RobertD’s System

General location:

Digital Sources:

Analog Sources:

Analogue Excellence Turntable, with external motor and vacuum
Micro Seki Arm – Denon 103D (The mass of the arm’s headshell was modified to support the 103D properly)
Grado Arm – Grado Signature X Cartridge (I’m still using the original Grado cartridges from when Joe Grado ran the company. I purchased a stock of them and I am on my second to the last one now.)
Isolation platform of my own design

Preamp:

Spatial Coherence TVA-1H, Dual Mono (I was the chief engineer at Spatial; this is a one off model which never made it into production)
Conrad Johnson PV10AL with factory installed upgrades and phono amplifier
Parasound P/PH850 preamplifier
Amber Electronics AV40-4 (I used to consult for Amber and this model is my design but not in production.)

Power Amplifiers:

Twin Conrad Johnson Premier Fives Monoblocks, 200W ea, (These amplifiers use EL34 tubes)
Six Amber Stereo 70s, Mark V Monoblock Editions, 240W ea
Marantz MM9340 450W Quad Channel, Class D

Speakers:

Shahinian Diapasons, felted at my request (Richard tells me this is the only pair in existence that are felted)
A pair of Shahinian Stereo Double Eagles subwoofers
Cambridge Soundworks Towers
Cambridge Soundworks Center Channel
Parasound Towers
Parasound Bookshelf Speakers

Cables:

Other Good Stuff:

Onkyo Home Theater Receiver, TX-DS898 Dolby 7.1
Amber Model 7 FM Tuner
Dahlquist Crossover (Actually, this is only the chassis as I installed a crossover of my own design)
A pair of Shahinian Subwoofer Vacuum Tube Interfaces
Stax Electrostatic Headphones
AC Mains filtering of my own design
Atlanta Speaker Stands, filled with sand, for the Diapasons
The stereo system and home theater system is cross wired, so we have a dedicated home theater system and a dedicated stereo system with inputs from both.

Can members visit?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008 Member's Systems

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