Description

This is my first reference system, not the very first I put together, but the first one that gave the basics of air, timbre, the soundfield…the very first time the understanding of what it was truly all about hit me. The ProAcs replaced a Larsen6.2 which was originally mated with a Cary Audio 300SEi, PSAudio P3, and Ansuz P2 speaker cables. The replacement setup was my introduction to everything I didn't know music could be, and also everything I quickly found was missing in what true resolution could mean. 

Of note is the fact of sound quality being considerably better with the integrated being taken off its pre, and fed directly from the Hegel DAC for volume control. The improvement to every part of the sound chain takes a threefold leap, with the yardsticks of human voice and piano realism delivered at very high levels.

This system was assembled without any effort by way of room corrections or tweaks other than speaker isolation - the objective was to gauge how close to good sound quality I could get without the benefits gained from better cable isolation, cleaner power draw, and the rest of it.
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Room Details

Dimensions: 12’ × 18’  Medium
Ceiling: 9’


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    • ProAc D30RS
    stock two way floor standers - 89dB sensitivity / 20Hz - 30kHz accurate frequency range - coupled with isoacoustic gaia 2 isolation feet.
    • Larsen 6.2 mini directional speaker (retired)
    • Duelund Coherent Audio v3 silver
    cables wrapped in a cotton dielectric and capped with ETI brio banana connectors
    • Line Magnetic LM845P
    30W SET integrated amplifier - Psvane 45 power tubes / Takatsuki 300B driver tubes / NOS KR Audio 00B driver tubes (90s) / Psvane 10 driver tubes / NOS Telefunken 12AX7 input tubes (80s) / Hifi tuning supreme fuses
    • Cary Audio CAD-300sei (retired)
    With upgraded Sylvania 6SN7 and KR audio 300B tubes.
    • Western Electric NOS braided interconnect cables
    with ETI research brio rhodium-plated banana RCA connectors
    • Hegel HD30 DAC
    stock dual mono 32 bit/192 kHz multilevel sigma-delta / 150 sinad / 0.0005% distortion
    • PS Audio Directstream DAC mk1 senior (retired)
    • PS Audio powerplant 12
    stock
    • PS Audio Stellar Power Plant P3 (retired)
    • Ansuz Acoustics C2 main power cord
    • TP-Link deco M5 AC1300 router system
    stock cables and power supply
    • Ansuz Acoustics X power cable
    for all other unspecified equipment.

Comments 2

Owner
So kind of you to say so, toro ; ) - the amp is actually sitting on the same half inch steel L that the credenza is sitting on - I designed the fixture for this first system without actually knowing how deep i’d get into audiophilism. The second system is vertically stacked, for the best way to coupled and isolate - cables, equipment, shelving, everything.

kevn

What a great picture. Love the look of that Line Magnetic seated perfectly next to the credenza. I could easily waste a weekend listening to music in an environment like that.

toro3

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