Description

I have moved to a new home we had built the music room is in my basement . The basement was finished by me and a builder friend it has a craft room for my wife a sitting room and my music room . The main area is 16 ft. Wide By 25 ft. Long And a area on the left side back of room 5 ft. Wide By 16 ft. Long. This is a nice large room I am still working on speaker and sub woofer placement for the best sound .i am also working on placement of acoustic treatments bass traps etc. there is always fine tuning and a bunch of small tweaks to work on to improve the sound ( does it ever stop ) . I am retired now so I don't think there will be any big changes to the system now unless I fall in to some big money LOL. i guess if I had some extra cash I would upgrade the Reha to signature ,maybe upgrade the caps in my power amp and upgrade caps in the speaker crossover but I am happy with the sound I have now. Music I love folk music ,Grateful Dead,classical ,johnny cash ,tori Amos a little blues , Pink Floyd, some jazz , no rap grunge or heavy metal
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Room Details

Dimensions: 25’ × 16’  Large
Ceiling: 8’


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    • North Creek Music Systems Manifest
    A MTM speaker with Scan speak 8545 woofers a Aurum Cantus G1 ribbon tweeter also a Aurum Cantus G2SI ribbon tweeter on the back . This is a kit from North Creek Music Systems I had cabinets built for Me by a local woodworker finished in a beautiful waterfall Bubinga wood
    • Graham Engineering 2.2 TC
    A Graham 1.5 TC in black upgraded to a 2.2
    • Basis 2001
    A Basis 2001 in black
    • Warpspeed Passive LDR volume control
    • NAT Audio SE2SE
    A beast of a amp with 211 tubes 50 watts per channel
    • Ridge Street Audio Design Poiema 3
    The most musical cable I ever had in My system
    • Ridge Street Audio Design Poiema 3
    bi wire speaker cable
    • Ridge Street Audio Designs Alethias
    power cords on preamp and power amps
    • Benz Micro MC Ruby
    A long time favorite cartridge of mine
    • Dynavector 17-D2 mkII
    A great cartridge for not huge money
    • Solid Steel 6.0
    Beautiful stands made in Italy
    • North Creek Thunder sub woofers
    I have a pair of these they really help fill out the bottom end nicely . They have a 250 watt class A/B amp each with a 12 inch pearless driver and a 12 inch passive in a sealed design.
    • Aesthetix Rhea non signature version phono preamp
    • Dynavector DV XX2 mk 2
    • Apple Mac mini 2018
    A new Apple Mac mini as of summer 2018
    • Ultra Fi DAC
    A older  nos 24/96 D/A converter need to update this some time but when you have vinyl I am in no hurry to do so.
    • VPI Industries H-16.5 Record Cleaning Machine

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I'm a recent convert to the music server world also.

I use a 300Gb drive on a Toshiba laptop. I have well over 3000 cuts currently ripped from CD using WIndows lossless format.

I love the flexibility + the sound is the best I've ever had from digital source.

What other DACs have you tried prior?

mapman

Love it, including the room + Nipper too!

mapman