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
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.
also, if you are using apple lossless, you will notice that you are getting a bit rate of about 1000k when ripping cd's. i use xld to rip my cd's to itunes and the bit rate has jumped up to over 1400k but also uses 50% more disk. i have noticed a benefit in sound and less errors when using xld.
i have had some tube dacs and now have all solid state dacs. all using coax from jitter devices. i heard the ps audio dac last year at rmaf (it was a prototype of the new 1 coming out). listen to the new audio research dac, that sounded very nice at rmaf. right now, you can go to fry's and get a maxtor 2tb raid 0 or 1 disk subsystem for $199. i got mine setup as raid 1 so the drive is mirrored with almost 1tb of capacity. easy to setup with a mac.
all you really need a an old mac mini (g4) with 1gb ram to run itunes for your system. what really improved the sound was adding a jitter reduction device between the mac/airport express and the dac. you would use the toslink cable going into the jitter device then coax or aes from that to your dac. big difference. then use an iphone or touch with the new remote software to remotely control the mac running itunes.
