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My eternal chase for point source sound has taken me from Innersound to Vienna to B&W to Tyler to Sanders to Tannoy to Golden Ear to Zu to Tannoy to KEF (Ref 1) back to Zu to Sonist to PMC to Fyne back to KEF Blade 2. Just sold the Blade to recoup the cost. SVS Ultra Tower back in main room & yup I don't miss the Blade. New Zu DW6 are singing loud & proud in the main room whilst breaking in. Sound so good may stay there. Just added SVS-SB1000 Pro sub also.

Dug the new Carver Black Magic 25 so much I bought another to mono. Then discovered vertical biamping which is a game changer. Did the same thing with the Mini GaN 5. Astounding. Anyone else vertical 2 stereo amps? 

The NAD & SVS is in other room for cinema. 
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Room Details

Dimensions: 22’ × 21’  Large
Ceiling: 8’


Components Toggle details

    • SVS Ultra Tower
    The best bang for the buck in speakers you will ever find. Astounding. On par with Zu re price to value.
    • Zu Audio Dirty Weekend 6
    Superfly edition in 'cosmic carbon'
    • Bob Carver Black Magic 25
    Sound so moist I bought another to vertical bi-amp (then sold 1 to downsize).
    • SVS SB-1000 PRO
    Handles what the Zu don't, real moist.
    • Class D Audio Mini GaN 5
    5 lbs of pure miracle. Bought 1 then another a couple weeks later to vertical biamp in the summer.
    • Marantz TT-151
    Staring at it gives me a chubb.
    • NAD 588
    Their tasty TT; mostly built by pro-ject, simple & works great.
    • Sony HAP-Z1ES
    Old faithful. My longest tenured component by far. Replaced stock hdd w/ssd.
    • Parks Audio Puffin
    A phono pre from the future. Astoundingly fascinating. Shames all others regardless of price.
    • Quadraspire SVT Bamboo
    Nice rack. Earmuffs.
    • Richard Gray 400 Pro II
    Actually have 2: one for main rig, one for TV room.
    • Blue Jeans Cable Canare 4S11 Speaker Cable
    Competes with anything, including Fidelium at a fraction of cost.

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"Anyone else vertical 2 stereo amps? "

Yes!  When I finished adding the VTA mods to my second Dyna 70 amp, I set everything up in a vertical bi-amp configuration using two stereo amps....one channel of each amp for woofer, one for mids/tweeter.  Soundstage was spectacular!

At one point of the channels developed a problem, so I just want back to using them as single channel mono blocks as opposed to pulling the amp out of service to fix it. (one of these days I will, but in the meantime at least I'm not burning 8 Gold Lion KT66s at once!).  In the mean time, I introduced a solid state integrated amp to run the woofers (below 80hz), and use the Dyna/VTA tube ups up top on the midbass/tweeters.  Technically the addition of the SS amp is horizontal bi-amping, but monoblocks are inherently vertical, so I suppose it's really a hybrid bi-amp configuration.  It still sounds wonderful to me, and bass dynamics are better on the woofers from the SS integrated amp.   
-Scott


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