Vitused Audio Room

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A crazy hobby, a journey but not an ego trip

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marty

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Very nice system! Tell us more about the power breaker panel and the "FRANK" power amp storage boxes. Are these for the Vitus amps?
Also, in one of your recent posts you said you used (or perhaps tried) the Schnerzinger loom of cables. Did you keep them?
(Also, you might want to edit and rotate some of the photos 90 deg)
Marty
 

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DIY Subpanel by Tan HF bro , a member here as well. Silver plated copper plates with cryoed MCB & ELCB. 3 Frank power bank connected to elcb serving the whole system. Definitely not power restricted . Expanded my soundstage . Love the Frank Ground filter connected to the ground cable of the system. Tested with On & Off switch. Clear noticeable improvement to the quietness of the system.
Scherzinger cabling syst is the best I have tried & heard compared to cables like Odin, Goebel, skogrand, Jorma prime etc. However price with zero discount policy. Still considering it esp if I can sell of some of my cables
 

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Wow. just WOW !
 

Rodney Gold

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That Room treatment looks like it's the Right Stuff...
I wish you well to use it and MYNEBBTYL (May Your Next Eargasm Be Better than Your Last)
 

jeff1225

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Beautiful system and very well thought out. You don't hear much about the Vitus Masterpiece Phono. What are your thoughts on this phono stage vs the others you've tried?
 

JackD201

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Absolutely gorgeous. The natural light definitely adds to the beauty of the space as well.
 

audioblazer

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Beautiful system and very well thought out. You don't hear much about the Vitus Masterpiece Phono. What are your thoughts on this phono stage vs the others you've tried?
Heard it side by side with FM223 R & personally I prefer MPP. In fact , the best Vitus products are the amp & phono
 

Lagonda

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What a beautiful room ! What are the dimensions ?

Congratulations!
 

Jazzhead

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I had the pleasure of visiting Audioblazer , a few months back . His room is on the top floor of his villa . Very well thought out and implemented both aesthetically and acoustically.Particularly interesting were the SMT DIY Helmoltz Resonators. We were out on a few other audio visits and dinner, before arriving at his place along with HF Tan , so AB warmed up his rig playing some digital via the Vitus MP-DAC . We then switched over to the AF1 ( Axiom Arm , Miyajima Madrake cart)thru the Vitus Master phono .

The first cut he played was the Dallas Wind Symphony "Fiesta" , resplendent brass and percussion rang out, followed by tympani strikes that were gargantuan in their presence and impact. The Vitus Master monos powering thru , making light work of the demands made of it . Good image stability with a tight grip on pitch .
The speakers are pulled out a fair way into the room , even more than the usual 1/3rds and the soundstage generated had tremendous depth with good image specificity. I felt that the Focals scaled a lot larger than their physical stature .

Next up was the Rostropovich/Britten , Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata ... Nicely nuanced with good decay and tone giving finely intermingled tonal contrasts . We rocked out next to Pink Floyd 's The Wall and on to another Audiophile staple in the form of Cafe Blue by Patricia Barber . While I am no expert or had much experience with TT's , it was safe to assume that the AF1 was one explosive and impactful ride. Drawing from my experiences with Vitus , I must concur with AB that the power amps and phono stage are the gems in the pack .

We wound up by listening to his Studer , this was a more voluminous projection , with copious amounts air and with more fluidity . The bass however was not as pitch specific as the vinyl , I thought it to be generally looser and mentioned the same to AB .

I must thank AB once again, for taking me around and for his kind hospitality . It was an enjoyable listen and any folk passing thru KL , would find it well worth their time in touching base with AudioBlazer.
 

audioblazer

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What a beautiful room ! What are the dimensions ?

Congratulations!

Cathedral shaped Room 18x28' x 8.5' side wall, rising to 12.5' at the centre of the room
 

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audioblazer

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I had the pleasure of visiting Audioblazer , a few months back . His room is on the top floor of his villa . Very well thought out and implemented both aesthetically and acoustically.Particularly interesting were the SMT DIY Helmoltz Resonators. We were out on a few other audio visits and dinner, before arriving at his place along with HF Tan , so AB warmed up his rig playing some digital via the Vitus MP-DAC . We then switched over to the AF1 ( Axiom Arm , Miyajima Madrake cart)thru the Vitus Master phono .

The first cut he played was the Dallas Wind Symphony "Fiesta" , resplendent brass and percussion rang out, followed by tympani strikes that were gargantuan in their presence and impact. The Vitus Master monos powering thru , making light work of the demands made of it . Good image stability with a tight grip on pitch .
The speakers are pulled out a fair way into the room , even more than the usual 1/3rds and the soundstage generated had tremendous depth with good image specificity. I felt that the Focals scaled a lot larger than their physical stature .

Next up was the Rostropovich/Britten , Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata ... Nicely nuanced with good decay and tone giving finely intermingled tonal contrasts . We rocked out next to Pink Floyd 's The Wall and on to another Audiophile staple in the form of Cafe Blue by Patricia Barber . While I am no expert or had much experience with TT's , it was safe to assume that the AF1 was one explosive and impactful ride. Drawing from my experiences with Vitus , I must concur with AB that the power amps and phono stage are the gems in the pack .

We wound up by listening to his Studer , this was a more voluminous projection , with copious amounts air and with more fluidity . The bass however was not as pitch specific as the vinyl , I thought it to be generally looser and mentioned the same to AB .

I must thank AB once again, for taking me around and for his kind hospitality . It was an enjoyable listen and any folk passing thru KL , would find it well worth their time in touching base with AudioBlazer.

Arshad , agree with your observation abt the bass of the Studer A80 playback with Bottlehead Tube Repro . Don't thk Tube Repro is doing a good enough job in the bass area .
Yup , if you happen to pass by , give me a shout
 

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For those of u that are into DIY bass trap, try to use Ecophon, a lot more expensive than rockwool but safer & much more effective . Prev audio room I was using rockwool .
Was concerned about the peak of the room & its beaming effect but works fine with Ecophon bass trap (40mm)
 

Lagonda

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Cathedral shaped Room 18x28' x 8.5' side wall, rising to 12.5' at the centre of the room
Looks fantastic, must have been hard to tame. A lot of diffusers/absorbers in the ceiling.
 

audioblazer

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Yes was concern abt the cathedral roof . Move around the heavy glass diffusers , mdf diffusers, realtraps 3/4 times before I settled down on current set up
 

audioblazer

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Grounding of the system.
Telos GNR from Taiwan, frank AV ground loop emi filter, 2 separate high purity copper plates, 200 x 200 x 10mm (coated with ground enhancing material ) planted abt 3-4 ft deep . Google Ken chang of monitor acoustic. Recommended by a friend from Vietnam . Ably conditioned by JMF PCD302 conditioner with dual mono sections with dual hardwired JMF power cord . Highly recommended by audioexotics which seems to prefer it to tripoints conditioner . As for ground box , I have tried Telos, Tripoints Troy older model , Entreq. The best to my ears is tripoints esp in the bass region

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