My 2-channel Rock System (Comment Please)

by jamiec001 on Opinions Please

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Well, as you can see I do not have an unlimited amount of money to spend on building my system, the total cost is probably no more than $6000, which some would consider budget, but me being only 14, that is a ****load of money to me. But, to my ears it is beautiful :) It saves me from the worries of life. When I listen to it, im in my happy place. And most importantly, it gets me up playing air guitar every time I listen.

Anyway, my goal was to create a musical, powerful, dynamic, and emotionally involving system. One that grips your soul. One whos bass makes the house shudder. One who can rock so hard the the windows break, and still sound incredible while doing it. One with balls-against-the wall SPL. But also one that can tiptoe gently across any classical recording or jazz recording.

I mostly listen to classic rock, new rock, hell, any rock will do. I just love rock (with the exception of heavy metal, which I hate).

To my ears I accomplished my goal. I just wanted to know what the audiophile capital of the world though of my system.

Anything I should upgrade? Change? Get rid of?

Did I make a good system for the money in your opinion?

Whats my weakest link?

Thanks for the comments! Any constructive critizism (sp?) welcome.

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Breakdown of sepreate components:

-Audio Aero Prima CD: I payed $700 for this CD player, in my opinion it was worth MUCH more. The sound that it makes my system produce is just beautiful. Open and airy. But it is hard to describe the sound of this player because when you listen to it, you dont focus on details, you just let the music wash over you. I dont know about you guys, but I prefer it like that :)

Odyssey Audio Tempest\Stratos dual mono combo: All I can say about this amp\preamp combo is WOW! The power, slam, dynamics, clarity, timbre, neutrality, SOUNDSTAGE, imaging. Its all just so good, especially for this price, at any price, its a bargain! Only downside is it sucks 120 amps of current, now I have to hear my mom yell about the electric bill *rolls eyes*

Definitive Technology BP-7004's: Well, that one day that fate brought these into my hands, Ill tell you about it. I headed down to the dealer with my dad, looking for some speakers to spend my hard earned cash on. I auditioned some B&W's, Paradigms, Martin Logans, Totems, Polks, Sonus Fabers, and then....the Definitives. After hearing all those other breands, I was just shocked by this one. It was so fun, full of life, to me it was the closest thing to a real life performance you can get. So I bought them, simple as that :)

Ridge Street Cables: They helped me a very lot in my quest to achive a live sound, they are extremely musical, emotional, full, and accurate. After replacing these with my audience Conductors, I noticed an immeadite inprovement in liveliness, clearity, soundstage, and image sharpness. Robert is also a great guy to deal with!

Monster Cable (I know...I hate them too) HTS-5100 Signature Power Conditioner: BUT, one thing monster does do good is power conditioners. Not much to say, I hooked it up, I made a long term investment into my systems life span. I also heard some increase in clarity and depth. Also a bit more powerful and punch sound. Hey, it does what its supposed to, it cleans....power.

SVS 20-39 PCi: Wow, what a sub. The volume this thing puts out is incredible, while still maintaining accuracy and tightness. It also dosent overpower the mids and highs, its a perfect blend with the Definitive Techs built in powered subs. Worth every penny.

That about sums it up, I might add this is a beautiful looking system, all black, tall, slim towers. Wet black brushed metal amplifier with blue light up logo, same with preamp. Matching CD Player and Power conditioner. Not to mention cool looking cables and IC's.

Will have pics soon.

Again, please comment! :) Thanks for looking! Let me know what you think.
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Components Toggle details

    • Audio Aero Prima CD (Original)
    Original Audio Aero Prima cd Player.
    • Odyssey Audio Tempest
    Stock Odyssey Audio Tempest in beautiful Wet-Black
    • Odyssey Audio Stratos Dual Mono
    Odyssey Stratos Dual-Mono in full wet-black
    • Definitive Technology BP-7004
    3-way floorstander with built in powered subs. Most fun you can have with a speaker
    • Ridge Street Audio MSE Gen.II XLR\RCA
    XLR between amp and preamp and RCA between preamp and CD Player
    • Ridge Street Audio MSE Gen.II Speaker Cable
    Extremely fun and musical.
    • Monster Cable HTS-5100 Signautre
    One of monsters only good products, their power conditioners
    • SV Subwoofers 20-39 PCi
    Incredible volume. Musical. Detailed. What more do you want for $600?

