Dear all,
yes this sounds great! Lets proceed and make this comparison.
There were some questions regarding the system.
Lets start with the room. It is 5,12 m width, 6,98 m long and 2,8 m height. This gives a fairly good distribution of room modes. The entire room was build from scratch just to serve as listening room.
Room acoustic (RT 60) is really flat at 0,38 s (not overdamped) in all third octave bands. Only below 50 Hz the reverberation time increases to 0.8 s.
There is a lot of diffusors included. Some are QRD types (based on the prime number 7). A very special plain 2D diffusor is located behing the speaker.
Powerline: Oyaide Distribution block, Vertex AQ coming soon
Powercables, IC, Speakercables: Echole Obsession and Vertex AQ soon
Rack: Special rack made from tankwood (similar to our speaker cabinet)
Tube Amps: Absolare Pure Preamp and Mastersound 845 Monoblock Signature Edition (highly tweaked)
Solid State Amp: GTE Trinity AMP
This amp outperforms the Mastersound easily. It has balanced inputs. So I would prefer to use this amp directly without any preamp.
Harmonix, Vertex AQ and Steinmusic Tuning Feets
7 Lessloss Blackbodies
2 Steinmusic H2a and 2 Steinmusic H2b (see stereotimes for review)
Steinmusic E-Pads and Magic Stones.
Kaiser Kawero Speaker (with some new additional features we are just testing)
PC Frontend with xxhighend memory software player (www.xxhighend.nl)
Weiss Vesta Firewire to SP/DIF converter
M2Tech Hiface USB to SP/DIF converter
and a good turntable (Kuzma Stabi XL4 with 4 point arm)
I will check my schedule and appointments but I think we are not able to perform this before High end show in Munich.
A good friend is willing to send a burned in DCS Scarlatti for that event.
Best regards
Rainer Weber
