My system as of 1/2022:
Modified
Pathos Acoustics TT RR integrated with upgraded components and 1950's
Sylvania long black plate 12AX7's:
Dueland Cast PIO Tinned Copper Foil &
Mundorf Silver/Gold/Oil caps;
Vishay Z-foil resistors;
Bybee Music Rails (2) installed; rewiring with
Stage III Concepts Aerostrand and
Duelund tinned copper cable; replacement of the red 33,000 uf caps (4) and main and mosfet power boards (2) with the latest versions from Pathos;
Yamamoto teflon tube sockets;
Furutech gold over copper rca connectors and IEC inlet;
Nasotec Namoo gold over copper/wood speaker binding posts; vintage
Alps "Black Beauty" volume pot to replace failed stock unit. Amp sits on customized (to accept the fixed chassis spikes)
Marigo Mystery feet and custom Corian isolation platform.
Custom
Bache Audio Metro 001 speakers (augmented wideband design with 4" full range driver covering 500hz - 9000 hz) on
Isoacoustics Gaia feet: optional 3/4" bamboo cabinet; upgraded crossover components; stock Tang Band 8" woofers upgraded to
Eton Symphony (required modified porting); air motion transformer tweeters upgraded to the rare, out of production Japanese made
Fostex FT96-EX2 tweeters (there is a cheaper, lower performing Chinese made version); rewiring with
Stage III Concepts Aerostrand and Duelund tinned copper cable;
Bybee Quantum Clarifers on woofer and wideband driver magnets.
Modwright modified
Marantz SA8005 SACD/CD player with 1950's
Tungsol long black plate 5687 tubes, on last generation
Townshend Seismic Sink air platform,
Dalby Lignum Vitae feet, and
Salamander Archetype rack with custom isolation feet;
GEC U52 5U4G or
Sophia blue 274B rectifier in separate
Modwright PS 9.0 power supply, on
Acoustic System Top Line feet and custom isolation platform; Custom
Audio Magic Illusion Liquid Air umbilical between player and power supply.
Cable selection optimized for each individual component and the system:
Verastarr Grand Illusion II copper speaker cables;
Townshend Fractal F1 interconnects;
Verastarr Grand Illusion III High Current copper AC cable with AC connectors upgraded by Mike Powell to
Oyaide "Armored"
AP-004 and
AC-004, and
Lessloss Firewall 640X Entropic filter (ordering 2nd one) between wall and power conditioner;
Hemingway Z-Core Beta AC cable on Pathos amp;
Lessloss CMARC Entropic AC cable on modified Marantz SA8005;
Echole Omnia AC cable on Modwright PS 9.0 power supply.
Bybee Stealth Power Purifier AC conditioner with
Nordost Qk1 and Qv2 plugins; dedicated (
JPS Labs in wall wire) 20A line and breaker box;
Oyaide R-1 outlet with
WPC-Z;
Environmental Potentials EP-2050 and
EP-2750 on main panel;
Quantum Physics Noise Disrupters on power conditioner, Modwright power supply, and under Pathos amp; multiple
Akiko Tuning Sticks and
Byebee IQSE's; strategic chassis and parts damping with fo.Q damping material.
Details of my listening room acoustical treatment can be found here:
With the pandemic keeping me in the house much more than I'd like, I decided to remove, replace, retry, and validate all of the various tweaks (including acoustical treatments) I've added to my system/listening room over the years. My conclusion as a result of doing this over many months was...
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