- Rockport Technologies Cygnus Loudspeakers
Newest Rockport/Andy Payer design. Exceptional build quality, custom drivers, new tweeter wave guide. Fantastic bass - tuneful, textured and detailed, yet fast and extended. Palpable midrange with great image density and texture. Smooth extended and extremely 'open' highs with great decay and ambience/space retrieval. Sound staging with 3D images even in the back portion of soundstage. Great macro and micro dynamics. Overall, realism of soundstage is so believable its spooky. Cant find a fault with them with the exception that one must be extremely patient with set up - it pays off big time though!
Interconnects XLR and RCA
single wired
- Billy Bags Turntable Stand
VPI Aries 3 and SDS on stand
Record cleaner
- ASC Tube traps, bass traps, wall traps
ASC tube traps, wall traps and bass traps
Walls built with ASC tube trap wall damping system (see system description for details).
TW Acustic Raven AC-1. Great turntable. Build is fantastic. Images rock solid, great harmonics and decay. Very musical. Black backgrounds.
TW 10.5 tonearm. Great build, Nimble and tracks great. Joy to use. Gets every bit of data from the grooves.
- Silent Running Audio Ohio XL Isobase
Custom built Ohio XL Isobase for the TW-Acustic Raven AC. Great product and great isolation, No noise floor what so ever!
- TW Acustic Black Knight Feet
Tope of the line TW Acustic Black Knight Feet for turntable.
- HRS Analog Disk Center Weight
Great and effective center weight from HRS.
- Gingko Acrylic Turntable Cover
Effective turntable cover from Gingko
- REL Acoustics Gibraltor G1
Seamless integration with the Avalons to get the last few 20-25 Hz bottom end in my room.
CD/SACD/DAC. Great for streaming with Apple TV or other device.
- Audio Research Reference Phono 2 SE
Fantastic tube phono stage. Super quiet with all the benefits of tubes. All the reviews are right - super refined and detailed with incredible flexibility.
- Audio Research Reference 250 Monoblocks
Super quiet, fast and detailed. Great bass control far surpassing most tube amps that I have experienced. Best of solid state and best of tubes in these amps!
REF 5se preamp. Great dynamics, bloom, ambience and texture. Phenomenal detail. A powerhouse preamp with finesse.
Added diffusers to room to balance absorption and diffusion.
- TW Acustic TW Turntable mat
New TW turntable mat - custom for TW tables
Dynavector XV-1T. Big step up from XV-1s.
- Avalon Acoustics Eidolon Diamond
Incredible sound and synergy with Rowland and Cardas, great with almost all types of music, fantastic holography, soundstaging, air around images and very musical
- Silver Circle Audio TCHAIK 6 and Vesuvius IIE Power Cord
Fantastic non-current limiting power conditioner
- Billy Bags Design Three Level Rack and Amp Stands
- TW Acustic Black Knight Platter / Bearing upgrade for Raven AC
Great upgrade, more air, transparency and even lower noise floor than what I already had which is amazing.
- TW Acustic Three Motor Pod upgrade
Similar to the Black Knight motor - speed stability is now spot on at 33.3 or 45.0 RPM without variation. Better pitch, PRAT and deeper and tighter bass. Great upgrade.
- Air Tight Opus -1 Cartridge
- Silver Circle Audio Tchaik 6
- Miyajima Labs Zero Mono Cartridge