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This is my main music system which also doubles as home cinema for DVD and tv. Pass X1000 amps driving Wilsons give tremendous power and control. Very sensitive to interconnects and power supply. Serious music listening is opera and orchestral classical. System now really sounding good with great depth to the soundstage. Wilsons upgraded using "Angel Hair" and Pure Note cables for Puppy Tails
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    • Pass Labs X-1000
    Huge monoblocks with class A sound quality
    • Wilson Audio Watt+Puppy 5.1
    clean clear, good dynamics and soundstaging
    • Synergistic Designer Reference
    nice balanced detailed sound
    • PS Audio P1200
    beast of a regenrator but does seem to work
    • finite elemente master reference
    Makes a huge difference, particularly in conjunction with cerabase and cerapuc feet
    • DCS Verdi Encore
    Britsh made cd/sacd transport
    • DCS Elgar plus
    CD/SACD DAC
    • DCS Purcell
    Upsampler
    • Pass Labs X-0
    Great Nelson Pass preamp
    • Synergistic Research Designers Ref
    active shielded cables
    • Finite elemente Master Reference
    equipment stand and matching amp stands

Comments 4

While you are in Denver you would enjoy a visit to our shop. You mentioned cable upgrades, we carry Kubala-Sosna. Wilson has used Kubala-Sosna to demo their speakers at a couple of the CES Shows. Not sure I can send an attachment with this email but if you respond I will send you some information.
Our main speaker line is the Wilson Benesch. We have taken the Curves to our Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and received very fine show reports. Below is just one of them from TAS. I also have the Wilson Benesch Torus Infrasonic Generator. I am not a fan of sub woofers but the Torus is a totally different animal and can be integrated with the fastest speakers even electrostatics.
The best
Jim Riddell
“Though I've heard the Wilson-Benesch Curve floorstanders many times before, I found that they sounded spectacularly good as driven by Kara Chaffee's amazing deHavilland tube electronics . Nothing I heard at RMAF, save perhaps for the far more expensive Vandersteen/ARC system, could touch this rig for sheer midrange purity, detail, three-dimensionality ." Chris Martens TAS

sounds_real_audio

Owner
System edited: Replaced Krell KPS25S with a classic DCS stack. Also added GPS time and frequency reference control to Verona to good effect. Upgraded the old Wilson 5.1 speakers by replacing Puppy Tails with Pure Note Titanium tails and replaced internal wadding with Angel Hair plus some Unicorn Tails to damp the ports.

custodian

Owner
System edited: just changed source, preamp, cables and stand. Now just happy to listen to music (till the upgrade bug strikes again!)

custodian

Great system! For transports, it is hard to beat Wadia or better yet, MBL. For DAC's a lot of good choices, but Audio Note has always sounded very natural to these ears, and I would probably take it over Audio Research or some of the other tubed DAC's out there.
Happy auditioning.

prs123

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