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Owner
Update: I will be upgrading my speakers soon

jamiec001

Great job; it's a nice system for anyone, let alone a 14 year old. Rock on little dude!

brimac

Owner
No im not a straight A student...Maybe its just that I dont care about school work nearly as much as my system. Haha. But yeah I dont plan on changing my speakers for a while, until another speaker can create that lager than life image that the Def Techs create. People say it sound unrealisitic, to me its the most real sound you can get under $20,000. But to each their own, thanks for the comments.

jamiec001

Man...for a 14 year old you sure have done your research...and I wouldn't hesitate to assume that you are a straight A student just from reading your post. You are gonna be light years ahead of your friends in a couple years when they are all dumping their $'s into car stereo systems that will never hold a candle to your home system...maybe you'll be able to teach them a thing or two and convince them that home audio is the way to go and that car audio is a waste. If only someone had done that for me at your age...anyhow...welcome to the Gon...it's nice to see the younger folk here...can't wait for the pics...now turn off that stereo and do your homework...haha...or is it the other way around.

Ellery

ellery911

The room is the most important part of any system. Without knowing the size, shape and materials in the room, and the system location in the room, there is no way of judging if your system will sound good. You can have the best components and put them in a bad room and it will sound awful. The opposite is also true. Very modest components in a room that is tuned to work with that system will sound amazing. Learn more about making your room work with your system and you will have incredible sound.
But it seems like you mostly want your your room to shake and shudder with monstrous bass and high SPL's. You can do that pretty cheap though. So for what you want want, I think you spent way too much money.
If, and it's a very important if, you have a large room, around 500 SF, then you could buy a used pair of Klipsch Forte II's, a Jolida tubed integrated of about 20 watts and a decent DVD player, all for about $1500 and you would have that kind of system. But you HAVE to have a very large room for the Klipsch to do what it can do. In a small to medium sized room they will sound fair at best. In a very large room they will sound HUGE! I heard the Forte II's playing an organ piece in a very large room once and the sound reminded me of what I once heard in a massive cathedral. The bass vibrated this large room. The tonal quality was perfect also. I had a pair once in a 250 SF room and the sound was terrible. I couldn't believe it was the same speaker.
Now don't get all upset. You asked for opinions. Of course the thing about opinions is that everybody has one. But really the most important thing is that YOU enjoy your system. From what you wrote, it appears that you do. So have fun.

makersmark

Owner
This, belive it or not is my first system. If you want to count my JVC shelf system I guess you could hehe. I kind of got myself into audio, I just love it, everything about it. I will post pictures soon, changing out my extremely ugly desk for a nice one, then pics. :) Thanks for the comments.

jamiec001

wow, i've only been coming to audigon for a couple months now and have learned so much just by watching what other people do to their systems. im 35 years old and am just now getting into the higher end stuff. you on the other hand have a fantastic head start. who got you into the good stuff? what was your first system and how old were you then? i would be surprised if the audio world doesn't see you involved in some way in years to come.
take care
todd

clevelandhifi

Your presentation is very impressive, with a way of expressing your enthusiasm which is contagious.
Have only heard your Odyssey Audio preamp, and amp, performing superbly in one of that company's pre-packaged, super value, mailorder systems. With all of the self-powered bass in your speakers, the amp is practically loafing.
My recommendation for universal, low cost tweaking would be to try either Walker Audio's SST Contact Enhancer, or Mapleshade Record's SilClear Contact Enhancer, both worthy of all caps titles. Without altering the sonic signature of your system, enjoy the surprise of optimizing those qualities you find thrilling.
Welcome to Club Audiogon :>)

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