My room is dedicated, 15 ft wide, 21 feet long and 9 foot ceiling. Walls built custom with ASC tube traps wall damping system and double sheetrocked with 2x6 studs on 8 inch centers. Surrounding damping in room with ASC tube traps, base traps and wall traps. The room is exceedingly quiet with minimal audible reflections. The system has great synergy between components and by my ear offers the best qualities of 'tube like' sound with the best qualities of solid state.
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!
Cardas Golden Reference
Interconnects XLR and RCA
Cardas Golden Reference
single wired
Billy Bags Turntable Stand
VPI Aries 3 and SDS on stand
VPI Industries HW 16.5
Record cleaner
ASC Tube traps, bass traps, wall traps
ASC tube traps, wall traps and bass traps
ASC Wall Damping System
Walls built with ASC tube trap wall damping system (see system description for details).
TW Acustic Raven AC - 1
TW Acustic Raven AC-1. Great turntable. Build is fantastic. Images rock solid, great harmonics and decay. Very musical. Black backgrounds.
TW Acustic Raven 10.5
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.
Marantz SA-8004
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!
Audio Research REF 5 se
REF 5se preamp. Great dynamics, bloom, ambience and texture. Phenomenal detail. A powerhouse preamp with finesse.
Auralex Q Diffusers
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
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.
Looking at your system and room again....love the way it looks and the gear you've assembled; you must be extremely happy with the overall sound and total listening experience. You are very fortunate to be able to build out and tune this room to your liking! Did you try other bass traps and wall tuning items before deciding on ASC? What led you to your final choice of the ASC? Thanks in advance for your help!
Thanks Phil...very much appreciated! I've been through several very good conditioners. This is the best I've used in my system. The article should be out this fall from what I am told....
Phil...the Bybee Stealth just arrived, fully broken in as it is the unit that will be the subject of a forthcoming review on 6moons; after a day or so to warm up and settle in, I can tell you that for my system, it's a game-changer, nothing less. I've posted some comments on my system thread and elsewhere but suffice it to say it brings a purity and tube-like presentation to the sound-staging, imaging and overall musicality of the system that I've not been able to experience to date as happy as I was with the system.
Still marveling at your system...for vinyl, it must be hard to break away from that combination of gear, cables and treatments. I'm in the Northwest corner of SC; if you are ever close, let me know, you are welcome for a listen!
Thank you Sir...you should be very proud of that system, Avalons are one hell of a speaker and the rest of your gear sums up to one great experience from what I've heard. I may send a couple of questions your way soon. The AERIS are an amazing system and in this room with the new panel and circuit components I just put in sounds even more lifelike and musical. I have a Bybee Stealth fully loaded conditioner on the way by next Tuesday which should be another step up so I am very excited....
Beautiful system!!! I can only imagine how great it must sound. I have a somewhat similar new room (in terms of approximate size and orientation plus the slopping room contour for me on only 1 side. How did you determine what treatments were needed and which particular units did you go with from Auralex? Also....that appears to be the largest bass trap I've ever seen; how did you determine you needed one that large and the unique position it seems to occupy (versus off towards the corners, etc...)? Thank you!
