The latest changes have now satisfied my need to build the ultimate surround system. Sure its possible to better this system, but at what cost. I have less than $7.5k into this system. It's possible that I may add a sub at some point, but I do not seem to miss it at the moment. The TMREQ program of the AV-192R makes this solution almost sonically perfect. I have no particular desire to go high def and sonically BluRay would be a downgrade because the Tag bypasses the equalization when using analogue bi-pass mode. Makes sense. Am I happy - you bet!
The best sounding pre/pro period. Digital 8 channel room equalization is unbelievable.
Infinity Kappa 9
Tremendous Main speakers. These have been completely refurbished from the drivers to the crossover. 4 x 12
Threshold SA-2 Class A mono-blocks
Great center channel amp
Infinity Kappa 6
I use 3 of these, for the rears and center channel. A perfect match for the fronts. Emit tweaters are very tough to match their sound and speed.
Threshold S-300 sII
This amp drives the rear surround channel speakers. It had the power supplies rebuilt before I bought it and had Cardas binding posts installed. Slight overkill for the rears but.....
Apple iTunes with Airport Express
While this setup is not without some quirkiness at times, when it works (which is most of the time) the sound quality is definitely superior to using a CD transport. I use the processing horsepower of the Tag to decode the optical connection from the Airport Express. An Ipod Touch for a remote is the final piece that makes this setup way cool as far as my daughter thinks! WiFi 1TB harddrive handles the storage of 400+ CD's at full resolution.
Pioneer Elite DV 79
Wow great sound and vision
PS Audio xTreme Transcendent
All interconnects. Solid silver, lossless sound, just magic.
. Kappa 9. YESSSSS! The Kappa 9 is a great speaker and greatly underapreciated. Once you biamp them, they become a totally different speaker altogether. Congrats on your system. *
System edited: Never thought that losing 400w/ch would sound so good. But swapping the S/500's for the SA/2's has improved the sound tremendously. Now finding a place for the S/500's... well I guess my Infinity Renaissance 90's need more power!
Nice system and lots of Threshold gear. Saw you answering a thread were a guy had a pair of SA/12's but did not now what the bias should be. You also mentioned that taking of the cover will alter the biasreading. I have a pair of SA/1 (actually S/1000 Series II modified to massive parallel configuration making it a SA/1) and experience the same problem. I know what the bias should be but every time I try to set it at 125 mV with a open top and back (otherwise I can't reach the very unergonomically one turn 5K Bourns biastrimmer, I will substitude this trimmer with a Spectrol multiturn) it goes down to approx. 35 mV (over one of the 1.3 Ohm emitterresistor) with the amp closed and warmed up for a couple of hours. Any suggestions? Maybe the Spectrol multiturn pot will help but I think the high gain FETS on the audioboard are the problem.
System edited: Bi-amped front speakers, 8 channel digital room equalization, Infinity RS 9 Kappa main speakers... maybe yours is better but I no longer can hear the difference. All out assault... oh yah baby!
System edited: Changes, changes. I finally upgraded my pre/pro to something worthy of an audiophile system and my advice to anyone sitting on the fence about doing something similar. Just do it! (apologies to Nike)
