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For me this is my dream system as i love every component, it gives me endless hours of enjoyment. It puts the musicians in the room playing for me, what more could one want?
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    • Chord Electronics Ltd. CPA-5000 reference
    Fully balanced
    • Chord Electronics Ltd. SPM-14000 ultimate
    Power amp
    • Chord electronics Red Reference MKIII
    Cdplayer
    • Wilson Audio MAXX II
    Excellent speaker
    • Marantz SA-14
    V2 CD/SACD
    • Core Audio Designs 3 shelf rack and platfform
    2 3 shelf and 2 platfforms for the monoblocs
    • Poth Audio Source Reference
    For me simply the best, i use these in line and phono.
    • Avid Acutus
    Great turntable
    • SME Series V
    V Gold Upgraded with high quality wire (it's a secret)
    • Air Tight PC-1
    Great cartridge
    • VPI Turntable rack
    Great support
    • Rui Borges Turntables Ultimo Tristar
    Tristar 3 arm turntable (VPI 12.5, SME V and SME 312) with Clearaudio Insider, Benz Micro LP and VDH Colibri XGP
    • VPI Industries JMW Memorial 12.5
    12" soon to be upgraded with Nordost Valhalla wire
    • Clearaudio Insider
    One of the greatest ever
    • SME Series V
    Upgraded internal wire
    • Benz Micro LP
    Great cartridge
    • SME 312
    12" arm upgraded with silver wire
    • van den Hul Colibri XGP
    Vinyl in HD i'd say
    • WLC custom made Custom made
    A true reference (for me)
    • Shunyata Hydra2 and Hydra 8
    Mains filter
    • Chord Electronics Ltd. Symphonic with choral audio rack
    Balanced and unbalaced inputs and outputs
    • Aesthetix Aesthetix Rhea phonostage
    Tube phonostage with Telefunken Diamond tubes, the price includes the price of the tubes
    • Acoustic system bronze, silver and gold
    Acoustic treatment
    • Jocavi Various
    Acoustic treatment
    • Custom made Circuit board
    Dedicated lines for digital, analogue and powers
    • Cable elevators plus Cable elevators
    Tweak
    • Audio Horizons Transparency
    Power cables
    • VH Audio Flavour 4
    Power cables for the turntables
    • Poth Audio Purple
    PowerCords
    • SolidTech Rack of silence
    Solidtech ROS

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Owner
Yes i live in Terceira island if you ever come here i'll gladly show you what my system can do when playing music.

canoa70

Owner
Mr. Microstrip these are my final speakers way better than JMlab grande utopia the Chords play much much better with these, the series 2 are enough for me thanks for your advice.

canoa70

Owner
Mr. Microstrip these are my final speakers way better than JMlab grande utopia the Chords play much much better with these, the series 2 are enough for me thank for your advice.

canoa70

Owner
System edited: These are way better than my previous B&W 800D.

canoa70

Owner
Just bougt a pair of Wilson Audio's MAXX 2 they're much better than B&W's 800D.
I think this is my last speaker.

canoa70

Owner
I forgot to mention 2 things, the VPI rack and Core Audio Design platforms, they were a great upgrade, so much that soon i'll be replacing the spiders with 2 Core Audio Designs 3 shelves audio rack.

canoa70

Owner
System edited: I will update the pictures asap.

canoa70

Owner
System edited: Another turntable!!!

canoa70

Owner
I'll try and explain, altough i like the Diablo the Chord combo is simply a whole other leauge one that's simple it's one of the best out there (for me is the best IMHO).

canoa70

Owner
I'd say it's very neutral sound, the players are in the room with you and that's what it's all about for me.
For the record i also have a pair of Dynaudio Confidence C4 on my second system power by gryphon Diablo.

canoa70

Owner
Well, i used to own pricesily a spm-5000E and altough very good doesn't even get close to the performance of these 14000's, these are simply magical, pity the price of admission is so high.

canoa70

Owner
Thanks Surfgod, i know what you mean some people will make fun of things they probably can't afford, so it's easier to bash. I love the sound i have and that's what matters to me.

canoa70

Owner
To find more about this wonderful turntalbe goto www.delmax.pt i don't if there's an english version of the site but yet you'll get to see more pics of other tt's

canoa70

Owner
Thanks, forgot to mention there's also a Micro-Seiki RX-1500 in there as a second turntable.

canoa70

Owner
System edited: Now it's time to do some small changes and acoustics after that only music.

canoa70

Owner
System edited: Still waiting on the CPA-5000 reference and B&W 800D.

canoa70

Owner
System edited: New turntable

canoa70

Owner
System edited: The upgrade bug has hit me again, so next will have pics of the following equipment: Chord SPM-14000 ultimate monoblocs Chord CPA-5000 reference preamp Chord Symphonic phonostage Tristar reference turntable

canoa70

Owner
System edited: Next i will invest in the acoustics, i'm having a professional company make the room 100% acoustic. Any comments?

canoa70

Owner
System edited: I know i'm in the done for now category, but i'm thinking maybe in swaping the chord amps for gryphon antlieon signature and sonata allegro and the speaker for dynaudio evidence temptation.

canoa70

Owner
I've done big changes to the system will upadate them soon, with pics.

canoa70

Owner
I've spoke to this fellow Ciffanervi he hasn't even heard the SPM5000 (so please) and he uses a CPA4000 with a ML 27.5 so please don't make fun of other systems wihtout knowing anything about them.

canoa70