Everything in this system is intended to represent strong performance for the money and the result is very pleasing.The image size is very realistic. The system is very smooth, transparent,and alive, with great bass clarity and overall dynamics.It plays to near live levels in my medium sized room. I enjoy it very much! It may be crass to call this a budget system but I just saw Albert Porters system and figured out where I am at.
Classic 3 way using 2, 5 1/4" Audax HM130Z12 high performance Areogel woofers with an 8" passive,Dayton RS52 metal dome mid replaces the original modified 37mm Polydax dome mid, and a Foster E110T samarium cobalt planar tweeter Solen Fast caps in woofer circuit Sand filled mid/tweeter cabinet VH Audio OIMP 10uf in mid circuit
Rotel RCD-1072
a great player for the cash. Mine has the black face plate.
Bel Canto Design eVo 200.2
Gleart sounding class "T" amp tweaked with new Nichicon power supply caps and some other trick parts.
Adcom GFP-750
Line stage on loan until I can complete my Pass DIY, First watt B1 buffer stage.
Grover UR 8
Killer BIG bang for the buck IC's , not in use right now because the Naim has those DIN plugs on the back of the damn thing for inputs
Custom Made Vandersteen X-2 clones
my own hand made fixed X-over filters featuring VH Audio TFTF caps, for vasty improved sound over the factory units which use generic yellow REL caps. Not being used in the rig right now due to having no sub for the time being
Furutech FS-301
14Ga OFC speaker cable replacing the stuff that comes with the 2Wq features deep cryogenic treatment and demagnetization. I dressed it up with some clear tech flex. It sounds much better than the old stuff for not a huge investment. Not being un
MIT MI 330
MI-330 used from tuner
Custom Power Cord Co. High value
on CD2
Custom Power Cord Co. model eleven
used for power amp and line stage. Both have been modded. the line filter caps have been removed to work better with the Alan Maher PE and Furutech ends have been installed.
Monster Cable HTS 1000
Budget conditioner
Bright Star Audio Air Mass 3
2, one under the CD2 and one under the SP9
Bright Star Audio Air Mass 2
Air isolation bass under VT50
Vibrapod vibration control feet
Used under TT using sandwich method with MDF base. Also under sub woofer and between 2Ce's and their stands. total of 20
VPI Brick
2, one on CD2 and one on SP9
Billy Bags Pro 30
Black with Fusion Maple shelves,isolation tips, sand filled, 197 lbs. including sand
Billy Bags 2020
Amp stand under VT 50
Oyaide Cryo'd SWO-GX
This is one hell of an AC outlet. They use extra thick (2 micron) 24K direct Gold plating over high conductivity phospher bronze. The contact surface is thoroughly (twice) polished before each plating process.This thing sounds right. I have the front end plugged into this.
Porter Port Cryo treated Hubbell 8300HI
NASA cryo treated, hospital grade duplex AC receptacles. The amp and sub are fed by this outlet.
Nitty Gritty Pro
wet vac record cleaning machine
DIY Sub Woofer Isolation Platform
DIY Bright Star Big Rock clone. Holds over 60 lbs. of sand.
DIY Power Conditioner Isolation Base
Sand filled isolation platform made to fit Monster HTS 1000
cupped bearing races with 3/8" tungsten carbide balls. Employed under CD palyer.
Furutech FI-11M (cu)
Male AC plug. One replaces the cheap molded plastic plug on the Monster conditioner.
Cable Isolators small
set of eight porcelain ceramic insulators placed under IC's speaker cables and power cables. from cableisolators.com
Alan Maher Designs AC Power Enhancer
Parallel AC noise filter
DIY Hammond 193L Choke filter design by Alan Maher
DIY AC noise filter designed by Alan Maher. This parallel filter is a huge bank for the buck! Thanks very much to Alan for the design.
DIY RFI speaker filters
used across speaker and amp connections 10 ohm resistor in parallel with 0.01uF cap filters out 21 Mgh and above radio hash that contributes to harshness, hardness, and bloated bass.
Well, compared to Albert's magnificent system, almost all of us have "budget systems". Your system strikes me as a very intelligent blend of synergistic components. When time and money allows, I'd suggest you upgrade to Vandy 3A Signatures. When I sold my Vandy 2Ce's and moved up to the 3A Sig's, I was astonished at the level of improvement.
