| Warren Gregoire's Warren Gregoire System
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| Last Update: January 23, 2003 at 11:25:06
| IP Address: 66.81.126.60
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| Amplifier: | Vacuum State Electronics, Inc. Designed PP1C (custom built by Warren) 12 Watts/Channel
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| Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): | Vacuum State Electronics, Inc. Designed RTP-4 Balanced Phono/Line stage with SuperReg power supply and step attenuators (Custom Built by Warren)
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| Speakers: | Ikonoklast 3 speaker systems. Sensitivity = 95dB
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| Sources:
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| CD Player/DAC: | Sony DVP-S9000ES and Sony SCD-C333ES |
| Turntable/Phono Stage: | Thorens TD-124 with Slate Audio marble plinth, power supply and glass platter mat, Dynavector DV-507 (new model) tone arm, London (Decca) Jubilee, and various Ikeda 9 series cartridges.
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| Other Accessories/Room/Misc.:
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| Speaker Cables/Interconnects: | Custom cables/interconnects based upon the ideas and information in Allen Wright's CABLE COOKBOOK.
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| Tweaks: | Both Sony SACD players are equipped with Allen Wright's (VSEI) LEVEL I and LEVEL II mods.
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| Music Preferences and Comments:
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| Music Used (Genre/Selections): | Pop-Jazz-Rock-Classical and a smattering of Willie Nelson.
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| System Goals/Comments: | The system is agressively under continual development to improve musical realism. The goal is to bannish all vestiges of the "hi fi sound," leaving only musical instruments and human voices.
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| System Strengths: | It sounds very real and open. IMHO better than the megabucks systems at the high end dealers.
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| System Weaknesses: | It doesn't play as loud as some people would prefer, but mostly it's loud enough for me.
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| Video/HT System:
None
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