Description

No Tower but plenty of Power. No Shrine but totally Sublime. 15" woofer in Sub is driven by 1000 Watts. Separate 250 Watts amp drive each speaker's 12" woofers, separate 100 Watts amp drive each speaker's mid range and separate 50 Watts amp drives each speaker's tweeter.

Note: Photos show system prior to commencing cabinetry constuction through to final result.
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    • ATC SCM-100A
    Fronts - Active Speakers 12
    • ATC SCM-20SL
    Surrounds - Passive ATC 75mm dome mid range grafted on ATC 150mm woofer with 1 inch dome tweeter(vifa). You can see them on top of fireplace, which is on rear wall (facing front speakers)
    • ATC SCM-0.1/15
    Sub - 15
    • Anthem AVM-20
    Surround Processor
    • Bryston 4B-ST
    Drives L and R surrounds
    • Macintosh G4 Mini Titletrack Jukebox
    I am not generally a tweaker. Amp adjustments for room resonance/reflections and speaker placement is all I do. I use my Macintosh G4 and Titletrack Jukebox software to control everything: browse/find music and set playlists, stage CD's to changers for continuous cued music playback from three Sony mega CD Changers, or iTunes. Mac mini also controls all equipment settings (RS232 to infra-red adapters).
    • Sony CDP-CX235
    Changer Source 1 - controlled by Macintosh (Titletrack)
    • Sony CDP-CX235
    Changer Source 2 - controlled by Macintosh (Titletrack)
    • Sony CDP-CX210
    Changer Source 3 - contolled by Macintosh (Titletrack)
    • Pioneer DV-440
    DVD Player
    • Fireplace Bass Trap
    18" Logs stacked perpendicular to the rear wall. Bark is left on the logs to act as sound absorbing surface.

Comments 30

Owner
Mark,

Huh? Cooling? This is no antique fan and it is certainly not for cooling....you have probably heard of a "base trap" well this is actually a "base mixer" ... my most expensive audio tweak.....it evenly distributes the lower base frequencies evenly through my room.

Since I upgraded the pulley system from ordinary rubber to directionaly aligned genuine cow hide leather, the smoothness in base reponse has been phenominal...with this tweak I think I have nearly achieved audio nirvana...although I find it a nuisance to continually adjust the rotation speed to match the sound level and once I nearly lost a finger when my wife hit what she thought was the light switch and started the rotor just as I was making critical phase adjustments of the blades.

shadorne

Wow that's quite a cooling system you have there. I bet it is fun to watch the pullys and belts. It must be an antque.

Mark

mark02131

Owner
System edited: Just added some photos of my x-studio equipment (Fronts acquired on Audiogon classifieds! Others items accumulated new over several years). These back-breakingly heavy brutes will never win any beauty contest. Thes photos show how things look before the cabinet builders arrive in an attempt to improve the WAF!

shadorne

Owner
Just moved house and equipment is in a smaller size room than before. Now in a 25' by 22' slightly irregular shape room that starts about 16 feet wide where fronts are placed roughly 8 feet apart and opens, after 6 feet to full width with a circular area and large bay windows on one side. 9 foot ceilings and concrete floor with carpet. I have contracted to get some cabinetry built to hide the equipment: the 100's are big ugly brutes, and so are the CD mega changers and all will be hidden away to improve the WAF. I will post before and after pics when this is finished (next month or so).

shadorne

wow, love these ATC monitors. thats gotta sound great. any pics coming?
btw what size is your room?

pitdog75

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