Not an ideal room by any means. Any devices mentioned under my system tweeks are those that were tried and made an improvement in my system/room and therefore remained in place. Many other tweeks have come and gone.
Pairs beautifully with the power amp. Not the highest in the Krell preamp lineup of the 90’s but synergy matters lol
Krell KSA-250s Power Amplifier
(Mostly) Class Amplifier produces tight, IMPACTFUL bass, neutral mid range and open air/detail; neither bright nor fatiguing.
Sonic Frontiers SFP-1 Signature phono preamp
MC/MM tubed phono preamp with Mullard 6JD8 (1963 date code, Blackburn UK factory) and Mullard 12AT7 (1968 date code, Blackburn UK)
Yamaha PF 800
Turntable
Benz Micro Glide M2
Medium output (.9v) moving coil cartridge.
Innuous Zen Mini Mkii
Use Ipeng to control the server from Ipad. Zen is connected to the network by Kasimo CAT8 ethernet cable. I use the Zen as a server for my 1600 cd’s as well a streamer for Qobuz. It is powered by an Sbooster BOTW mkII LPS.
Ayre Acoustics QB-9 DSD
USB dac
Bada HD-26
Top loading mechanism with fully balanced tubed output, single ended tubed output and a set of solid state single ended outputs.
Tascam 34b
Open Reel Deck
Hales Design Group Revelation 3
Floor standing speakers
Elac Sub 3010
Triple threat. Inexpensive subs add just the right amount of air movement. The trio provides smooth, fast bass. Not ultra low but even/flat throughout my room.
Wireworld Silver Eclipse
Speaker cables
Wireworld Equinox 7 RCA
Single ended interconnects all around
WireWorld Equinox 7 XLR
Balamced interconnects from dac to preamp
Wireworld Starlight 8
USB cable from streamer to dac
Ice Age power cables all around Copper/copper cryo treated cable
Power cables for all components. Switched from WireWorld Electra.
System Tweeks
* Four dedicated 10 gauge 20 amp power lines to listening
room
* Two Shakti Stones (one for tube phono stage, one for the Pre)
* Three sets Final Labs Daruma 3ii bearing isolation cups (under phono stage, dac and streamer/server)
* Tekna Sonic C10 resonance control, 1 per speaker
* Tekna Sonic C12 resonance control, 1 per subwoofer
* Isoacoustic Gaia II speaker isolator/footers
* Schumann Resonators (2)
* SBooster BOTW mkII LPSU for the Zenmini
* MIT Z-Plug parallel power filter
* Auralex Subdude II under each sub
* Diffusers
* Owens Corning based absorption panels
* Auralex bass traps front and rear corners of
room
* KAB Strobe Scope for adjusting turntable speed if necessary
Very nice setup. I see that you have a Tascam 34B Reel to Reel. I have an opportunity to purchase one for $500.00. I have a very large record collection and I want to record a lot of them on to tape. After doing a little research the Tascam does not have an input & output volume control. I have a bedroom setup and I am using a Rogue Sphinx V3 integrated amplifier. What would I need to get it to setup correctly. Years ago, I owned a Teac and it had an input and output that you would connect to the tape in and tape out to my Mcintosh 1700 receiver.
