My little audio paradise...

Rotatoubib

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Raven AC with 10.5 tonearm, Lyra Etna, Thomas Mayer D3A silver phono stage, Mac Book with Audirvana, Dcs Debussy, Thomas Mayer 10Y silver transformers, Thomas Mayer 45/45 Tango amps , Mezzo Avantgarde, Kondo KslVzII interconnects, Ocellia speaker cables, PS Audio 10
 

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Congrats on a lovely system. I am a big fan of the Etna.
Pradeep
 
Thanks! Seems that Lyra Etna is well suited to Raven AC and arm, is it your feeling too?
 
Thank you
 
Now that is a beautiful system! I've not heard of the Thomas Mayer products, at least I don't remember knowing about them. I think a little googlin' is in order.
 
Thanks for sharing your lovely system - that is alot of speaker there! I would love to hear the combination of the Etna, the Thomas Mayer phono, pre and 45's and the horns. Very special, I wager.

I hadn't heard of Thomas Mayer - thank you for showing it to us all, and bonne écoute ....(I hope goggle translate got it right!).
 
Hello Steve, you can see his blog: VinylSavor.
 
Hello Andrew. If you travel to South France, let me know:)
 
I don't think the word "little" should ever be used with such a grand system :). Makes my room look like an outdoor shack....

Great job.
 
Thanks Amir!
 
Thanks Bob
 
Thank you dear colleague ! I am an interventional cardiologist ( nobody s perfect ! )
 
Very elegant looking system. Thanks for posting.
 
Hello everyone! Everything has changed since 2015, even my flat! After a crush during Munich Highend 2024 for Alsyvox speakers, I purchased the Botticelli X. By the way, thanks to the expertise of the Anamighty Sound team, made up of François Saint Gérand and Jean Christophe Coulaud, a new turntable arrived, the CSport TAT2 with its tangential arm, and a MSL Diamond cartridge, Phasemation EA1200 phono amplifier with dual power supply, perfectly installed and above all tuned with great care. Also the XACT S1 Evo server with N1 switch, PLink fiber optic connection to the Playback Design MPD8. The MA-5000 monaural Phasemation amplifiers recently arrived, in perfect harmony with the Nagra HD.
Thanks to Anamighty Sound, I've also discovered Hemingway cables, which are remarkable for the energy they can transmit: the interconnect are Z-Core beta, and I'm currently testing their USB cable, which is impressively transparent.
We're lucky to have good professionals who are also music lovers, and who know perfectly well how to set up a turntable, but also how to guide their customers towards quality equipment they wouldn't necessarily have thought of. Well done!
PS : Botticelli X external crossover with woofer, medium and super tweeter fine tuning
 

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can you come pare the two tables you’ve owned or are the systems too different?
 

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