Basement Sanctuary

by mikeba316 on

Description

1-06-2024....A little over a year ago I picked up the Rockport Arrakis 2 speakers and CH Prcecision M1.1 Mono blocks. Also "newer" to my system is the Allnic L10000 preamp and Nordost Odin power cords, and I added some more acoustic treatments to the walls. The room is serviced by a dedicated Equitech sub panel with seven dedicated lines feeding the room with balanced power.

The recent addition of these little plug in wall conditioner/filters from Nordost and the Puron are very worthwhile tweaks.

8-19-2015....System totally rebuilt from ground up. Moved to a larger room in basement. Room is 18'x 31' with 10' ceilings with seven dedicated circuits feeding into a dedicated wall mounted Equi=Tech subpanel.

4-30-2019.... Finally added proper room treatments focussing mostly on diffusion. All products from GIK Acoustics.
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Room Details

Dimensions: 31’ × 18’  X large
Ceiling: 10’

Components Toggle details

    • Rockport Technologies Arrakis 2 with external crossover speakers
    • CH Precision M1.1 Monoblock Amplifier
    Vertically bi-amped
    • CH Precision P1 and X1 with upgraded Nordost Umbilical cord
    • Allnic Audio L10000 preamp
    with premium NOS tubes
    • Technics SP10 MK3
    Built by Albert Porter
    • Playback Designs MPS5
    SACD Player
    • Schroeder LT
    Linear Tracking Tonearm
    • Air Tight PC-1 Supreme
    Low Output MC Phono Cartridge
    • JL Audio F113
    Dual Subs
    • Nordost Odin 1 Power cords
    seven total in my system
    • Purist Audio Design 25th Anniversary
    Used for all IC's
    • Purist Audio Design 25th Anniversary
    silver speaker cable
    • Purist Audio Design 25th Anniversary
     Power Cord
    • Equi=Tech 7.5 WQ
    Wall Mounted panel with seven Dedicated lines into room.
    • Adona Zero CS1
    Amp Stand
    • Adona Zro GX3
    For Turntable
    • Monitor Audio TTM Mat and Center weight
    Oil Dampened
    • GIK Acoustics Assorted Wall Treatments and Bass Traps
    • Nordost QRT QK1 AC filter
    • Vera-Fi Audio Puron AC power conditioner
    • Synergistic Research FEQ Carbon
    Passive Acoustic Tweak
    • Synergistic Research Vibratron
    Passive Acoustic Tweak
    • Synergistic Research HFT Speaker Kit MK2
    Passive acoustic Tweak

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I suspect you have a small amount of the cave effect...if you could move your speakers forward, and out of the cave, and place 4 bass traps in the cave (two in the corners, and the other two somewhere between the rack and the corner, you could improve the sound a good bit.

The room is very large (a good thing).

Dave

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