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Did away with a home theater set up a few years ago to get back to the music. I wanted to simpify, choosing equipment for its musicality. After changing some things and upgrading others, I believe that I am there, but this is always open for discussion. I listen to a lot of blues and acoustic jazz, along with some Sinatra and a whole lot of Allman Brothers. This system seems to do everything well. I am considering an upgrade with my speaker cable to either an AZ biwire(Satori shotgun or Hologram2 biwire)or higher quality jumpers than the stock gold plated plates.
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    • Redgum RGi120s
    Australian solid state integrated
    • Arcam Diva CD 92
    dcs Ring DAC, black finish
    • Soliloquy 6.3
    floorstanding 2.5 way, rosewood finish
    • Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference
    6N Zero Crystal Copper with Silver, tweaked by Robert Lee
    • Acoustic Zen Satori
    8' single run,10 AWG, 6N Zero Crystal Copper
    • Shunyata Hydra 4
    4 Venom silver outlets • “Trident Defense System” • 2400 watts @ 20 amps continuous • Surge protection (10,000A) • Individually filtered outlets • Shunyata Venom noise filters • Solid silver buss bars • Detachable 20A inlet • All metal chassis
    • Shunyata Copperhead
    Copperhead - 10 gauge CDA-101 high purity cryogenically treated copper conductors, copper braided shields medical grade clear dielectrics finished with the Shunyata proprietary Vevom IEC connector with pure silver plated contact surfaces.
    • Virtual Dynamics Reference Power
    4' powering integrated amplifier, picture is of the Audition power cable, looks are very similar
    • Virtual Dynamics Signature Power
    6' powering cd player
    • Virtual Dynamics 20 A power outlet
    20 A cryo'd outlet, dedicated 20 A circuit
    • Cardas rca caps
    keeping rfi nasties along with dust and kid's finger out of unused connections
    • Vibrapods #1
    4 under Shunyata
    • Vibrapods #3
    6 under cd player with sand weight on top of cd player
    • Audioquest Feet
    4 AQ feet under integrated amplifier

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Mdp0430, I love the satoris with my Soliloquy speakers. I had the Mat Ref ics first, using them with Kimber 4tc biwire speaker cables. The system sounded a little thick, lacking some quickness and control. I bought the Satoris in a single run for budget reasons (ie - wife) wanting to upgrade jumpers or to a biwire later. The Satoris opened my system up, lightened up the "thickness", but not making it bright by any means. I still think that it leans towards warm vs bright. I'm not sure that a perfectly neutral system exists, and recordings vary so much that it might not even matter. My system was put together for musicality first and foremost. I have always felt that systems that are too bright , while fast and revealing, get tiring after awhile. I am still looking into jumpers. The AZ Satori jumpers are a little pricy. I have thought about a used set of satoris to send to AZ to terminate as a biwire, but this was very pricy. There are many others though, Infinity Audio, Cardas, Mapleshade just to name a few. Hope this helps.

clingman71