| Last Update: February 25, 2007 at 17:36:17 | IP Address: 24.18.195.178 |
| Amplifier: |  the lights muted for 'serious' listening. ahhhhhhhh.
DarTZeel NHB-108 Stereo amplifier (on Grand Prix Monaco amp stand with Formula shelf and Apex footers), Jena Labs Fundamental One power cord on the darTZeel. |
| Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): |  darTZeel NHB-18NS with battery power and internal phono stage. even though with battery power it doesn't matter a whit.....i do use a Jena Labs Fundamental One power cord on it. |
| Speakers: |  Evolution Acoustics MM3 Loudspeakers. These speakers are true full range. The MM3's are 73 inches tall and weigh 575 pounds each. there are three separate modules; the center mid-range/tweeter module; the lower woofer module with ICE digital amplifier and the upper woofer module which takes it's power from the lower digital amp in the bottom woofer module. there are two umbilcals with Neutric connectors. manufacturer data shows bass extention to 10hz (-3db) and 7hz (-6db). i have no way to measure that but they do go low and very articulate in my room.
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| CD Player/DAC: |  Meitner emmlabs DAC6 SE and emmlabs CDSD, with proprietory optical digital link , Jena Labs Fundamental One power cords on both DAC and CDSD. |
| Turntable/Phono Stage: |  Rockport System III Sirius turntable
Van Den Hul Colibri XCP cartridge, van den Hul Colibri XGW cartridge, Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum II cartridge, Dynavector XV-1s cartridge, Nordost Valhalla RCA interconnect from the Rockport to the darTZeel preamp internal phono.
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| Other Source(s): |  you can see above where there is a box in the floor which has a 2' conduit for the optical cable between the DAC6 and CDSD to allow me to have the transport at my seating position. this 'floorbox' also has a dedicated line. this picture shows gear i am no longer using in the system.
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| Other Accessories/Room/Misc.: | |
| Speaker Cables/Interconnects: |  12' set of Transparent Opus speaker cables
an 8 meter pair of darTZeel BNC 50ohm 'zeel' cables are used between the dart pre and dart amps.
each stereo darTZeel amp uses short 'zeel' jumpers to carry the signal from one side of the stereo amp to the other. |
| Other (Power Conditioner, Racks etc.): | as each Jena Labs power cord has it's own conditioner i use no stand alone power conditioner at this time.
Grand Prix Monaco 4 shelf rack and 2 amp stands. each with Formula Shelves and Apex footers. the rack has an SE frame. |
| Tweaks: | SAP magnetic-levitation shelf. Walker hd links, valid pts., tuning kit. (5) sets of Walker lead filled pucks. Black Diamond Racing shelf, cones. Shakti Stones. porcelain cable elevators. (2) sets of Aurios. (11) 20 amp dedicated lines, each 10 gauge copper 'Romex' 'home runs' to a dedicated panel just for these dedicated circuts. this panel has it's own dedicated grounding system. Jena Labs deep-immersion cryo'd duplex outlets for each of the dedicated outlets.
Lp cleaning area in the hallway outside the room with the new Loricraft record cleaning machine. I intend to get into the whole CD 'burning' thing likely with the Reality CD approach soon. |
| Room Size (LxWxH): | 29' x 21' x 11' |
| Room Comments/Treatments: |  the ceiling treatment is very special and must be heard to be believed. Rives Audio did a 'no-compromise' design job and their ideas were fully realized.
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| Music Preferences and Comments: | |
| Music Used (Genre/Selections): |  female vocal, small group jazz, any type of music that sounds good, any natural recordings , 50% jazz, 30% pop, 20% classical. 3500 cds, 6000 lps, 675 sacds. The listening room holds all my digital and about 40% of my Lps.
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| System Goals/Comments: | to have a system that can retain the musical magic on all types of music, small and large scale and have the resolving power and refinement to connect me with the soul of the music. also, handle the frequency extremes without loseing coherence. this room/system absolutely succeeds at this. There is a 'link' at the bottom (see 'URL link') of this page to an article (in Positive Feedback Online) written about the process of building this room.
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| System Strengths: |  the 'audio barn' gets out of the way of the music. it does allow the 'art' of music to touch me and make my day better. |
| System Weaknesses: | none inherent in the system and room......more a matter of going down the path of learning what this system CAN do. at this point it is quite amazing. i see my listening limitations as the system limitation. |
| Video/HT System: Separate | |
| TV/Projector: | Sony Pearl VPL-VW50 1080p Front projector. (JVC RS-1 arriving late Feb 2007), Crystalio II video switcher/processor, ISCO III anamorphic lens for 2:35 constant height, Da-lite Pearlesent (1.7 gain) 115" x 49" screen with motorized vertical masking. (pictures for Theatre room are pending) |
| Processor/Receiver/Amplifiers: | Lexicon MC-12, Proceed AMP 5, Proceed HPA-2 amp. Lexicon 7 channel amplifier. |
| Speakers (Center, Surrounds, Sub): | Revel Performa F30(L&r), Performa C30 (center), Performa S30 (surrounds),Paradigm Studio 20(rear pair),Velodyne Servo F1000X (2) |
| Sources (DVD/VCR): | Sony BDP-S1 Blue Ray, Toshiba HD-XA2 HD-DVD, Comcast HD with DVI output, Sony HD-200 Direct TV, JVC HM-DH40000U D-VHS player/recorder. |
| Comments on HT System: | needs acoustical treatments.....otherwise pretty good little theatre. room is 18' x 14' x 9.5' |
| URL Link: http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue16/lavigneroom.htm | |
| Other Interests/Hobbies/Occupation: | 53 years old, married 30 years, work in retail, love music and audio. |
