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CD/SACD/DVDA - "Universal" Oppo model 970 disk player.
Laptop with way too much music w/Audio Quest Dragonfly DAC
Audio Research LS-7
"Old time" Quicksilver Monos - "8417's" with full-wave rectification (two 5AR4's) - and "modified" front-end.
Vintage AudioQuest cables (Type 4, Lapis)

Loudspeakers - custom/DIY:

Copy of Klipsch Cornwalls (ported bass enclosure) with TAD TD-2001 1-inch compression tweeters in a 2370 JBL horn and Lambda Acoustics TD15M woofers.

COMMUNITY M-200 2-inch compression midrange drivers - mounted in a "500-hz salad bowl" - a spherical tractrix horn sitting on top of the Cornwall copies.

Bob Crites first order passive crossover (700hz and 4khz) - uses stock Klipsch "autoformers" to knock down the very-sensitive 108 and 110dB/1m/2.83V tweets and mids to the 98dB woofs.

Estimated peak levels - high 90's to 100+ db at 15 feet.

I regard this system as "cheap and cheerful" - Speakers cost me less than $4,000. The rest under $1,500. The only "nn

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