Greetings and Thank You for providing a great place to share thoughts related to a shared passion of trying to recreate the live listening experience through recorded media and the equipment we use to get us there. I also enjoy cars, watches (my favorite I own is PAM 317 but original seadweller is right up there) golf and boating.
I have been involved for about 24 years starting from my first purchase at Lyric (Bryston 3B, B&W DM640, Sony CD555ES and Carver preamp). Still have the first 2 pieces.
currently i have 4 systems that get regular use
in my cabin I have:
ARC REF 40
ARC Ref 150
Wilson Duette on dedicated stand
ARC Ref DAC
Naim HDX-SSD with QNAP 559V2
transparent cabling
Russound distributed sound system with Rotel amps and B&W inwall speakers (6 zones)
main system(hybrid 2CH/HT)
Ayre KX-R
Linn LP12SE/EkosSE/Akiva/radikal
ARC Ref Phono 2SE
Vivaldi DAC/Clock/Upsampler(arrives 3/5)
Ref 250s
Ayre MX-R
Wilson Sasha (Alexia arrives in 2 weeks)
Naim HDX-SSD for media server with QNAP 559V2
Classe CT-SSP
Ayre DX-5
Runco Vistage 63HD with DHD4 Controller
Runco VX-11d projecor with DHD4 controller
Stewart motorized drop down screen
Wilson Center3 and suround2 speakers
2 JBL F212 subs
ARC DS450M-center
ARC DS225-Surround
transparent and vahalla cabling
HT goes through Ayre preamp in passthrough mode and typically uses the MX-Rs....for dedicated 2 Channel i switch to ARC 250s and only the Sashas are active. Ref Phono and DAC go directly into Ayre preamp
one other cool thing is that both Naim HDXs use Qnap-559v2 NAS with 4 1TB drives. the Qnap has remote replication feature so i setup the 2 NASs (located in main home and cabin) to talk to each other. When i rip or dowload a new CD/file at home....the music is automtically updated in the cabin....so all my music is avilable regardless of which house i am at. i am a big fan of Naim with respect to digital media server....and I am one of their beta testers. Some other cool features on the way soon...
Study
SME 20/3 TT/SME V arm/Titan i
ASR basis exclusive (new version)
Naim CD555/PS555DR
Naim NDS/PS555DR
Moon 850P preamp
Woo WES/Stax 009 (also have Omega V1 and V2 but 009s are much better, just very revealing of bad sources)
Family Room
Classe SSP-800,CDP-502, CA-2200, CA-3200
Thiel Powerpoints and SS2 sub
Runco 50" plasma
on the beach right now is the ARC Ref 5SE DAC8 and VS115 - tears
i look forward to learning from this group and sharing where i can. while i have a few new pieces of gear coming...i have been focused on building software collection both vinyl and digital.
I have been involved for about 24 years starting from my first purchase at Lyric (Bryston 3B, B&W DM640, Sony CD555ES and Carver preamp). Still have the first 2 pieces.
currently i have 4 systems that get regular use
in my cabin I have:
ARC REF 40
ARC Ref 150
Wilson Duette on dedicated stand
ARC Ref DAC
Naim HDX-SSD with QNAP 559V2
transparent cabling
Russound distributed sound system with Rotel amps and B&W inwall speakers (6 zones)
main system(hybrid 2CH/HT)
Ayre KX-R
Linn LP12SE/EkosSE/Akiva/radikal
ARC Ref Phono 2SE
Vivaldi DAC/Clock/Upsampler(arrives 3/5)
Ref 250s
Ayre MX-R
Wilson Sasha (Alexia arrives in 2 weeks)
Naim HDX-SSD for media server with QNAP 559V2
Classe CT-SSP
Ayre DX-5
Runco Vistage 63HD with DHD4 Controller
Runco VX-11d projecor with DHD4 controller
Stewart motorized drop down screen
Wilson Center3 and suround2 speakers
2 JBL F212 subs
ARC DS450M-center
ARC DS225-Surround
transparent and vahalla cabling
HT goes through Ayre preamp in passthrough mode and typically uses the MX-Rs....for dedicated 2 Channel i switch to ARC 250s and only the Sashas are active. Ref Phono and DAC go directly into Ayre preamp
one other cool thing is that both Naim HDXs use Qnap-559v2 NAS with 4 1TB drives. the Qnap has remote replication feature so i setup the 2 NASs (located in main home and cabin) to talk to each other. When i rip or dowload a new CD/file at home....the music is automtically updated in the cabin....so all my music is avilable regardless of which house i am at. i am a big fan of Naim with respect to digital media server....and I am one of their beta testers. Some other cool features on the way soon...
Study
SME 20/3 TT/SME V arm/Titan i
ASR basis exclusive (new version)
Naim CD555/PS555DR
Naim NDS/PS555DR
Moon 850P preamp
Woo WES/Stax 009 (also have Omega V1 and V2 but 009s are much better, just very revealing of bad sources)
Family Room
Classe SSP-800,CDP-502, CA-2200, CA-3200
Thiel Powerpoints and SS2 sub
Runco 50" plasma
on the beach right now is the ARC Ref 5SE DAC8 and VS115 - tears
i look forward to learning from this group and sharing where i can. while i have a few new pieces of gear coming...i have been focused on building software collection both vinyl and digital.
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