Description

A long overdue update with quite a few changes. I have finally found my speakers in the FinkTeam KIM after cycling through a variety of brands.
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Room Details

Dimensions: 13’ × 11’  Small
Ceiling: 8’


Components Toggle details

    • Audionet PRE G2
    • Audionet AMP 1 v2
    • FinkTeam KIM
    Speakers
    • Bricasti M3
    DAC
    • Antipodes Audio CX
    Digital Server
    • Stack Audio SmoothLAN Regenerator
    Ethernet reclocking and signal regeneration
    • PS Audio DirectStream Power Plant 15
    Power Regeneration
    • Audience AU24-SX SPEAKER CABLES
    Speaker cables, BFA banana connections
    • Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference II
    XLR Interconnects
    • Audio Sensibility Signature 100Mbps Ethernet Cable
    Ethernet cable
    • Acoustic Zen El Nino
    Power Cable(s)
    • Wireworld Platinum Starlight 7 USB Cable
    • Neotech Cable NEP-3001 MK III
    Power Cable x 2
    • Veritas Cables Praesto
    Power Cable x 2
    • Furutech GTX-D NCF(R)
    Power outlets x 2
    • Wireworld Silver Electra 7
    Power Cable
    • Acoustic Zen Hologram II
    Speaker Cables

Comments 18

Owner
@fire_water Thanks for the kind comments, though I just now updated my site with quite a few changes. Long overdue after a year of auditioning new speakers. I have found my speaker in the FinkTeam KIM's, just phenomenal.

zlone

You have really good components.  
My room isn't finished yet.  I haven't decided on the color for these damn ceiling clouds lol. I rendered my actual room with these clouds in white or brown.  The Quadratic Residue Diffuser is also a rendering. 

fire_water

Excellent zlone.  I look forward to those updated pics!

jafant

Owner
@jafant  Thanks! The profile is a lot out of date, I plan to update it soon as things are settling down. I have WW Silver Electra's on my Antipodes CX server and the Bricasti M3 DAC.

zlone

A beautiful room and System.  Very nice selections on Cabling. Where do you have the WW Silver Electra 7 placed?  Season's Greetings.

Happy Listening!
-J.A.

jafant

Owner
@audioconnection Noted. I like the Legacy's, but I don't love them. And they all tend to be very large except for the Calibre's which pack all the magic in a small box.

zlone

Zone I would be carful of comets from Troy because he can’t acquire a Vandersteen franchise so he is trying to persuade you away from this legendary choice use your own ears the speaker termination is the least of a concern and plain sounds better by comparison in his uncompromising research!
JohnnyR Audio Connection Verona NJ

audioconnection

Owner
@robshaw Thanks! I am loving it. Check out my second comment on this thread, it covers my thoughts on Audionet. Sorry, I am not a reviewer, so I may not be capturing my impressions very well.



zlone

Owner
@robshaw Thanks! I am loving it. Check out my second comment on this thread, it covers my thoughts on Audionet. Sorry, I am not a reviewer, so I may not be capturing my impressions very well.



zlone

Beautiful system. If I understand you correctly, you preferred the audionet amp to the Coda #8 ?  Just curious about the sonic differences? Thank you, Robert TN

robshaw

Owner
Just a few updates to the system. I replaced the Pass XP-12 -> Coda #8 with Audionet separates. Both combos are great, but I really love the Audionet sound. I also added a PS Audio PS12 regenerator, this has been an excellent upgrade as well.

zlone

Owner
 @audiogon Thank you for the System of the Week recognition!

zlone

Owner
@emergingsoul Thanks for the kind words. The KEF Reference have internal jumpers that are controlled by the set of knobs between HF and LF. 

I am in the northern forest, but just shy of Canada in the epicenter of U.S. curling, Duluth, MN. Curling looks very simple on the surface, but is a surprisingly complex game as you have found. 

zlone

Really love the space and gear.  Posts on back of speakers are really nice looking, hf don't seem to be connected.  

Appears you live in a Canadian forest because no one understands curling in the US. I've been watching it for years and I still don't understand many of the rules.    

emergingsoul

Ah ok I remember some of my friends were pretty obsessed with curling during the last Olympics very cool Zlone!

jond

Owner
  @jond Thanks! The thing on the floor is a curling stone, I am an avid curler. The KEF/Coda combo is an excellent match, a very sweet top end and plenty of power for the low end.

@tomaswv Thank you! The front of the speakers are 53" from the back wall. I went through several speaker cables before Acoustic Zen. The progression was Blue Jeans -> Mogami 3103 -> Kimber 8TC -> Acoustic Zen Satori -> Acoustic Zen Hologram II. I still might go back to the Satori's, I can't say why, but overall I feel as though I liked them better, we will see when I swap them back into the system. The Satori's were eye opening when I added them, they beat everything else I had tried hands down.

zlone

Beautiful system. Couple of questions: how from from the wall to the speaker baffles? What speaker cables did you try before selecting the Hologram IIs?

tomaswv

Gorgeous room Zlone I like the wall color and art very much btw what is that thing on the floor in front of the rack? I thought pottery but there's a spigot or something? And killer looking system too those KEFs must sound great with that big Coda amp.

jond

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