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DerrickY’s System

I am in the Oakland area and welcome interested visitors.

Main listening system

Amplification:

• Air Tight ATM-3 tube monoblocks modified by Tom Tutay for main speakers, 1960s Mullard El34s
• Onkyo Grand Integra M-508 -to run Subwoofers

Preamp:

• Aloia Pst11.01 with Separate inductive power supply

Analog:

• Well Tempered Classic, Sumiko SHO med output MC
• PS Audio Phonolink

Digital:

• Audio Matiere Dialogue transport
• Sony CPD-x779es transport modified by APL
• VAC DAC 2 Mk 2 D/A converter
• Genesis Digital Lens

Speakers:

• Celestion Sl700 Special Editions
• Celestion System 6000 Subwoofers
• Celestion DLp6000 crossover

Power Conditioning:

• PS Audio p1000

Cabling:

• Straightwire,Virtual Dynamics,Kimber, Yamamoto,

Room Treatments:

• Shakti Holographs
• Argent RoomLens
• Michael Green Room Tunes

Living Room System 2

Amplification:

• Klimo Linnet Tube Monoblocks-70s Siemens El34s

Preamplification:

• Jeff Rowland Consanance w/ Phono Module

Analog:

• Michell GyroDec, Linn Akito 2 tonearm, Sumiko SHO Med-output MC
• Lazarus MC tube Step up

Digital:

• Sony Cpd-x707Es transport
• AudioLogic 34 D/a converter
• Genesis Digital Lens

Speakers:

• Michael Green Chameleon IIIs modified by Jason Serinus

Power Conditioning:

• Dedicated lines analog/digital/amplification/
• PS Audio P600

Cabling:

• Straight Wire Crescendo speaker, Virtuoso, Yamamoto

All Systems have Versasound Copper Damping Sheets, Connections CAIG
de-oxified, and Mapleshade Audio Silver contact enhanced.

Sorry for the long list, this is what 20 years of audio gear obesssion gets you.

You Know You’re a Crazy A’phile When….

You start buying capacitors for your speaker crossovers that are as large as a baseball and weigh a half-pound each!

These ClarityCap SA’s are for the midrange circuit of my Usher Dancer’s.

It’s the type of thing Alon might put in his Magico’s. (Actually, this part is a bit low-end for the Magico!)