After 5 years, this is my current system. I converted the garage to the listening room with all acoustic treatment inside the wall.
The room has a bar with all the nice wines, finest cognac and the most exotic cigarrs. With more than 1000 records and around 5-600 cds, they are doing a great job taking me away from daily works and stress. It's pure heaven for me now!
Great since I need it for both CD and DVD (only music)
Stax x1t
Tube DAC, using 2 ECC83 12AX7. Have 3 power chords, 2 for the channels and 1 for main power suply. The most natural sounding DAC I'ever heard. Digital begin to sound like Analog. Serious!
Clearaudio Champion Level II
With Gingko platform and dust cover.
Clearaudio Tangent Linear Tracking
Just upgrade to this from Unify Pivot
zyx airy 2
high output!
Tom Evans The Groove
Still setup, currently dealing with hum... :(
Emotive Audio Sira-LE
My favorite piece. Beautiful to look at and sound wonderful. I used the 275 Sophia output tube.
Mastersound Reference 845
Single ended 40w/chanel. Italian design, sound wonderful. Two 845 tubes per side.
SAP J2001 MkII
Handcraft Italian horn speakers. These are amazing for their size.
Nordost, Siltech & Virtual Dynamic top of the line
all mix/match interconnect, Vahalla speaker cable.
Hydra 8 (original) PS Audio high current
The room has dedicate power lines.
Symposium Rollerblocks
I have these rollerblocks under my preamp and the phono pre. It does make a different. All the tube "cling" are gone. Wonderful!
SAP speaker stand Special for the J2001
The speakers are floating on these wonderful stand.
I love your eclectic mix of gear and the room. The room seems to transport me to some lost Southeast Asia dwelling, and the Buddhas simply accentuate that feeling. The plants are nice. Definetly relaxing and I bet, the sound is not wimp neither. This garage of your must be somewhere down South.
Yes Raytheprinter, it's a very relaxing room dedicate to all the hard working day. I do need to balance my soul with some nice Mahler, Smetana, SUK.. etc. This room totally help me to balance my life.
I used to have the Art Audio Jota BX which deliver 25w/channel. The sound of the Jota (single ended) is fantastic, clean, smooth and detail. However for big orchestra such as Bruckner, Stravinsky etc. I somehow feel the need for more power. The VAC Ren. 70/70 Signature deliver 70 watts in push pull create the perfect orchestra sound for my system. It gives me a much fuller sound with a larger soundstage. It's a push pull, but the sound is very clean and similar to my Jota single ended. I actually have -5db feedback to tame down the high and it works better.
