrounding the fireplace - what can we say, this is a rental.

We started out on Audiogon in 2002(?) with large red Acapella Triolon speakers for our virtual system.  We were dealers then - we are importers now. It is past time for an encore tour :-) We're back on Audiogon... currently with the Acapella Celllini High speakers.  

The hyperspherical horn, plasma tweeter and isobarically supported woofer are so well-integrated that each of these best-in-class most-suitable-for-its-task technologies is able to support its corresponding frequencies without calling attention to itself. 

We are also heavily into Audio Note U.K. We were dealers for many years. Then we were distributors for many years. Then we were dealers. 

As you can see, a 100% Audio Note system plus the XDS1 player. We don't call this the Audio Note room because AN speakers would also work just fine in the larger 13x18 room. In fact later today we are probably moving the Kegon amplifiers and M2 pre [or, not shown, M9 Phono preamplifier] to put them on the Acapella Cellini High speakers in that room.

This will be the ongoing [mis]adventures of a couple of crazy audiophiles who got married. Hope to keep this less serious than the 2248 and counting posts on our blog :-)



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Room Details

Dimensions: 18’ × 13’  Medium
Ceiling: 8’


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    • EMM Labs XDS1 CD / SACD player
    • Audio Note M2 Line Balanced preamplifier
    • Audio Note SORO integrated amplifier
    6L6-based tube amplifier
    • Audio Note AN-E Signature speakers
    • Harmonic Resolution Systems SXR equipment rack
    • Audio Note CDT-Five transport
    • Audio Note DAC 5 Signature
    The miracle worker
    • Acapella Audio Arts LaMusika integrated amplifier
    • Acapella Audio Arts Cellini High loudspeakers
    Hyperspherical horn speaker with plasma ION tweeter and two woofers (one is isobaric)
    • Audio Note (UK) Kegon mono
    • Acapella Audio Arts Campanile
    Full-range horn loadspeaker with Acapella Audio Art ION (plasma) tweeter and 4 x 10 inch bass drivers per speaker.

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Looks the eyes of god. Really nice and refined system Mike.
Doesn't that glass window wall present a problem high efficiency w/ horns?

mjcmt