Humbly submitting my room and system. The room is 16’ x 24’ x coffered ceiling max height 12’. I have the speakers on the long wall offset towards one corner. Pretty happy with it. Since these pics were taken, I have moved the PS Audio P10 to support only the front end and installed a Shunyata Denali 6000s/v2 for the amps.
Ooh! I was just talking about SF Stradivari w another audiophile last week. They were on my final shortlist, w ML Prodigies, about 13 years ago. Looks like they made yours too. And won.
I have gone through a fairly major change this summer. Former front end (McIntosh C1100 pre / Esoteric K-03X and Cybershaft OP17 clock) totally gone and replaced with a Bricasti M21. McIntosh MC2301 amplifiers have been replaced with Bricasti M28s. I have added a Shunyata Sigma V2 XC from wall to my Denali6KS2 and am waiting on a pit of Shunyata alpha v2 NR power cords for my M28s.
My system has significantly more resolution with zero fatigue. I love it.
I have gone through a fairly major change this summer. Former front end (McIntosh C1100 pre / Esoteric K-03X and Cybershaft OP17 clock) totally gone and replaced with a Bricasti M21. McIntosh MC2301 amplifiers have been replaced with Bricasti M28s. I have added a Shunyata Sigma V2 XC from wall to my Denali6KS2 and am waiting on a pit of Shunyata alpha v2 NR power cords for my M28s.
My system has significantly more resolution with zero fatigue. I love it.
I had the good fortune to travel to Bluffton SC last Saturday all day and into the next and get to meet 2 audionuts that I've know for
some time remotely on various forums and finally got to meet in person.
Craig was one of them; his system and room was one of the single most comfortable places to listen and very natural, great sounding system I've had the pleasure of hearing. Musical and realistic as descriptors are an understatement. I thoroughly enjoyed everything we listened to of a gamut of different musical styles, recordings, etc....
It's a fantastic system, images incredibly well, has great mids, bottom to top extension, naturalness to the sound and definitely
has the "you are there with the performers" experience to it. Exceptionally well done and beautiful system!
Killer pairing of Sonus Faber Stradivari, Bricasti M28 monos and their top DACD with a killer server and streaming setup with both high quality PCM as well as native DSD material in abundance....amazing!
A word on bass/subwoofer integration: Craig has a true master's touch in this regard; easily one of only a handful of perfect subwoofer
integration jobs I've ever heard! Seamless does not begin to describe it.
Thank you Craig,...you've put together one hell of a system!!!
A couple of years ago at Jason Lord's The Source AV in Torrance, California, I found in one of Jason's smaller demo rooms Stradivari Homage loudspeakers
driven by a McIntosh tube preamplifier and power amplifiers. Vinyl was spun by a Dr. Feickert Woodpecker turntable.
I had never heard your speakers before. Once I discovered this system and I put an LP (Stevie Ray Vaughn’s Couldn’t Stand the Weather) on the turntable I spent by far the most time listening to music in this room. The sound was transparent, dynamic, emotionally-involving and natural!.
Humbly submitting my room and system. The room is 16’ x 24’ x coffered ceiling max height 12’. I have the speakers on the long wall offset towards one corner. Pretty happy with it. Since these pics were taken, I have moved the PS Audio P10 to support only the front end and installed a Shunyata Denali 6000s/v2 for the amps.
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Don’t put your stuff as humble lol looks really good to me enjoy. Looks alone is great. Too many seem to put down compared to multi million setups. enjoy
I went through a fairly significant overhaul of my audio room. Not only equipment but the room itself since July of 2021. My wife decided we needed another house so I got a new audio room. The good news, it’s bigger. The bad news, it’s almost square. ~22’ x 22’ x 10. With some consultation from friends, SCAudiophile et al and industry setup guru, Jim Smith, I have set things up at a 45 degree angle.
Recent equipment changes/additions include swapping my Stradivaris for new Kharma dB11-S and my souped up Win 10 PC for an Antipodes K-50 server. A few new PCs and a Nordost Valhalla 2 AES/EBU cable.
I have also not reconnected my JL Audio CR-1 crossover or my 2 Fathom F113 v2 subs.
Great thread, Craig. Thank you for sharing your changes. I like the speaker location in free space and it looks like they have zero toe in. I’ve heard great things about karma speakers. I think I also recognize the blue tape center line reference that Jim Smith uses when setting up speakers.
I would be very interested in reading about your approach, how you describe the differences between the two systems and what you hear.
@Macattack Craig, the room looks fantastic in the new paint and finish scheme. Congratulations on the
upgrade to the Kharma's, the K-50, the new digital cable(s) and all else!
Based upon how great your prior config sounded in that room before the upgrades with the SF Strads (which I've
never heard sound as expansive and that level of precise imaging that went on forever) and your prior house, and what you wrote above,
I am looking forward to the next time I can hit the road to Bluffton and hear all the results.
The sheer fact (given how good it sound last time with subs) that you've not put the subs and the xover back in
after all these weeks speaks volumes. I cannot wait to hear it.
Congratulations!!! Looking forward to seeing you and also heading across town to see Jeff when I can make it to the coast.
