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smeade02@mckenna.edu's Steve's Dorm Room Special System |
| Last Update: March 04, 2002 at 20:38:48 | IP Address: 134.173.173.135 |
| Amplifier: | Antique Sound Labs Wave AV-8 Monoblocks (bone stock) |
| Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): | Marantz SC-80 Preamp (currently not used) |
| Speakers: | GR Reasearch Paradox 1 |
| Sources: | |
| CD Player/DAC: | Marantz CD67SE (bone stock) |
| Other Accessories/Room/Misc.: | |
| Speaker Cables/Interconnects: | MIT Terminator 5 for speakers Unlabeled Straight Wire for CD->Monoblocks |
| Other (Power Conditioner, Racks etc.): | Magro equipment rack Lovan Affinity 24" stands |
| Tweaks: | None Yet. |
| Room Size (LxWxH): | 10 x 12 x 9 |
| Room Comments/Treatments: | Standard room, concrete floor, thin industrial type carpeting, acoustic "cottage cheese" ceiling treatment |
| Music Preferences and Comments: | |
| Music Used (Genre/Selections): | Brit Rock (from The La's to Radiohead to Coldplay to The Verve) Mainstream Jazz (Stan Getz and Dave Bruebeck) Female Vocalists (Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos, Eva Cassidy...the usuals) |
| System Goals/Comments: | Musical Enjoyment --- I realize that at my price point overall music accuracy is a hopeless goal...so I'm much more interested in musicality...even at the expense of accuracy. |
| System Strengths: | I really enjoy listening to it. It's the opposite of fatiguing...listening a little makes me want to listen more. Very above mid-fi coherency. Nothing ever glares and yet it has that "bite" of live music. |
| System Weaknesses: | Bass that refuses to extend anywhere close to real levels (my roommate is a drummer). Fortunately, below a certain point it isn't really missed. Overall smoothness...no one would ever mistake my system for one containing Sonus Faber monitors. Everything sounds good but the upper trouble is a little less than natural. It has the right "bite" and never glares but sometimes it just doesn't have that "rightness" I'd like. |
| Video/HT System: None | |
| Other Interests/Hobbies/Occupation: | Cars. German ones in particular. Porsches even more specifically. I also love to take pictures and, every once in a while, create art. |