My Sonic Heaven

by speedracerucr on Getting Started

Description

This is my first real system that I have managed to put together with my student budget. It consist of components from the early to mid 90's. All of my components were purchased used on Audiogon or Ebay. Living in a smallish apartment, my listening area is restricted to my 15.5'X17' living room. After starting with all solid state, I have moved on to an all tube system. Switching to tubes has really brought out the musicality and tone that was missing with my previous SS gear. My system allow me to relax with the music, especially when I am winding down after a long day of classes. My musical tastes include Jazz, Classical, female vocals, and R&B. Let me know what you think of my setup. I am always looking to upgrade. Questions, comments or suggestions are appreciated.
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    • Kinergetics KCD-30
    Oldie but Goodie. Trusty Kinergetics CD player used as transport only. Based on the classic Magnavox CDB-650 which uses the CDM2 transport mechanism.
    • Sonic Frontiers UltraJitterBug
    Jitter reduction device.
    • Camelot Technology Dragon Pro2 mkI
    Jitter Box with resolution enhancement. A nice upgrade cleaning up the digital sound of my system.
    • Polyfusion Audio 800
    Sweet sounding DAC with a very smooth, musical sonic signature. Well built with a large outboard power supply.
    • Taddeo Digital Antidote II Active
    This is the active version. Makes spinning CDs much more enjoyable. I cannot imagine listening to digital without mine.
    • Canary Audio CA-601 mkII
    Beautiful tube preamp with a pair of Amperex Bugle Boy 6DJ8 and a single 6CG7. Smooth presentation with incredible front to back depth.
    • VTL Renaissance 80
    80 watts monoblocks. Nice and smooth sound. Uses 4 X 5881 and 2 X 12AT7 per side.
    • N E A R 50ml
    Transparent with killer sound stage. 3 way system with 1 inch vifa tweeter, 4 inch aluminum midrange, 8 inch aluminum woofer.
    • Marigo Audio Lab Apparition MKI
    Robust and well built digital coax cable with an airy and transparant sound. Used between the Camelot Dragon and Polyfusion 800 DAC.
    • Yamamura M5000
    XLR Digital cable. Smooth, full bodied cable.
    • Creative Cable Concepts Green Hornet
    Well constructed digital Coax cable. Smoothed out some of the digital nasties while increasing the bass response. Used between the Kinergetics and Ultra Jitterbug.
    • Sonoran Signature
    1.0 meter interconnect. Transparant and fast while maintaining musical signature. Used between Polyfusion DAC and Taddeo Digital Antidote.
    • Purist Audio Design Aquesous
    1.5 meters. Used between Taddeo Digital Anitidote and Canary preamp.
    • Tice IC 1A
    Tice's solid core copper IC. It has a warm, musical sound. 1.5M between Pre and Power Amps.
    • Tice 416A Biwire
    Tice solid core copper speaker cables. 8' biwire. Smooth yet detailed sound.
    • Tice Audio Microblock
    2 outlets dedicated power conditioner for my digital front end.
    • PAC Super IDOS
    "Isolated Digital Outlet Strip"
    • BMI Whale Elite MKII
    8' power cable connected to the outboard power supply of the polyfusion DAC.
    • Matisse The ConductoR
    This unique product acts as a passive “sink” or absorber of RF noise on the DAC ground plane, thereby improving the sound primarily by reduction of timing jitter.
    • Michael Green Audiopoints
    Isolation cones for Preamp.
    • Final Labs Daruma 3ii
    Ball bearing isolation devise used with EAD transport.

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Very nice setup! Always good to read the progress that people make as they fine tune their gear.

Kudos on the speakers, great sound! Nice step up from the KEF's (though I also liked how the 103/4's sounded, excellent midrange).

Btw, if you are ever interested in selling the NEARS's, let me know. Seriously have been trying to find a pair in good shap for awhile now. There's a beaten pair on eBay, but local pickup only and I'm in Boston. sigh.

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Cheers,
Scott

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