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Talon Phoenix

Description

This is my current reference system. It's finally set up again. The room is quite good. It's treated with some absorption panels RPG, Hemifusors and Skylines and variscreens. There are broadband helmhotz resonators hidden in the front of the room. Ceiling diffusion using RPG Hemifusors are in. Ceiling is painted black and walls in a medium grey.
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Room Details

Dimensions: 23’ × 17’  Large
Ceiling: 9’

Components Toggle details

    • Levinson No 37
    Mark Levinson # 37 Transport
    • Levinson No 360S
    Levinson No 360S DAC
    • VPI Industries TNT-2.5
    VPI TNT 2.5
    • Graham Phantom II B
    Graham Phantom II B tonearm
    • Air Tight PC-1 Coda
    Medium output moving coil cartridge
    • Aesthetics Rhea Signature
    Fabulous phono stage.
    • Levinson No-380s
    Levinson No 380s
    • Rives Audio PARC
    Rives Audio PARC 3 band parametric EQ
    • VAC 15/30
    12 Watt 300B power. Glorious sound for the mid/tweeter. The bass is driven by the internal amplifier.
    • Talon Loudspeakers Phoenix Active
    Phoenix loudspeaker with active crossover and built in Parametric EQ and 500 watt bass amplifier. Perfect match for the 300 B tube amplifiers!
    • Shunyata Research Hydra and Anaconda
    All amps and source equipment go through these, each is on a separate circuit.
    • Kubala-Sosna Emotion
    Emotion interconnects througout the system.
    • Enlightened Audio Design Theatermaster Ovation
    EAD DTS and Dobly Digital processor.
    • Talon Audio Thunderbird (2)
    Incredible Passive Subwoofer. The best I've found so far. There are 2 in the system for theater, only one is used in 2 channel mode.
    • Classe Audio 70
    Rear channel stereo amplifier
    • Classe Audio 10
    Amplifier for Subwoofer. Solid state 100 Watts.
    • Rives Audio sub-PARC (2)
    Crossover, parametric eq, and amplifier for subwoofers. Switches automatically for Theater and Music modes
    • Talon Loudspeakers Hawk
    Reference monitor. Used for surrounds in this system. Shown on matching stand.
    • Sony VPL VW600ES
    4K projector
    • Stewart Filmscreen Studiotek 130
    retractable screen

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Richard, I didn't realize you'd made all these changes! (No more 20.5's ?) Now it's time to do something about that Frog. Good as it is, it's not up to the rest anymore IMO, especially for someone with a vinyl fetish ;-) I'm sure you're thinking about it . . . . . . .

Neil
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